human lives are at stake, it is always right to act in a way that will lead ‘Where many to the least loss of life.’ Discuss. Is there an ethically significant difference between active and passive euthanasia? If not, why not? If so, what is it? Should we expect there to be, or not to be, right answers to moral questions? II. EPISTEMOLOGY Thursdays, Weeks 1-5 Week 1: What is knowledge? 23 (1966). Edmund Gettier, “Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?,” Analysis of Linda Zagzebski, “The Inescapability Gettier Problems,” Philosophical Quarterly 44:174 (1994). Week 2: Skepticism Descartes, Meditations 1 and 2 (various editions, Meditations on First Philosophy, including online: ) G.E. Moore, of an in his (Allen & “Proof External World,” Philosophical Papers Unwin, 1959). Reprinted in ed. Jaegwon Kim and Epistemology: An Anthology, Ernest Sosa (Blackwell, 2000). Week 3: Relativism Paul Boghossian, (Oxford, 2006), p. 1-9, 58-94. Fear of Knowledge, Study Skills Session: How to Write a Philosophy Essay Week 4: Peer disagreement Thomas Kelly, Epistemic Significance of “The Disagreement,” Oxford Studies in ed. John Hawthorne and Tamar Gendler (Oxford, 2005). May be Epistemology, available at: Optional secondary reading:
‘Where many human lives are at stake, it is always right to act in a way that will lead to the least loss of life.’ Discuss. Is there an ethically significant difference between active and passive euthanasia? If not, why not? If so, what is it? Should we expect there to be, or not to be, right answers to moral questions? II. EPISTEMOLOGY Thursdays, Weeks 1-5 Week 1: What is knowledge? Edmund Gettier, “Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?,” Analysis 23 (1966). Linda Zagzebski, “The Inescapability of Gettier Problems,” Philosophical Quarterly 44:174 (1994). Week 2: Skepticism Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy, Meditations 1 and 2 (various editions, including online: ) G.E. Moore, “Proof of an External World,” in his Philosophical Papers (Allen & Unwin, 1959). Reprinted in Epistemology: An Anthology, ed. Jaegwon Kim and Ernest Sosa (Blackwell, 2000). Week 3: Relativism Paul Boghossian, Fear of Knowledge, (Oxford, 2006), p. 1-9, 58-94. Study Skills Session: How to Write a Philosophy Essay Week 4: Peer disagreement Thomas Kelly, “The Epistemic Significance of Disagreement,” Oxford Studies in Epistemology, ed. John Hawthorne and Tamar Gendler (Oxford, 2005). May be available at: Optional secondary reading: