Oct 4 Personal Identity John Perry, (*p.322-342) A Dialogue on Personal Identity… Oct 6 Midterm Oct 9 - 13 FALL BREAK Week 8 Free Will Oct 16 Free Will: Hard Determinism and Libertarianism Roderick M. Chisholm, (*p. 387) Human Freedom and the Self Peter van Inwagen, (*p. 395) The Power of Rational Beings… Oct 18 Free Will: Soft Determinism David Hume, (*p. 407-417) Of Liberty and Necessity Oct 20 Thought Experiment Friday (6) Paper 2 due by 11:59pm Week 9 Ethics: Utilitarianism and Kantian Ethics Oct 23 Jeremy Bentham, (*p. 480-483) The Principle of Utility John Stuart Mill, (*p. 483-499) Utilitarianism Optional: Friedrich Nietzsche, On The Genealogy of Morals (PDF). Read First Essay (1-17). Immanuel Kant, 527-543) Oct 25 Groundwork of the Metaphysics…(*p. J.D. Velleman, (*p. 544) A Brief Introduction to Kantian Ethics Oct 27 Thought Experiment Friday (7) The Trolley Problem (*p. 883) Ducking Harm and Sacrificing Others (*p. 884) Week 10 Ethics: Virtue Ethics and Social Contract Theory Oct 30 Aristotle, (*p. 568-583) Nicomachean Ethics
Oct 4 Oct 6 Personal Identity John Perry, A Dialogue on Personal Identity… (*p.322-342) Midterm Oct 9 - 13 FALL BREAK Week 8 Oct 16 Oct 18 Oct 20 Free Will Free Will: Hard Determinism and Libertarianism Roderick M. Chisholm, Human Freedom and the Self (*p. 387) Peter van Inwagen, The Power of Rational Beings… (*p. 395) Free Will: Soft Determinism David Hume, Of Liberty and Necessity (*p. 407-417) Thought Experiment Friday (6) Paper 2 due by 11:59pm Week 9 Oct 23 Oct 25 Oct 27 Ethics: Utilitarianism and Kantian Ethics Jeremy Bentham, The Principle of Utility (*p. 480-483) John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism (*p. 483-499) Optional: Friedrich Nietzsche, On The Genealogy of Morals (PDF). Read First Essay (1-17). Immanuel Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysics…(*p. 527-543) J.D. Velleman, A Brief Introduction to Kantian Ethics (*p. 544) Thought Experiment Friday (7) The Trolley Problem (*p. 883) Ducking Harm and Sacrificing Others (*p. 884) Week 10 Oct 30 Ethics: Virtue Ethics and Social Contract Theory Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics (*p. 568-583)
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