I have posted updated my schedule to reflect the students have signed up for presentations. Remember a Track A and B student will give two presentations and a Track C will give one. You should see your name on the list below. A few students signed up for essays already taken by another student and I have asked them to sign up for an available presentation on the Discussions page. Double check the list below to ensure your name appears as you have requested. If you have not signed up, do so asap. You are now a week behind in signing up. I will also update this syllabus schedule as our syllabus in the Content section.
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Date
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Assignment
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Date
Closes
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Seminar
Presenter
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One
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Monday,
August 27
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Course officially opens.
Introductions, Syllabus, Course Expectations and Questions
Things to have accomplished:
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Read and print the syllabus
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Select a
presentation(s),
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Read, contact, and select
a service learning partner,
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Post a brief
introduction and reply to another introduction saying “hello” to another
student.
Where on D2L?
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Syllabus >> Content
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Presentation List
and Sign Up >> Discussion
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Introduction
>> Discussion
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Posting my service learning partner choice >> Discussion
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Friday,
August 31
Last Day to
Drop Classes
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Instructor
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Two
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Monday, September 3
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Introduction to Ethics and Applied Ethics
I will post a lecture on D2L with two concluding
questions. Read my presentation and
listen to my instructions and post a reply on the discussion board.
Read the following essay from chapter five:
1. John Stuart Mill: On Liberty
Read the following essays from chapter eight:
2. John Hospers: What Libertarianism Is
3. Kai Nielsen: A Moral Case for
Socialism
If possible: view one of
the following films:
Being John Malkovich (1999)
Blade Runner (1982)
The Island (2005)
Total Recall (1990)
V for Vendetta (2005)
Review Instructor’s
presentation/lecture and respond to the two questions I have posted.
Service Learning
(hereafter SL) Reflection Paper One Due: Self-Evaluation
Where on D2L?
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Lecture >>
Content
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Posting Responses to
Lecture >> Discussion.
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Reflection Paper >>
TBD
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Friday,
September 7
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Monday,
September 10
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PART ONE: LIFE-AND-DEATH ISSUES
CHAPTER 1 ABORTION
Reading and Presentations:
4. Mary Anne Warren: On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion
5. Don Marquis: Why Abortion is Immoral
6. Judith Jarvis Thomson: A Defense of Abortion
7. Patrick Lee and Robert P. George: The Wrong of Abortion.
8. Margaret Olivia Little: The Morality of Abortion
9. Justice Harry A Blackmun: Majority Opinion in Roe v.Wade
Celebration One
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Friday,
September 14
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1.
Warren: Sharita Benson
2.
Marquis:
3.
Thomson: Maja
Ferrell
4.
Lee and George:
5.
Little: Courtney
Schwarz
6.
Blackmun:
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Four
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Monday,
September 17
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CHAPTER 2 EUTHANASIA AND PHYSICIAN-ASSISTED SUICIDE
Assignments:
Reading and Presentations
10. James Rachels: Active and Passive
Euthanasia
11. Daniel Callahan: Killing and Allowing
to Die
12. Dan W. Brock: Voluntary Active
Euthanasia
13. Stephen G. Potts: Objections to the
Institutionalisation of Euthanasia
14. David T. Watts and Timothy Howell: Assisted
Suicide Is Not Voluntary Active Euthanasia
15. Franklin G. Miller and Diane E. Meier:
Voluntary Death: A Comparison of Feminist Dehydration and Physician-Assisted
Suicide
Celebration Two
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Friday,
September 21
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7.
Rachels:
8.
Callahan: Amanda
Hamnmell
9.
Brock:
10.
Potts:
11.
Watts and Howell
12.
Miller and Meier:
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Five
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Monday,
September 24
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CHAPTER 3 THE DEATH PENALTY
Reading and Presentations
16.
Stephen Nathanson: An Eye an Eye
17.
Louis P. Pojman: Deterrence and
the Death Penalty
18.
Jeffrey Reiman: Common Sense, the Deterrent Effect of the Death
Penalty, and the Best Bet Argument
19.
David Dolinko: Procedural Arguments Against the Death Penalty
Celebration
Three
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Friday,
September 28
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13.
Nathanson
14.
Pojman: Isis Portillo
15.
Reiman:
16.
Dolinko:
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Six
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Monday,
October 1
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PART TWO: LIBERTY ISSUES
CHAPTER 4 SEXUAL MORALITY AND SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
Reading and Presentations:
20.
Thomas A. Mappes: Sexual Morality and the Concept of Using Another
Person
21.
Howard Klepper; Sexual Exploitation and the Value of the Person
22.
Robin West: The Harms of Consensual Sin
23.
John Corvino: Why Shouldn’t Tommy and Jim Have Sex? A Defense of
Homosexuality
24.
Maggie Gallagher: What Marriage Is For: Children Need Mothers and
Fathers
25.
Jonathan Rauch: For Better or Worse: The Case for Gay (and Straight)
Marriage
Celebration Four
SL Reflection Paper Two Due: Power
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Friday,
October 5
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17.
Mappes: Maggie McDonald
18.
Klepper: Lindsey
Hanson
19.
West:
20.
Corvino: rshawnda Wallace
21.
Gallagher: Lindsey
Hanson
22.
Rauch: Johnny Green
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Seven
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Monday,
October 8
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CHAPTER 5 PORNOGRAPHY, HATE SPEECH, AND CENSORSHIP
Reading and Presentations:
26. The Attorney General’s Commission on
Pornography: The question of Harm
27. Mark R. Wicclair: Feminism,
Pornography, and Censorship
28. Susan J. Brison: “The Price We
Pay?” Pornography and Harm
29. Clarence R. Lawrence III: Racist
Speech as the Functional Equivalent of Fighting Words
30. Andrew Altman: Liberalism and Campus
Hate Speech; A Philosophical Examination
Celebration Five
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Friday,
October 12
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23.
Commission:
24.
Wicclair
25.
Brison: Ronald Wagner
26.
Lawrence:
27.
Altman:
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Eight
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Monday,
October 15
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CHAPTER 6 DRUG CONTROL, ADDICTION, AND MEDICAL USE
Reading and Presentations:
31. Thomas S. Szasz: The Ethics of
Addiction
32. Robert E. Goodin: Permissible
Paternalism: Saving Smokers from Themselves
33. Ethan A. Nadelmann: The Case for
Legalization
34. James Q Wilson: Against the
Legalization of Drugs
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Friday,
October 19
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28.
Szasz:
Amanda Hammell
29.
Goodin: Ron Wagner
30.
Nadelmann: Adam
Fairbanks
31.
Wilson: Shewit
Ghebrezghi
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Nine
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Monday,
October 22
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CHAPTER 6 DRUG CONTROL, ADDICTION, AND MEDICAL USE Continued
35. Daniel Shapiro: Addiction and Drug
Policy
36. M. Hayry: Prescribing Cannabis:
Freedom, Autonomy and Values
37. Peter J. Cohen: Medical Marijuana,
Compassionate Use, and Public Policy: Expert Opinion or Vox Populi?
Celebration Six
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Friday,
October 26
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32.
Shapiro:
Shewit Ghebrezghi
33.
Hayry: Adam Fairbanks
34.
Cohen: Teresa Ondara
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Ten
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Monday,
October 29
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PART THREE: GLOBAL ISSUES
CHAPTER 7 TERRORISM, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND TORTURE
Reading and Presentations:
38. Stephen Nathanson: Can Terrorism Be
Morally Justified?
39. Alison M. Jaggar: What is Terrorism,
Why Is It Wrong, and Could It Ever Be Morally Permissible?
40. David Luban: The War on Terrorism and
the End of Human Rights
41. Alan M. Dershowitz: Should the Ticking
bomb Terrorist Be Tortured?
42. Charles A. Pfaff: Toward an Ethics of
Detention and Interrogation: Consent and Limits
Celebration Seven
SL Reflection Paper Three
Due: Diversity & Morality
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Friday,
November 2
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35.
Nathanson:
36.
Jaggar:
37.
Luban: Niko Georgiades
38.
Dershowitz:
39.
Pfaff:
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Eleven
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Monday,
November 5
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CHAPTER 8 WORLD HUNGER, POVERTY, ECONOMIC JUSTICE, AND
INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY
Reading and Presentations:
43. Garrett Hardin: Living on a Lifeboat
44. Peter Singer: The Singer Solution to
World Poverty
45. Christopher Heath Wellman: Famine
Relief: Negative Duties
46. Amartya Sen: Property and Hunger
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Friday,
November 9
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40.
Hardin: Beverly Trotter
41.
Singer: Isis Portillo
42.
Welman:
43.
Sen: Bri Felmlee
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Twelve
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Monday,
November 12
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CHAPTER 8 WORLD HUNGER, POVERTY, ECONOMIC JUSTICE, AND
INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY Continued
47. Thomas Pogge: Two Reflection on the
First United Nations Millennium Development Goal
48. Max Borders: Western Ethical
Imperialism?
49. United Trauma Relief: A Consensus
Statement on Sweatshop Abuse
50. Matt Zwolinski: Sweatshops
Celebration Eight
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Friday,
November 16
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44.
Pogge:
45.
Borders:
46.
UTR: Niko Georgiades
47.
Zwolinski :Teresa
Ondara
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Thirteen
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Monday,
November 19
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CHAPTER 9 ANIMALS
Reading and Presentations:
51. Peter Singer: All Animals Are Equal
52. Tom Regan: The Case for Animal Rights
53. Carl Cohen: the Case for the Use of
Animals in Biomedical Research
54. Mary Ann Warren: Human and Animal
Rights Compared
55. David DeGrazia: Moral Vegetarianism
Reconsidered
Celebration Nine
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Friday,
November 23
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48.
Singer:
Maja Ferrell
49.
Regan: Courtney
Schwartz
50.
Cohen:
51.
Warren: Maggie McDonald
52.
DeGrazia: Johnny Green
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Fourteen
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Monday,
November 26
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CHAPTER 10 THE ENVIRONMENT AND GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE
Reading and Presentations:
56. Williams F. Baxter: People or Penguins:
The Case for Optimal Pollution
57. Jan Narveson: For Free market
Environmentalism
58. Tony Smith: Against Free Market Environmentalism
59. Aldo Leopold: The Land Ethic
60. Bernard E. Rollin: Environmental
Ethics
61. Bill Devall and George Sessions: Deep
Ecology
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Friday,
November 30
Last day to withdraw
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53.
Baxter:
54.
Narveson:
55.
Smith: Bri Felmlee
56.
Leopold:
57.
Rollin: Jacob Fehr
58.
Devall and
Sessions: Jacob Fehr
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Fifteen
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Monday
December 3
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CHAPTER
10 THE ENVIRONMENT AND GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE Continued
62. Ramachandra Guha: Radical American Environmentalism and
Wilderness Preservation: A Third World Critique
63. John Broome: the Ethics of Climate Change
64. Mark Sagoff: Controlling Global Climate: The Debate over
Pollution Trading
65. James Garvey: “We’re All Eco-Warriors Now After World Leaders
Failed us at Copenhagen”
Celebration Ten
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Friday,
December 7
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59.
Guha:
60.
Broome:
61.
Sagoff:
62.
Garvey:
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Sixteen
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Monday,
December 10
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All 30 Service Learning hours completed and due
SL Reflection Public Address and Paper
Four Due: Change
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Friday,
December 14
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Seventeen
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Monday,
December 17
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Final Exams: No final exam for this course.
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Friday,
December 21
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