Welcome to Introduction to Ethics (Phi 2600 section 090)!
Here you will find syllabus, extra reading materials not in the text book and class, and lecture notes.
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Introduction to Philosophy
Gaura Rader
Course Overview
- Home
- About
- Writing a Philosophy Essay
- Some General Tips for writing a Philosophy Paper
- More good advice on writing a philosophy paper
- Even More Good Advice About Writing a Philosophy Paper
- The Elements of Style by Strunk and White
- Sample Essays
- Logic for Intro to Philosophy: Deductive Reasoning, Validity, and Soundness
- Essay Grading Rubric
- How to Cite in a Philosophy Paper (MLA)
- Introduction to Ethics (2016)
- Syllabus and Course Overview
- Week 1: Reason and Morality
- Week 2: Culture, Religion, and Morality
- Week 3: Moral Emotions and Moral Philosophy
- Week 4: The Challenge of Egoism
- Week 5: The Enlightenment and Social Contract Theory
- Week 6: Kantian Ethics
- Week 7: Utilitarianism
- Week 8: Communism, Socialism, and Democratic Socialism
- Week 9: Egalitarianism
- Week 10: Libertarianism
- Week 11: Abortion and Animal Rights
- Week 12: Race and Criminal Justice
- Week 13: Sex and Marriage
- Week 14: War, Global Poverty, and the Environment
- Week 15: Looking Ahead to Future Generations of Humankind
- Introduction to Ethics (Hocking College)
- Week 1: Introduction
- Week 2: The Science of Morality
- Week 3: Philosophy and Morality
- Week 4: Social Contract Theory
- Week 5 : Kantian Ethics
- Week 6 : Utilitarianism
- Week 7: Marxism
- Week 8: Egalitarianism
- Week 9: Libertarianism
- Week 10: Abortion and Animal Rights
- Week 11: Criminal Justice
- Week 12: Racism and the #BlackLivesMatter Movement
- Week 13: Feminism and the #MeToo Movement
- Week 14: Sex and Marriage
- Week 15: Climate Change
- Week 16: Is Utopia Possible?
- Introduction to Philosophy: Ethics
- Lesson 1 Introduction
- Lesson 2: Utilitarianism
- Lecture 3 Notes (Contractarianism/Hobbesian Social Contract Theory)
- Lecture 4 Notes (Contractualism/Kantian Ethics)
- Lecture 5 Notes: Judith Jarvis Thomson and Don Marquis
- Lecture 6 Notes (Warren and Singer)
- Lecture 7 (Tooley and English)
- Lecture 8 (Norcross and Regan)
- Lecture 9 (Machan and Cohen)
- Lecture 10 (Rawls and Nozick)
- Lecture 11 (Singer)
- Lecture 12 (Occupy the Future)
- Final Exam Review
- Course Readings
- Essay 1
- Essay 2
- Introduction to Philosophy: Metaphysics and Epistemology
- Part 1 – Plato
- Euthyphro: Summary
- Euthyphro: Dialogue
- Euthyphro: Notes
- Apology: Summary
- Apology: Dialogue
- Apology: Notes
- Crito: Summary
- Crito: Dialogue
- Crito: Notes
- Phaedo: Summary
- Phaedo: Dialogue
- Phaedo: Notes
- Gorgias: Summary
- Gorgias: Dialogue
- Gorgias: Notes
- Plato’s Allegory of the Cave
- Allegory of the Cave Notes
- Part 2 – Philosophy of Religion: Does God Exist?
- SEP – The Cosmological Argument
- The No Infinite Regress Argument
- The Contingency Argument
- Russell and Copleston Debate
- The Inductive Argument
- Overview of Design Arguments
- SEP: Design Arguments
- Hume Reading Intro and Notes
- Paley Reading Intro and Notes
- Behe Reading Intro and Notes
- Kitcher Reading Intro and Notes
- SEP: The Ontological Argument
- Ontological Argument Notes
- IEP: The Problem of Evil
- Dostoyevsky’s Rebellion Chapter from The Brothers Karamazov
- Rebellion Notes
- Mackie and Swinburne Reading Notes and Intro
- SEP: Pascal’s Wager
- Pascal’s Wager Notes
- Part 3 – Philosophy of Mind: Does the Soul Exist?
- SEP: Mind-Body Dualism
- Parallelism and Occasionalism
- SEP: Mind-Body Dualism Notes
- Foster and Churchland Notes
- Physicalism: Mind Brain Identity Theory (Type Identity Theory)
- Smart and Place Notes
- Multiple Realizability and Functionalism
- Token Identity Theory and Token Physicalism
- Searle Notes
- Jackson Notes
- Chalmers Notes
- Part 4 – Skepticism and The Problem of the External World: Is the world real or an Illusion?
- Part 5 – Metaethics: Are there objective moral facts?
- Part 1 – Plato
- PHI 2600.090 (Fall B)
- Syllabus
- Lesson 1 Lecture Notes
- Immanuel Kant – What is Enlightenment?
- Lesson 2 Lecture Notes
- Lesson 3 Lecture Notes
- Lesson 4 Lecture Notes (Kantian Ethics part I)
- Lesson 5 Lecture Notes (Kantian Ethics part II)
- Allen Wood – Kantian Ethics (excerpts)
- Lesson 6 Lecture Notes (Social Contract Theory par I)
- Lesson 7 Lecture Notes (Social Contract Theory part II)
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau – The Social Contract
- Lesson 8 Lecture Notes (Applied Ethics part 1)
- Lesson 9 Lecture Notes (Applied Ethics part II)
- Peter Singer – Unsanctifying Human Life
- Mary Anne Warren – On the Legal and Moral Status of Abortion
- Lesson 10 Lecture Notes (Applied Ethics part III)
- Lesson 11 Lecture Notes (Metaethics)
- Reagan – The Case for Animal Rights
- Lesson 12 Lecture Notes (Political Philosophy)
- John Rawls – A Theory of Justice (excerpts)
- Robert Nozick – Anarchy, State, Utopia
- Essay 1
- Essay 2
- Essay 3
- Cumulative Final Review
- Cumulative Final
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