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.
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 (2020)
- Unit 1: Introduction
- Unit 2: The Science of Morality
- Unit 3: Philosophy and Morality
- Unit 4: Social Contract Theory
- Unit 5 : Kantian Ethics
- Unit 6 : Utilitarianism
- Unit 7: Marxism
- Unit 8: Egalitarianism
- Unit 9: Libertarianism
- Unit 10: Abortion and Animal Rights
- Unit 11: Criminal Justice
- Unit 12: Racism and the #BlackLivesMatter Movement
- Unit 13: Feminism and the #MeToo Movement
- Unit 14: Sex and Marriage
- Unit 15: Climate Change
- Unit 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
