Everything below is subject to change. Please ask me or other classmates if you have any questions about the schedule or if something isn’t in the Dropbox. The asterisks indicate non- required reading. Non-asterisked material is just relevant media and stuff. All readings are to be completed before class, and you must have some way to refer to the text in class (preferably by printing them out beforehand and bringing them).

§1. Introductory Material & Logic

Aug 26
Pryor — <http://www.jimpryor.net/teaching/vocab/index.html>
Stokes– <https://theconversation.com/no-youre-not-entitled-to-your-opinion-9978>

Sade – Dialogue Between a Priest and a Dying Man

§2. God

Sept 09
Plato – Euthyphro
Anslem – The Ontological Argument

Malcom – Response to Anselm

§3. Existence

Sept 16
Parfit – Why Anything? Why This? Swinburne – Response to Parfit

§4. Knowledge

Sept. 23
Gettier – Is Justified True Belief Knowledge? Zagzebski – Skepticism
Fricker – Hermeneutical Injustice

§5. Love

Sept. 30
Jaggar – Love and Knowledge

bell hooks – All About Love

§6. Minds and Self-Consciousness

Oct. 07
Dennett – Where am I?
Perry – Problem of the Essential Indexical

§7. Meaning and Absurdity

Oct. 14
Nagel – The Absurd
Beauvoir – Ethics of Ambiguity

§8. Death and Immortality

Oct. 21
Nagel – Death
Rosenbaum – How to Be Dead and Not Care Larkin – Aubade

§9. Aesthetics

Oct. 28
Widdows – A Duty to Be Beautiful?
Eaton – What’s Wrong With the (Female) Nude?

§10. Ethics

Nov. 04
Thompson – The Trolley Problem Nozick – The Experience Machine

§11. Metaethics

Nov. 11
Kant – Fact of Reason passage
Nietzsche — On the Genealogy of Morals excerpt

§12. Justice and Race

Nov. 18
Rawls – The Veil of Ignorance Mills – Through a Glass, Whitely

§13. Animals and the Environment

Dec. 02
Singer – All Animals are Equal
Kapua’ala Sporat – An Indiginous People’s Right

§14. Economics and Political Freedom

Dec. 09
Petit – TBD
Love – Freedom from the Market Love – Socialism and Freedom Course review

Dec. 16

 

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