Day |
Date |
Topic |
Assigned
Reading |
Notes |
Tu |
Sep
8 |
Introduction/Logic |
Rachels,
Ch
1 |
HW1
Assigned |
THEORETICAL ETHICS |
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Th |
Sep
10 |
Utilitarianism | Rachels,
Ch
7 Bentham, Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation, (excerpt). |
|
Tu |
Sep
15 |
Utilitarianism | Rachels,
Ch
8 Mill, Utilitarianism, (excerpt). |
HW1
Due |
Th |
Sep
17 |
Utilitarianism/Kant(?) | Begin
reading
Rachels, Ch 9 |
HW2
Assigned |
Tu |
Sep
22 |
Kant |
Rachels, Ch 9 |
HW2
Due |
Th |
Sep
24 |
Kant |
Rachels, Ch 10 |
|
Tu |
Sep
29 |
Social
Contract |
Rachels, Ch 6 Hobbes, The Leviathan Chapters XIII and XVII) |
HW3
Assigned Why not try a prisoner's dilemma online? |
Th |
Oct
1 |
Social
Contract/Rawls |
Feldman, Introductory
Ethics (pp.
136-147). |
|
Tu |
Oct
6 |
Catch-Up/Review |
HW3
Due |
|
Th |
Oct
8 |
THEORETICAL
EXAM |
THEORETICAL
EXAM |
THEORETICAL
EXAM |
ETHICAL ISSUES IN SCIENCE |
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Tu |
Oct
13 |
NO
CLASS Movie Day [optional] |
MONDAY
SCHEDULE
Optional screening of: "In the Shadow of the Reich." "Deadly Deception." |
MONDAY
SCHEDULE The Miligram Experiment can be seen here. |
Th |
Oct
15 |
Human
Experimentation |
Katz, The Regulation
of Human Experimentation in the United States. The Nuremberg Code |
HW4
Assigned An interesting article in The Guardian about human experimentation. |
Tu |
Oct
20 |
Human Experimentation | NYT,
Head
of
EPA Bars Nazi Data in Study on Gas. Moe, Should the Nazi Research Data be Cited? Post, The Echo of Nuremberg. Bogod,
The
Nazi
Hypothermia Experiments: Forbidden Data?
[optional]
|
|
Th |
Oct
22 |
Animal
Experimentation |
Singer,
All
Animals
Are Equal. Cohen, The case for the use of animals in biomedical research. Dewey, The Ethics of Animal Experimentation. Rachels, Ch 7.4 |
HW4
Due |
Tu |
Oct
27 |
Animal Experimentation | [same as above] | HW5
Assigned Peter Singer on the Colbert Report in 2006 and in 2009. (The 2006 interview focuses more on animals.) |
Th |
Oct
29 |
Animal Experimentation | [same
as
above] |
|
Tu |
Nov
3 |
Free Inquiry | Kitcher, Chapter
8
of Science, Truth, and
Democracy Kitcher, An Argument About Free Inquiry. [optional] |
HW5
Due HW6 Assigned |
Th |
Nov
5 |
Free Inquiry Case Study: Race and IQ | Rose,
Should
Scientists
Study Race and IQ? No. Ceci & Williams, Should Scientists Study Race and IQ? Yes. |
|
Tu |
Nov
10 |
Rationing |
Singer,
Why
We
Must Ration Health Care. Harris, Maximizing the Health of the Whole Community. |
HW6
Due HW7 Assigned |
Th |
Nov
12 |
Rationing |
Daniels, Justice,
Health,
and Healthcare. [optional]
Evans, Rationing
Health
Care by Age: The Case Against. [optional]
Williams, Rationing
Health
Care by Age: The Case For. [optional]
|
|
Tu |
Nov
17 |
Scientific Fraud/Mistakes | The
Economist,
Liar
Liar. Pool, More Squabbling Over Unbelievable Result. Browne (NY Times), Physicists Debunk Claim of a New Kind of Fusion. Resnik, Social Epistemology And The Ethics of Research. (pp. 572-8 only) Leibel, When
Scientists Are Wrong. [optional]
Langmuir, Pathological
Science. [optional]
|
|
Th |
Nov
19 |
Scientific Fraud/Mistakes | HW7
Due
|
|
SCIENTIFIC ISSUES IN ETHICS |
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Tu |
Nov
24 |
Intro
to
Metaethics: Euthyphro |
Rachels,
Chapter 4 |
|
Th |
Nov
26 |
NO
CLASS |
HAPPY
THANKSGIVING! |
|
Tu |
Dec
1 |
Ethics
and
Intuition |
Jackson & Pettit, Moral
Functionalism
and
Moral Motivation.(pp. 22-27) Daniels, Reflective Equilibrium. (Section 1) |
HW9 Assigned |
Th |
Dec
3 |
Ethics
and
Intuition |
Sunstein, Moral
Heuristics. (pp. 5-12) Greene, From Neural ‘Is to Moral ‘Ought’. (excluding last section) Trolley Problem Tversky
&
Khaneman, The
Framing of
Decisions and the Psychology of Choice. [optional]
Wheatley & Haidt, Hypnotic Disgust Makes Moral Judgments More Severe. [optional] |
|
Tu |
Dec
8 |
Ethics
and
Intuition |
Stich
&
Doris, Moral
Psychology:
Empirical Approaches. (section 2) Singer, Ethics and Intuition. |
|
Th |
Dec
10 |
Virtue
Ethics
and Pscyhology |
Rachels,
Ch
12 Stich & Doris, Moral Psychology: Empirical Approaches. (section 4) |
HW9
Due |
Th |
Dec 17 |
FINAL
EXAM |
FINAL EXAM: 10:30
AM
109 Bartlett Hall |
|