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Fall 2000, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Professor: Robert Streiffer

We will be reading the piece by Dworkin on pornography for Wednesday, and the piece by Brock on cloning for Friday. You can pick up copies from the box outside my office door, 5123 Helen C. White

Sample Paper 1.pdf (28k): Slightly revised sample paper (different from the one on here this morning), on Paper Topic 1, Option 3, Harman

Phil241Syllabus_Revised.pdf: Revised syllabus, with the applied ethics section before the virtue theory section.

000906Syllabus.pdf: Syllabus for the class, includes office hours, contact info, etc.

000908Hobbes.pdf: Handout on Hobbes and the Relationship between self-interest and morality

000911Feinberg.pdf: Handout on Feinberg's article "Psychological Hedonism"

000913Plato.pdf: Handout on "Ring of Gyges" excerpt from Plato.

000915Gauthier.pdf: Handout on Gauthier's article "Morality and Advantage", slightly modified from the one given out in class.

000915Treaty.pdf: An additional handout, not givenout in class, on Gautheris' article.

000918Euthyphro.pdf: A handout on Plato's Euthyphro, on the relationship between God and Morality

000920Plato_and_Ayer.pdf: A handout with a better reconstruction of the argument of th Euthyphro, and on Ayer's argument for Cognitive Skepticism

000922Harman.pdf: Handout on Harman's argument for Cognitive Skepticism

000925Brink.pdf: Handout on Brink's response to Harman

000927Harman_and_Sturgeon.pdf: Second handout on Harman's argument for Cognitive Skepticism

1st Paper Topics.pdf: Topics on Practical Skepticism, Ayer, and Harman

000929Harman_Rachels_Mackie.pdf: Handout finishing Harman, and on Rachel's "The Challenge of Moral Skepticism" and Mackie's "The Subjectivity of Value"

001003Rachels_Mackie_Nagel.pdf: Second handout on Rachels and Mackie, with a brief note about Nagel's "Value"

001005Mill_1_2: Handout on Chapters I and II from Mill's Utilitarianism

001011Mill_3_4: Handout on Chapters III and IV from Mill's Utilitarianism

001016Mill_5.pdf: Handout listing four counterexamples from justice to Utilitarianism

001018Mill_5.pdf: Handout on ChapterV from Mill's Utilitarianism

001018Rawls_Williams.pdf: Rawls' objection that utilitariansim doesn't "take seriously the distinction between persons"

001023Williams_Kagan_Brandt.pdf: Handout on Williams "A Critique of Utilitariansim", Kagan's "Constraints", and Brandt's "Towards a More Credible Form of Utilitarianism"

001025Brandt_Review.pdf: Brandt's "Towards a More Credible Form of Utilitarianism"

001027Hume.pdf: Excerpt from Hume entitled "Morality and Natural Sentiment"

001029Kant.pdf: Preface and Section One of Kant's Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals

001103Kant.pdf: Section One and Section Two of Kant's Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals

001106Kant.pdf: Section Two of Kant's Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals

2nd Paper Topic.pdf: Topic on Utilitarianism

001110Kant.pdf: Section Three of Kant's Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals

001110Kant_Questions.pdf: Study questions on Kant's Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals

001110Kant_Summary.pdf: Three paragraph summary of Kant's Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals

001113Nelson.pdf: Nelson offers a reconstruction of Kant's position and challenges both its argument and its conclusion

001115Nagel.pdf: On determinism, free will, and moral responsibility as well as on Nagel's article "Moral Luck"

001118Rawls.pdf: on Rawls' a Theory of Justice

001120Korsgaard.pdf: Korsgaard's article on Kant and the Right to Life

001122Korsgaard_Review.pdf: Korsgaard again

001127Thomson.pdf: On Thomson's article, "A Defense of Abortion"

001129Feinberg.pdf: Feinburg's article "Abortion and the Conflict of Claims"

001201Singer.pdf: Singer's article "Famine, Affluence, and Morality"

3rd Paper Topic.pdf: on abortion or obligations to those in need