Detailed Schedule of Reading and Lectures

All required readings are available either in the Library’s 2hr Reserve or via the Library’s E-reading system.

Week 1 Introduction

Background Reading

‘Reading Philosophy’ (read this if you haven’t studied philosophy before)

P. Vallentyne, ‘Consequentialism’

McNaughton & Rawling, ‘Deontology’

R. Hursthouse, ‘Virtue Theory’

All in Ethics†in†Practice, ed. Hugh LaFollette (Blackwell publishing, 3rd edition)

Week 2 Life, Death and the Ethics of Killing

Required Reading: D. Marquis ‘Why Abortion is Immoral’, Journal of Philosophy, LXXXVI, 4 (April 1989): 183202

Additional readings

M. Tooley ‘Abortion and Infanticide’¨, Philosophy andPublic Affairs, Vol. 2, No. 1 (1972): 3765

P. Singer, Practical Ethics 3rd edition, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), Ch. 4 “What’s Wrong with Killing?”

W. Sinnott-Armstrong, "You can't lose what you ain't never had: A reply to Marquis on abortion, Philosophical Studies 96(1) (1999): 5972.

P. McInerney, "Does a Fetus Already have a FutureLikeOurs?", The Journal of Philosophy 87(5) (1990): 264268.

A. Norcross, "Killing, Abortion, and Contraception: A Reply to Marquis", The†Journal†of†Philosophy†87(5) (1990): 268277.

Week 3 Abortion

Required reading∫†J. J. Thomson, “A Defence of Abortion,” Philosophy†and†Public†Affairs†1 1 (1971): 4766

Additional reading

M. Little, “The Moral Permissibility of Abortion,” in A Cohen and C Wellman (eds.) Contemporary†Debates†in†Applied†Ethics†(Malden MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2005)

Week 4 Euthanasia

Required Reading∫†J. Rachels, “Active and Passive Euthanasia,” The†End†of†Life∫†Euthanasia†and†Morality†(Oxford University Press, 1986), ch. 7

Additional reading

T. Beauchamp, ‘Justifying PhysicianAssisted Suicide’ in Ethics†in†Practice, edited by Hugh LaFollette (Blackwell publishing, 3rd edition)

J. D. Velleman, “Against the Right to Die,” New York Working Paper Series (August 13, 2007). Reprinted in Ethics†In†Practice

Week 5 Animal Ethics

Required†Reading: P. Singer, “All Animals Are Equal,” Animal†Liberation†(Avon Books, 1990)

Additional†Reading

C. Diamond, “Eating Meat and Eating People,” Philosophy, 53 206 (1978): 465479

R. Hursthouse, “Applying Virtue Ethics to Our Treatment of the Other Animals,” in Jennifer Welchman (ed.) The†Practice†of†Virtue¨

(Hackett, 2006)

T. McPherson, “Why I am a vegan (and you should be one too).” Forthcomng in Philosophy†Comes†to†Dinner†(Eds.Andrew Chignell,Terence Cuneo, and Matthew Halteman). Manuscript available at https://www.dropbox.com/s/mxdz23tj5kc2ay0/McPhersonWhy_I_am_a_veganfor_web.pdf?dl=0

Week 6 Environmental Ethics and Climate Change

Required†Reading: W. SinnottArmstrong,“It’s Not My Fault: Global Warming and Individual Moral Obligations,” in SinnottArmstrong and Howarth (eds.), Perspectives†on†Climate†Change∫†Science¨†Economics¨†Politics¨†Ethics, Vol. 5 (2005)

Additional†Reading

‘S. Caney, ‘Climate Change and The Future: Discounting for Time, Wealth and Risk’, Journal†of†Social†Philosophy†40 (2009): 163186

Kagan, S. "Do I make a difference?" Philosophy†and†Public†Affairs†39 2 (2011): 105–141.

Gardiner, Caney, Jamieson & Shue, (eds).: Climate†Ethics∫†Essential†Readings. (Oxford University Press, 2010).

Week 7 Ethics and World Poverty

Required†Reading: P. Singer, ‘Famine, “Famine, Affluence and Morality,” Philosophy†and†Public†Affairs†1 (1972): 229–243

Additional†Reading

G. Cullity “International Aid and the Scope of Kindness.” Ethics†105 (1994): 99–127

J. Carens, ‘Aliens and Citizens: The Case for Open Borders,’ Review†of†Politics†49 (1987): 251273

Week 9 Genetic Engineering

Required†Reading: M. Sandel, “The case against perfection,” The Atlantic Monthly 293 (3): 5162

Additional†reading

N. Agar, “Liberal Eugenics,” Public†Affairs†Quarterly†12 2 (1998): 137 155)

F. Kamm, “Is There a Problem with Enhancement?” American†Journal†of†Bioethics†5 3 (2005): 5 14

J. Savluescu & G. Kahane, “Procreative Beneficence and Disability: Is There a Moral Obligation to Create Children with the Best Chance of the Best Life,” Bioethics†23 5 (2009): 274 – 290

Week 10 Consent to Sex

Required†reading: Sarah Conly, “Seduction, Rape and Coercion,” Ethics†115 (2004): 96121

Recommended†reading

Robin West, “Sex, Law and Consent,” in Alan Wertheimer & William Miller (eds.) The†Ethics†of†Consent∫†Theory†and†Practice, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009)

Additional†readings

Onora O’Neill, “Between Consenting Adults,” Philosophy†and†Public†Affairs¨†14 3 (1985): 251277

Alan Wertheimer, “Consent to Sexual

Relations,” in Franklin Miller & Alan Wertheimer (eds.) The†Ethics†of†Consent¨†(2010), electronic version in library ecollection

Week 11 Commercial Surrogacy

Required†Reading∫†E. Anderson, “Why Commercial Surrogate Motherhood Unethically Commodifies Women and Children: Reply to McLachlan and Swales,” Health†Care†Analysis†8 (2000): 1926

Additional†reading

M. Sandel, “Commodification, Commercialization, and Privatization,” in What†Money†Can’t†Buy∫†The†Moral†Limits†of†Markets, The Tanner Lectures on Human Values (1998)

H. McLachlan and J. K. Swales, “Babies, Child Bearers and Commodification,” Health†Care†Analysis†8 (2000)

Week 12 Pornography, Free Speech & Censorship

Required Reading: R. Dworkin, MacKinnon’s Words’ in Ethics†in†Practice, edited by Hugh LaFollette (Blackwell publishing, 3rd edition)

Recommended Reading

S. Brison, ‘The Price We Pay’ in Ethics†in†Practice, edited by Hugh LeFollette (Blackwell)

Additional Reading

A.W. Eaton, “A Sensible Antiporn Feminism,” Ethics†117 4 (2007): 674715

Rae Langton, ‘Speech Acts and Unspeakable Acts,’ Philosophy†&†Public†Affairs†22 (4) 1993: 293330

N. Bauer, ‘Pornutopis,’ n†´†1†(2007): 6373

Week 12 Artificial intelligence ethics

Required reading: Clinton Castro, “What’s Wrong with Machine Bias?” Ergo, Vol. 6, No. 15, 2019.

Additional Reading

Solon Barocas and Helen Nissenbaum, “Big Data’s End Run around Anonymity and Consent” in eds. J. Lane, V. Stodden, S. Bender, H. Nissenbaum, Privacy, Big Data and the Public Good (Cambridge: CUP, 2014).

Week 13 Moral ignorance

Required Reading: C. Calhoun, “Responsibility and Reproach,” Ethics, 99 2 (1989): 389406

Additional†reading

M. MoodyAdams,

“Culture, Responsibility, and Affected Ignorance,” Ethics 104 2 (1994): 291 309

T. Isaacs, “Cultural Context and Moral Responsibility,” Ethics, 107 4 (1997): 670684

G. Rosen, “Culpability and Ignorance,” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 103 1 (2004)