24.231 | Fall 2009 | Undergraduate

Ethics

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Handout 1: Plato, "The Euthyphro"
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Handout 2: Moore on Goodness
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Handout 3: Ayer’s Emotivism
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Handout 4: Brink, "The Form and Content of Moral Judgments"
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Handout 5: Harman, "Ethics and Observation"
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Handout 6: Sturgeon, "Moral Explanations"
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Handout 7: Harman, "What Is Moral Relativism?"
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Handout 8: Foot, "What Is Moral Relativism?"
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Handout 9: My Notes on Lyons, "Ethical Relativism and the Problem of Incoherence"
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Handout 10: My Notes on Mill’s Utilitarianism
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Handout 11: My Notes on Theories of Well-Being
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Handout 12: My notes, Norcross, "Comparing Harms: Headaches and Human Lives"
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Handout 13: Williams, "A Critique of Utilitarianism"
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Handout 14: Notes on Lenman, "Consequentialism and Cluelessness"
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Handout 15: Singer, "Is Act-Utilitarianism Self-Defeating?"
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Handout 16: Rawls, "Two Concepts of Rules"
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Handout 17: Nagel, "Ethics" (or "Autonomy and Deontology")
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Handout 18: Rawls, "Classical Utilitarianism" and Nagel, "Equality"
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Handout 19: Bernard Williams, "The Idea of Equality"
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Handout 20: Singer, "Famine, Affluence, and Morality"
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Handout 21: Nomy Arpaly, "Moral Worth"
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Handout 22: Susan Wolf, "Moral Saints"
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Handout 23: Peter van Inwagen, "The Incompatibility of Free Will and Determinism"
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Handout 24: Harry Frankfurt, "Alternate Possibilities and Moral Responsibility"
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Handout 25: Nagel, "Moral Luck"

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