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Instructor:
  • Prof. Julia Markovits
Course Number:
  • 24.231
Departments:
  • Linguistics and Philosophy
As Taught In: Fall 2009
Level: Undergraduate

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  • Humanities
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    Ethics

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Paper Topics – Final Paper

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Lecture Notes

Handout 1: Plato, "The Euthyphro"

Handout 10: My Notes on Mill’s Utilitarianism

Handout 11: My Notes on Theories of Well-Being

Handout 12: My notes, Norcross, "Comparing Harms: Headaches and Human Lives"

Handout 13: Williams, "A Critique of Utilitarianism"

Handout 14: Notes on Lenman, "Consequentialism and Cluelessness"

Handout 15: Singer, "Is Act-Utilitarianism Self-Defeating?"

Handout 16: Rawls, "Two Concepts of Rules"

Handout 17: Nagel, "Ethics" (or "Autonomy and Deontology")

Handout 18: Rawls, "Classical Utilitarianism" and Nagel, "Equality"

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Course Info

Instructor:
  • Prof. Julia Markovits
Course Number:
  • 24.231
Departments:
  • Linguistics and Philosophy
As Taught In: Fall 2009
Level: Undergraduate

Topics

  • Humanities
    Philosophy
    Ethics

Learning Resource Types

notes Lecture Notes
assignment Written Assignments
assignment Presentation Assignments
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