Tom's Office Hours: MW 2:30pm-3:30pm and by appt., Rome 552

Marissa's Office Hours: W 11:15am-12:15pm, Philips 508

Ethics: Theory and Applications Reading Schedule

Read each of the readings assigned for the day before you come to class! The links on this page will take you directly to the reading, though you will need a password for some of them, which I'll provide to you in class. Readings with no link are to be found in the books you've purchased for the course (e-books are fine!).

Week Beginning: GW Day Topic Reading
25-Aug Monday Introduction
Wednesday Setting the Stage Plato, Euthyphro
2-Sep Monday Labor Day No Class
Wednesday Divine Commands Alston, "Some Suggestions for Divine Command Theorists"
9-Sep Monday Relativism Rachels, "The Challenge of Cultural Relativism"
Wednesday Kantian Ethics O'Neill, "A Simplified Account of Kant's Ethics"

Kant, Groundwork, Section 1
16-Sep Monday Kantian Ethics Kant, Groundwork, Section 1
Wednesday Kantian Ethics Kant, Groundwork, Section 2
23-Sep Monday Kantian Ethics Kant, Groundwork, Section 2
Wednesday Kantian Ethics Kant, Groundwork, Section 3
29-Sep Monday Kant's Racism Mills, "Kant's Untermenschen"
Wednesday First Application Required: Korsgaard, "Interacting with Animals: A Kantian Account"

Optional: Regan, "The Case for Animal Rights"
7-Oct Monday Care Ethics Noddings, "Why Care about Caring?"
Wednesday Second Application Manning, “Caring for Animals"

Optional: Engster, "Care ethics and Animal Welfare"
14-Oct Monday Review
Wednesday First Exam
21-Oct Monday FALL BREAK
Wednesday Utilitarianism Mill, Utilitarianism, Chapters 1 & 2
28-Oct Monday Utilitarianism Mill, Utilitarianism, Chapters 1 & 2
Wednesday Utilitarianism Mill, Utilitarianism, Chapters 4
4-Nov Monday Challenging Utilitarianism Le Guin, "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas"
Wednesday Third Application Singer, "Down on the Factory Farm"
11-Nov Monday Virtue Ethics Anscombe, "Modern Moral Philosophy"

Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics, Bk. I Ch. 1, Bk. 1 Ch. 2

Bk 1. Ch. 7.
Wednesday Virtue Ethics Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics, Bk. I Ch. 1, Bk. 1 Ch. 2

Bk 1. Ch. 7.
18-Nov Monday Review
Wednesday Second Exam
25-Nov Monday Virtue Ethics Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics, Bk. I Ch. 13.
Wednesday Thanksgiving Thanksgiving Break
2-Dec Monday Virtue Ethics Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics, Bk II. Ch. 1-6.
Wednesday Fourth Application Hursthouse, "Virtue Ethics and the Treatment of Animals"
9-Dec Monday Ethics w/o Theories? Lance and Little, "Particularism and Anti-Theory"
16-Dec Monday FINAL EXAM 12:40-2:40pm