| |
| |
| |
| The Story as a Tool of Ethics | |
| |
| |
| |
| Thinking About Values The Best of Times, the Worst of Times? Good and Evil Is Morality Hardwired? | |
| |
| |
| Values, Morals and Ethics Debating Moral Issues: The Role of Religion, the Law, Logic, Emotions, and Story-Telling Martha Nussbaum | |
| |
| |
| Stories, Ethics, and Emotions Primary Reading: Martha Nussbaum,Love's Knowledge Primary Reading | |
| |
| |
| |
| The Lucifer Effect Narrative:Smoke Signals Narrative:Big Fish Narrative:East of Eden | |
| |
| |
| |
| Learning Moral Lessons from Stories Didactic Stories The New Interest in Stories Across the Professions | |
| |
| |
| The Value of Stories in World Cultures Stories of Values Across the Ages Primary Reading: Plato | |
| |
| |
| The Republic Primary Reading: Aristotle,Poetics Primary Reading: Umberto Eco | |
| |
| |
| The Name of the Rose Primary Reading: Raymond Chandler | |
| |
| |
| The Simple Art of Murder Narrative:Medea Narrative | |
| |
| |
| The Sorrows of Young Werther Narrative | |
| |
| |
| The Education on Mingo Narrative:Pulp Fiction | |
| |
| |
| |
| What Should I Do? Theories of Conduct | |
| |
| |
| |
| Ethical Relativism How to Deal with Moral Differences | |
| |
| |
| The Lessons of Anthropology Refuting Ethical Relativism James Rachels and Soft Universalism Ethical Relativism and Multiculturalism Primary Reading | |
| |
| |
| |
| Anthropology and the Abnormal Primary Reading | |
| |
| |
| |
| Dwellers and Spirits: The Problem with Moral Absolutes Primary Reading | |
| |
| |
| |
| Paradox and Dream Narrative:The Poisonwood Bible Narrative | |
| |
| |
| Possessing the Secret of Joy Narrative:Do the Right Thing | |
| |
| |
| |
| Myself or Others? | |
| |
| |
| Psychological Egoism: From Virginia Tech to 9/11 | |
| |
| |
| Psychological Egoism: From Glaucon to Hobbes Shortcomings to Psychological Egoism Ethical Egoism and Its Critics Being Selfless: Levinas's Ideal Altruism vs. Singer's Reciprocal Altruism Selfish Genes, or Fellow-Feeling? | |
| |
| |
| Dawkins, Midgley, Hume and de Waal Primary Reading: Plato,The Republic Primary Reading | |
| |
| |
| |
| The Rings of Tolkien and Plato: Lessons in Power, Choice, and Morality Primary Reading | |
| |
| |
| |
| Leviathan Primary Reading | |
| |
| |
| |
| The Ethics of Emergencies Primary Reading | |
| |
| |
| |
| Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved Narrative:Friendsepisode: "The One Where Phoebe Hates PBS" Narrative:Return to Paradise Narrative | |
| |
| |
| Atlas Shrugged Narrative:The Lord of the Rings | |
| |
| |
| |
| Using Your Reason, Part 1: Utilitarianism Jeremy Bentham and the Hedonistic Calculus Advantages and Problems of Sheer Numbers: From Animal Welfare to the Question of Torture | |
| |
| |
| |
| Higher and Lower Pleasures Mill's Harm Principle Act and Rule Utilitarianism Primary Reading | |
| |
| |
| |
| Of the Principle of Utility Primary Reading | |
| |
| |
| |
| Utilitarianism Primary Reading: Peter Singer | |
| |
| |
| A Convenient Truth Narrative | |
| |
| |
| The Blacksmith and the Baker Narrative | |
| |
| |
| The Brothers Karamazov Narrative | |
| |
| |
| The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas Narrative | |
| |
| |
| Extreme Measures Narrative:Runaway Jury | |
| |
| |
| |
| Using Your Reason, Part 2: Kant's Deontology Consequences Don't Count | |
| |
| |
| Having a Good Will Does | |
| |
| |
| The Categorical Imperative Rational Beings Are Ends in Themselves Beings Who Are Things | |
| |
| |
| The Kingdom of Ends Primary Reading | |
| |
| |
| |
| Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals Primary Reading | |
| |
| |
| |
| The Metaphysics of Morals Narrative:High Noon Narrative:3:10 to Yuma Narrative:Match Point | |
| |
| |
| |
| Personhood, Rights, and Justice What Is a Human Being? | |
| |
| |
| The Expansion of the Concept "Human" Personhood: The Key to Rights Science and | |
| |
| |
| Introduction | |
| |
| |
| The Nature Of Philosophy | |
| |
| |
| |
| What Is Philosophy? | |
| |
| |
| The Word Itself | |
| |
| |
| The Fields of Philosophy | |
| |
| |
| A Rational, Critical Enterprise Differing Conceptions | |
| |
| |
| A Working Definition Philosophy, Religion, and Science Of Beards and Bread | |
| |
| |
| Where do we Begin? | |
| |
| |
| Professor Miller’s Four Principles | |
| |
| |
| |
| in Review Readings from: Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers Plato, Apology Whitehead, Process and Reality | |
| |
| |
| Moore, Principia Ethica Camus | |
| |
| |
| ""The Myth of Sisyphus"" | |
| |
| |
| Husserl, Ideas James, ""The Present | |
| |
| |
| |
| Introduction to the Philosophical Journey: Where Are We Going and How Will We Get There? | |
| |
| |
| |
| Overview of the Journey | |
| |
| |
| |
| Socrates and the Search for Wisdom From Plato | |
| |
| |
| Apology From Plato, Republic | |
| |
| |
| |
| Plato's Allegory of the Cave From Plato, Republic | |
| |
| |
| |
| Argument and Evidence: How Do I Decide What to Believe? | |
| |
| |
| |
| The Search for Knowledge | |
| |
| |
| |
| Overview of the Problem of Knowledge | |
| |
| |
| |
| Skepticism From | |
| |
| |
| |
| Meditations on First Philosophy From | |
| |
| |
| |
| Meditations on First Philosophy | |
| |
| |
| |
| Rationalism From | |
| |
| |
| |
| Meditations on First Philosophy | |
| |
| |
| |
| Empiricism From | |
| |
| |
| |
| An Essay concerning Human Understanding From | |
| |
| |
| |
| A Treatise concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge From | |
| |
| |
| |
| An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding From | |
| |
| |
| |
| An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding From | |
| |
| |
| |
| An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding From | |
| |
| |
| |
| An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding From | |
| |
| |
| |
| A Treatise of Human Nature | |
| |
| |
| |
| Kantian Constructivism From Immanuel Kant | |
| |
| |
| Critique of Pure Reason From | |
| |
| |
| |
| Critique of Pure Reason | |
| |
| |
| |
| Epistemological Relativism From | |
| |
| |
| |
| Beyond Good and Evil | |
| |
| |
| |
| Rethinking the Western Tradition: Pragmatism From | |
| |
| |
| |
| Pragmatism's Conception of Truth | |
| |
| |
| |
| Rethinking the Western Tradition: Feminist Epistemology From | |
| |
| |
| |
| Women | |
| |
| |
| Knowledge | |
| |
| |
| and Reality | |
| |
| |
| |
| The Search for Ultimate Reality | |
| |
| |
| |
| Overview of Metaphysics | |
| |
| |
| |
| Overview: The Mind-Body Problem From | |
| |
| |
| |
| Tantalus | |
| |
| |
| |
| Dualism From | |
| |
| |
| |
| Discourse on the Method From | |
| |
| |
| |
| Meditations on First Philosophy From | |
| |
| |
| |
| Meditations on First Philosophy | |
| |
| |
| |
| Physicalism From | |
| |
| |
| |
| Persons and Their World | |
| |
| |
| |
| Functionalism and Artificial Intelligence From | |
| |
| |
| |
| The Mind-Body Problem From | |
| |
| |
| |
| Why People Think Computers Can't | |
| |
| |
| |
| Overview: Freedom and Determinism | |
| |
| |
| |
| Hard Determinism From | |
| |
| |
| |
| Walden Two From | |
| |
| |
| |
| Erewhon From | |
| |
| |
| |
| The Leopold and | |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| Libertarianism From | |
| |
| |
| |
| Metaphysics From | |
| |