Handouts
Assignments & exams
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Final ExamMon, Dec 1, 2025
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Term PaperTue, Nov 11, 2025
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Final Extra Credit AssignmentTue, Nov 11, 2025
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Midterm ExamWed, Oct 22, 2025
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Writing Exercise II: Assessing ArgumentsWed, Oct 8, 2025
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Writing Exercise I: Explicating ArgumentsWed, Sep 10, 2025
The social turn
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Simone de Beauvoir, The Second SexWed, Dec 3, 2025
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Christine Korsgaard, “Kant on the Right to Revolution”Mon, Nov 24, 2025
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Charles Mills, “Ideal Theory as Ideology”Wed, Nov 19, 2025
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Fricker on Hermeneutical InjusticeTue, Nov 11, 2025
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Fricker and Ruíz on the Ethics of TestimonyTue, Nov 11, 2025
Now, theories
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Alison Jaggar, “Caring as a Feminist Practice”Wed, Oct 22, 2025
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Nel Noddings, CaringMon, Oct 20, 2025
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Julia Annas, “Being Virtuous and Doing the Right Thing”Wed, Oct 15, 2025
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Aristotle, Nicomachean EthicsMon, Oct 13, 2025
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Immanuel Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals IIWed, Oct 8, 2025
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Immanuel Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals IMon, Oct 6, 2025
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Judith Thomson Canonizing the Trolley ProblemWed, Oct 1, 2025
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Philippa Foot, “The Problem of Abortion and the Doctrine of the Double Effect”Mon, Sep 29, 2025
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Jeremy Bentham, An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and LegislationMon, Sep 22, 2025
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The Idea of a Moral TheoryMon, Sep 22, 2025
Starting with cases
Introduction