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==Course Schedule & Reading Notes==
  
==Ethics Course Wiki==
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:*[[Ethics News!]]
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:*[[Fall 2024 Ethics Class Notes and Reading Schedule]]
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:*[[Empathy Gym Practicum - Optional Assignment]]
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:*[[Ethics Fall 2023 New Prison videos]]
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:*[http://Courses.alfino.org Courses.alfino.org]
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:*[https://www.dropbox.com/sh/l3h8c2g1asg9ru0/AACISs3JNFbBfQqHemFIYPxsa?dl=0 Link to Main Shared Folder]
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:*[https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/hpr75x4j3y0s7pbzrpy8c/ANAKWuQGONdBQENW4Y-flpo?rlkey=l64dd1g3v3eao0jl7fckmwq5a&dl=0 Link to Class Audio ]
  
:*First Short Answer Question:
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==More Course Information==
::*Explain Haidt's claim that "intuitions come first, reasoning second" and present some of the support for it.  How radical a claim is it in relationship to other models or metaphors for consciousness both in previous philosophy and psychology?
 
  
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:*[[Major Ethics Course Questions]]
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:*[https://www.imdb.com/list/ls028883207/ Some movies with ethical themes]
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:*[[Philosophical Methods]]
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:*[[Assignment Rubric]]
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:*[[Advice on Reading]]
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:*[https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd1rzcswS48y0luv6YjVLNw0M2ol76-gLrmId03DopGEcBLGA/viewform?usp=sf_link Tell Me]
  
*[[Ethics Basic Course Information | Basic Course Information]]
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===Other Resources===
*[[Spring 2015 Ethics Reading Schedule | Reading Schedule]]
 
*[[Ethics Assignment List | Assignments for Grading Schemes]]
 
*[[Spring 2015 Ethics Course Lecture Notes A | Lecture Notes A]]
 
*[[Spring 2015 Ethics Course Study Questions | Study Questions]]
 
  
*[[Spring 2015 Ethics Course Questions | Major Course Questions]]
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:*Some links on Dobbs, 14th am, and basic liberties
*[[Spring 2015 Ethics Course Bibliography | Course Bibliography]]
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::*[https://youtu.be/hDG38J961rU Eric Foner, Columbia U prof, 6 mins on the text]
*[[Ethics Suggested Projects and Topics | Suggested Projects and Topics]]
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::*[https://youtu.be/1DN_jFt-zNE National Constitution Center Video on 14th amendment] 25 mins
  
*[[Philosophical Methods]]
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:*[https://www.ted.com/talks/frans_de_waal_do_animals_have_morals De Waal Monkey Research TED talk]
*[[The Ethics Movie List]]
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:*Monkey fairness: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HL45pVdsRvE ]
*[[The Short Short Guide to Wiki Edits]]
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:*Mercier and Sperber article mentioned in Haidt, Chapter 4: [http://www.dan.sperber.fr/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/MercierSperberWhydohumansreason.pdf]
*[[Student Practice Page for Wiki]]
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:*Sparknotes key dates / summaries on Enlightenment. [http://www.sparknotes.com/history/european/enlightenment/summary.html]
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:*False Belief Test: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hLubgpY2_w]
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:*The Cold Logic of Drunk People [http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/10/the-cold-logic-of-drunk-people/381908/]
  
==Other Resources==
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===Office Use Only===
  
(This is a section students often contribute to by noticing ethical issues and articles about values that they find important.)
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:*Previous Class Notes:
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:*[[Spring 2024 Ethics Class Notes and Reading Schedule]]
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:*[[Fall 2023 Ethics Class Notes and Reading Schedule]]
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:*[[Fall 2021 Ethics Class Notes and Reading Schedule | Fall 2021 Class Notes and Reading Schedule]]
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:*[[Spring 2021 Ethics Class Notes and Reading Schedule | Spring 2021 Class Notes and Reading Schedule]]
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:*[[Fall 2022 Ethics Class Notes and Reading Schedule]]
  
*[[Peer Review Advice from Peerceptiv!]]
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:*[[Alfino Ethics Course Syllabus]]   
 
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:*[[Proposal Draft for WE designation]]
*A student sent in this link to a video on consciousness.  Pretty good panelists [http://www.nourfoundation.com/videos/the-thinking-ape-the-enigma-of-human-consciousness.html]
 
 
 
*The Cold Logic of Drunk People [http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/10/the-cold-logic-of-drunk-people/381908/]
 
 
 
*Visit the site [http://www.yourmorals.org/explore.php Your Morals. org] and take one or two of the surveys.  Write a journal entry about it.
 
 
 
*Prompt for Eco essay, "When the Other Appears on the Scene"
 
 
 
*"The following letter is Eco’s reply to a question the cardinal had asked him: “What is the basis of the certainty and necessity for moral action of those who, in order to establish the absolute nature of an ethic, do not intend to appeal to metaphysical principles or transcendental values, or even to universally valid categorical imperatives?”"
 
 
 
*New Yorker article on "Biology of Violence," [http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1995/03/13/1995_03_13_068_TNY_CARDS_000370336] suggesting that criminal subcultures are following "legitimate" evolutionary strategies.
 
 
 
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WB3Q5EF4Sg The Trolley Problem]
 
 
 
*If Facebook were Yelp [http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/shouts/2013/01/if-facebook-were-yelp.html]
 
 
 
*Here is a link giving a synopsis of the book Blink by Malcolm Gladwell.  It is about how people can make choices within the blink of an eye. This kind of relates to the "elephant" we have been discussing in class.
 
[http://books.google.it/books/about/Blink.html?id=9G6fQAAACAAJ&redir_esc=y]
 
 
 
*Additionally, I have posted a link to the book Think by Michael LeGault.  It is a counterargument to Gladwell's Blink discussing why serious decisions cannot be made quickly - "the rider" so to speak.
 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_(book)]
 
 
 
==Previous Course Resources==
 
 
 
*[[Spring 2014 Ethics Course Lecture Notes A | Lecture Notes A]]
 
*[[Spring 2014 Ethics Course Study Questions | Study Questions]]
 
*[[Documents from 1st Group Exercise -- Ethics Spring 2015]]
 
*[[Assignment Rubric]]
 

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