Spring 2013 Ethics Course Lecture Notes A
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These are the notes you will see displayed in class. They can be correlated to study questions for each class day.
Contents
- 1 January 07
- 2 January 08
- 3 January 10
- 4 January 14
- 5 January 15
- 6 January 17
- 7 January 21
- 8 January 22
- 9 January 24
- 10 January 28
- 11 January 29
- 12 January 31
- 13 February 04
- 14 February 05
- 15 February 07
- 16 February 11
- 17 February 12
- 18 February 14
- 19 February 18
- 20 February 19
- 21 February 21
- 22 February 25
- 23 February 26
- 24 February 27
- 25 March 04
- 26 March 05
- 27 March 07
- 28 March 18
- 29 March 19
- 30 March 21
- 31 March 25
- 32 March 26
- 33 March 28
- 34 April 01
- 35 April 02
- 36 April 04
- 37 April 08
- 38 April 09
- 39 April 11
January 07
First Class Topics
- Course, Materials (books, pdfs, and clicker), and Goals
- Course Methods and web sites - view course research questions
- Course website -- for reading schedule, grading scheme, email, pdfs, audio from class, audio comments on assignments
- Course wiki -- for basic course information, lecture notes, study questions.
- Einstruction site - for registering your clicker, viewing clicker questions.
- A typical prep cycle for the course: read, engage, review, prep SQs.
- Time commitment: 6 hours per week as a baseline.
- Grading Schemes: overview.
- Ereserves - pdfs for course reading not in book form.
January 08
Cooper, Chapter 1, Introduction to Philosophical Ethics
- Defining Ethics: Cooper's pragmatic definition, and others
- Levels of value reflection: actions, institutions, principles, theory, meta-theory
- The Zimbardo Prison Experiment: implications
- Example of philosophical method.
- Core ethical principles or intutions that are the basis of ethical theories. p. 23
