Spring 2013 Ethics Course Reading List

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• Ariely, Dan. 26 May 2012, Why We Lie. Wall Street Journal (New York).
• Aristotle. Nichomachean Ethics, Books 1-3. [Internet Clasics Archive]. 19 August 2010.
• Cooper, David. 1993. Chapter 1: Introduction to Philosophical Ethics. Value Pluralism & Ethical Choice, 1-26. New York: St. Martin's Press.
• ________. 1993. Chapter 5: Cognitive and Moral Development. Value Pluralism & Ethical Choice, 75-91. New York: St. Martin's Press.
• de Waal, Franz. 2006. Morally Evolved: Primate Social Instincts, Human Morality, and the Rise and Fall of "Veneer Theory". in Primates and Philosophers , editors Stephen Macedo and Josiah Ober , 1-59. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
• Eco, Umberto. Fall 2002. When the Other Appears on the Scene. Cross Currents 52, no. 3: 19-30.
• Haidt, Jonathan. 2012. The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion. New York: Pantheon.
• Hinman, Lawrence. 2003. Chapter 8: Justice. in Ethics: A Pluralistic Approach Lawrence Hinman. United States: Tompson Wadsworth.
• Korsgaard, Christine M. 2006. Morality and the Distinctiveness of Human Action . in Primates and Philosophers, editors Stephen Macedo and Josiah Ober, 98-120. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
• Mill, John Stuart. Utilitarianism. Batoche Books, Kitchener 2001. [1]. 11 November 2012.
• Rachels, James and Stuart Rachels. 2012. Chapters 6-10: Social Contract Theory, Utilitarianism, Kantianism. in The Elements of Moral Philosophy James Rachels and Stuart Rachels, 82-146McGraw Hill.
• Singer, Peter. 2002. Chapter 1: A Changing World. One World Peter Singer. Australia: Yale University Press.
• Singer, Peter. 1975. Chapter 1: About Ethics. Practical Ethics, 1-15.
• ________. 1975. Chapter 2: Equality and Its Implications. Practical Ethics, 14-39.
• Singer, Peter. 2002. Chapter 2: One Atmosphere. One World Peter Singer, 14-50. Australia: Yale University Press.
• ________. 2002. Chapter 5: One Community. One World Peter Singer. Australia: Yale University Press.
• ________. 2006. Morality, Reason, and the Rights of Animals. in Primates and Philosophers, editors Stephen Macedo and Josiah Ober, 140-61. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
• Singer, Peter. 1975. Rich and Poor. Practical Ethics, 14-39.