Lecture Notes

Week 1

Arguments

Moral Luck

Week 2

Fatalism

Human Freedom vs. Divine Foreknowledge

Week 3

Hard Determinism

The Libet Experiment

Against Moral Responsibility

Week 4

The Principle of Alternate Possibilities

Compatibilism

Inompatibilism

Week 5

Libertarianism & Mystery

Indeterminism & Free Will

Situationism

Week 6

Situationism, Sanity, & Responsibility

Punishment & Meaning

Week 7

Existentialism

Week 8

The Problem of Political Authority

Philosophical Anarchism

Social Contract Theory

Against the Social Contract

Week 9

The Elite Electorate

Mill on Liberty

Week 10

Paternalism

Rawls - Distributive Justice (fairness)

Week 11

Nozick - Distributive Justice (entitlement)

Week 12

Five Faces of Oppression

Positive vs. Negative Liberty

Week 13

Parent Licensing

Week 14

Drug Legalization

The Paradox of Choice

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