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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