Perry - A Dialogue on Personal Identity
Week 3Descartes - Meditations On First Philosophy (I and II)
Nagel - What Is It Like To Be A Bat?
Week 4Cleland - Why Life Can't Be Defined
Kripke - The Necessity of Origin
Parfit - The Non-Identity Problem
Benatar - Why It Is Better Never to Come into Existence
Week 5Parfit - What Makes Someone's Life Go Best?
Broome - What Is Your Life Worth?
Week 6Tolstoy - A Confession (optional reading)
Craig - The Absurdity of Life Without God
Week 7Williams - The Makropulos Case: Reflections on the Tedium of Immortality
Fischer - Why Immortality Is Not So Bad
Week 8Rachels - Active and Passive Euthanasia
Week 9Marquis - Why Abortion is Immoral
Thomson - A Defense of Abortion
Warren - On The Moral and Legal Status of Abortion
Week 10LaFollette - Licensing Parents
Purdy - Can Having Children Be Immoral? (file too large; available on Blackboard, or email me)
Week 12Cohen - The Case for the Use of Animals
Norcross - Puppies, Pigs, and People
Norcross - The Significance of Death for Animals
Week 13Discount Rates: A Boring Thing You Should Know About