Assigned Readings

Week 2

(Nguyen: For text, click here. For audio, click below)

Listen: Nguyen - Escape the Echo Chamber

Rachels - The Challenge of Cultural Relativism

Week 3

Nozick - The Tale of the Slave

Huemer - The Traditional Social Contract Theory

Week 4

Brennan - The Right to a Competent Electorate (read pgs. 700-709)

Huemer - Is There a Right to Immigrate?

Week 5

Huemer - America's Unjust Drug War

Radcliffe-Richards - The Case for Allowing Kidney Sales

Week 6

LaFollette - Licensing Parents

Week 7

Rachels - Active and Passive Euthanasia

Bostrom - The Dragon Tyrant & Life Extension

Week 9

Kass - Preventing a Brave New World

Marquis - Why Abortion is Immoral

Week 10

Thomson - A Defense of Abortion

Warren - On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion

Week 11

Cohen - The Case for the Use of Animals

Norcross- Puppies, Pigs, and People

Week 12

Singer - Famine, Affluence, and Morality

Hardin - Lifeboat Ethics

Patton - Game Preserve Ethics

Week 13

Gardiner - Arming the Future With Geoengineering

Week 14

Young - Overconsumption and Procreation

Sinnott-Armstrong - It's Not My Fault

Week 15

Jenkins - Autonomous Vehicles, Ethics, and Law

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