Cleland - Why Life Can't Be Defined
Week 2Perry - A Dialogue on Personal Identity
Week 3 Week 4Nozick - The Experience Machine
Parfit - What Makes Someone's Life Go Best?
Benatar - Why It Is Better Never to Come into Existence
Week 5Williams - The Makropulos Case: Reflections on the Tedium of Immortality
Fischer - Why Immortality Is Not So Bad
Week 6Craig - The Absurdity of Life Without God
Frankl - Man's Search for Meaning
Week 7 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 10Cohen - The Case for the Use of Animals
Norcross - Puppies, Pigs, and People
Norcross - The Significance of Death for Animals
Week 12LaFollette - Licensing Parents
Vance - A Risk-Based Argument for Anti-Natalism
Week 13Parfit - The Non-Identity Problem
Broome - The Social Discount Rate
Parfit - The Social Discount Rate
Week 15Chan - Enduring Emotions (read sections 1-5)