Nozick - The Experience Machine
Parfit - What Makes Someone's Life Go Best?
Week 2Benatar - Why it is Better Never to Come into Existence
Week 3Parfit - The Non-Identity Problem
Boonin - How to Solve the Non-Identity Problem
Week 4Bradley - Doing Away With Harm
Week 5Kamm, Kant, Ross, Williams, Woollard - Nonconsequentialism
Rachels - Active and Passive Euthanasia
Tooley - An Irrelevant Consideration
Kagan, Thomson, Foot - Killing and Letting Die
Week 6Bennett - Negation and Abstention (read only sections 1-5)
Quinn - The Doctrine of Doing and Allowing
McMahan - Killing, Letting Die, and Withdrawing Aid
Week 8Flanigan - A Defense of Compulsory Vaccination
Woollard - COVID-19, Lockdowns, and the Doing-Allowing Distinction
Singer - The Singer Solution to World Poverty
Vance - Causal Relevance, Permissible Omissions, and Famine Relief
Week 9Aquinas, Kant, Foot, Fitzpatrick - Intro to the DDE
Nelkin & Rickless - So Close, But So Far (read sections 1-3 for Wednesday and section 6 for Friday)
Fitzpatrick - The Problem of Closeness (read sections 1-4 for Friday and section 6 for Monday)
Week 10Quinn - The Doctrine of Double Effect
Kamm - The Doctrine of Triple Effect
Week 11 Week 12Hanna - Doing, Allowing, and the Moral Relevance of the Past
Huemer - A Paradox for Weak Deontology
Kamm - The Intransivity Paradox
Horton - The All or Nothing Problem
Pummer - All or Nothing, But If Not All, Next Best or Nothing
Week 13Parfit - Five Mistakes in Moral Mathematics
Week 14Vance - Justifying Subsistence Emissions (you may skip section 3)