Course Schedule

*This schedule has changed drastically... see the revised schedule here!

March 9: Intro to Class /Mill, Kant, & Aristotle Review
-Introduction to class (figuring out where we are)
-Utilitarianism (John Stuart Mill) (pgs. 740-750)
-Immanuel Kant’s Ethics (pgs. 750-755)
-Aristotle’s Virtue Ethics (pgs. 782-784)

March 16: No Class
SPRING BREAK (no class)

March 23: Abortion
-Mary Anne Warren (pgs. 586-594) (sample consensus session)
-Don Marquis (pgs. 594-598)
-optional: (pgs. 546-559)
-in class informal group work

March 30th Embryonic Stem Cells & Genetic Control
-President’s Council on Bioethics (pgs. 312-316)
-Pontifical Academy (pgs. 316-317)
-Michael Sandel (pgs. 318-319)
-optional: (pgs. 270-288)
-Jeff McMahan (pgs. 333-337)
-Dena Davis (pgs. 337-346)
-group presentations 1 & 2 
-in class informal group work

April 6: Euthanasia
-Daniel Callahan (pgs. 706-711)
-Daniel E. Lee (pgs. 722-725)
-James Rachels (pgs. 725-729)
-Winston Nesbitt (pgs. 729-732)
-optional: (pgs. 682-689)
-group presentations 3 & 4 

April 13: Animal Research
-TEST (on ethical theories, abortion, stem cells, genetic control, & euthanasia)
-Peter Singer (pgs. 79-86)
-Carl Cohen (pg. 86-92)
-optional: (pgs. 22-24)
-group presentation 5 

April 20: The Economics of Health Care
-New York Times synopsis of U.S. Healthcare Reform (handout)
-Allen Buchanan (pgs. 525-529)
-William Custer, Charles Kahn, & Thomas Wildsmith (pgs. 534-536)
-Paul Krugman (pgs. 533-534)
-optional: (pgs. 512-519)
-group presentations 6 & 7

April 27: Race & Gender
-Susan Sherwin (pgs. 253-258)
-Annette Dula (pgs. 258-264)
-optional: (pgs. 211-214, 223-227)
-group presentations 8 & 9
-in class informal group work

May 4: Truth Telling
-TERM PAPER DUE
-Mack Lipkin (pgs. 152-154)
-Susan Cullen & Margaret Klein (pgs. 154-161)
-optional: (pgs. 102-116)
-group presentations 10 & 11
-review for Final Exam 

May 11: Final Exam
-FINAL EXAM