Thursday, June 28, 2018
Wednesday, June 27, 2018
topics for midterm exam (Summer A)
Click here for the topics to the midterm exam.
Click here for a link to your textbook's tests and notes.
Remember to bring your own scantrons (and a pencil) to our test.
To all my Student Assistants for Tuesday and Thursday classes: Is there a possibility to coordinate a review for our Midterm coming up next Tuesday?
Click here for a link to your textbook's tests and notes.
Remember to bring your own scantrons (and a pencil) to our test.
To all my Student Assistants for Tuesday and Thursday classes: Is there a possibility to coordinate a review for our Midterm coming up next Tuesday?
Tuesday, June 26, 2018
Saturday, June 9, 2018
homework, chapter 3 (summer A)
Homework 1
1. what is ethics?
2. are there moral values? where do moral values come from? click here for triff's lecture on moral judgments,
3. what's overridingness?
4. what do moral theories explain?
5. what is the difference between moral absolutism and moral objectivism?
6. what is moral relativism?
7. explain the difference between subjective relativism and cultural relativism.
Homework 2
1. explain the difference between act and rule utilitarianism (target your answer in following the example of the terminally ill woman on p. 156).
2. jeremy bentham and john stuart mill have different views on the nature of happiness. explain.
3. read the death penalty example on page 160 (between retentionists and abolitionists). the discussion pivots on utilitarianism.
4. answer questions 1-5 from section 3.3 p. 169
Homework 3
1. Define pertect and imperfect duties.
2. What is Kant's Categorical Imperative?
3. Explain Kant's Second Formulation
Homework 4,
1. What is virtue according to Aristotle?
1. what is ethics?
2. are there moral values? where do moral values come from? click here for triff's lecture on moral judgments,
3. what's overridingness?
4. what do moral theories explain?
5. what is the difference between moral absolutism and moral objectivism?
6. what is moral relativism?
7. explain the difference between subjective relativism and cultural relativism.
Homework 2
1. explain the difference between act and rule utilitarianism (target your answer in following the example of the terminally ill woman on p. 156).
2. jeremy bentham and john stuart mill have different views on the nature of happiness. explain.
3. read the death penalty example on page 160 (between retentionists and abolitionists). the discussion pivots on utilitarianism.
4. answer questions 1-5 from section 3.3 p. 169
Homework 3
1. Define pertect and imperfect duties.
2. What is Kant's Categorical Imperative?
3. Explain Kant's Second Formulation
Homework 4,
1. What is virtue according to Aristotle?
Thursday, June 7, 2018
Topics for Exam #1 (SUMMER A)
Find the topics here.
Also here's a link to your Doing Philosophy textbook.
Click the different chapters, then on the left hand side click the corresponding sections. There are True/False and Multiple Choice Questions. Test yourself.
You should bring your own scantrons: #888-P or #882-E
Also here's a link to your Doing Philosophy textbook.
Click the different chapters, then on the left hand side click the corresponding sections. There are True/False and Multiple Choice Questions. Test yourself.
You should bring your own scantrons: #888-P or #882-E