Utilitarianism

8/21 - 9/15

• Nielsen, "Against Moral Conservatism" (pp.211-219)
• Nozick, "The Experience Machine" (pp.146-147)
• Parfit, "What Makes Someone's Life Go Best?" (pp.162-168)
• Smart, "Extreme and Restricted Utilitarianism" (pp.204-211)
• Hospers, "Rule Utilitarianism" (pp.229-238)
• Williams, "Against Utilitarianism" (pp.219-228)
• Singer, "Famine, Affluence, and Morality" (pp.242-249)

• Ayer, "Emotivism" (pp.471-478)
• Mackie, "The Subjectivity of Values" (pp.446-456)
• Harman, "Moral Nihilism" (pp.517-526)
• Sturgeon, "Moral Explanations" (pp.526-537)
• Williams, "Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy" (pp.538-549)
• Russell, "Two Forms of Ethical Skepticism" (pp.549-561)
• Smith, "Defense of Moral Realism" (pp.562-572)

• Mavrodes, "Religion and the Queerness of Morality" (pp.584-592)
• Nagel, "Value: The View from Nowhere" (pp.169-178)
• Ross, "What Makes Right Acts Right?" (pp.275-283)
• Foot, "Morality as a System of Hypothetical Imperatives" (pp.302-308)
• Hare, "Prescriptivism: The Structure of Ethics and Morals" (pp.478-486)
• Ruse, "Evolution and Ethics: The Sociobiological Approach" (pp.618-633)
• Gewirth, "The Objective Status of Moral Rights" (pp.62-74)
• Gauthier, "Morality and Advantage" (pp.93-100)

• Harman, "Moral Relativism Defended" (pp.52-61)
• Gauthier, "Why Contractarianism?" (pp.336-345)
• Rawls, "Liberal Contractualism: Justice as Fairness" (pp.346-358)
• Scanlon, "Contractualism and Utilitarianism" (pp.350-369)

This schedule is subject to change.