Final Reminder

By the close of today, CMI will be over.  Please recall that the third and final essay is due (over email) on or before Friday, December 17.  I will simply average the three grades to determine final grades for the course.  Happy holidays.

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Assignment #9: World Hunger and Moral Obligation

 1.  Read: world hunger and moral obligation packet (forthcoming class handout).

Supplemental: 

"The Tragedy of the Tragedy of the Commons"

Assignment #8: Torture

 Read: Jamie Mayerfeld, "In Defense of the Absolute Prohibition of Torture"

Supplemental: "Tortured Ethics" (Silliman & Braden-Johnson):
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LufUz9BTaM8KnrG6fM2OUxx5SGRCAOtYd0AHZtc2tOc/edit?usp=sharing&authkey=CKn36NoJ

Assignment #7: Art and Morality

 1. Read: Kieran, "Art, Morality and Ethics"

http://static1.1.sqspcdn.com/static/f/816567/24384087/1392555732063/Kieran+Compass+Art+and+Moral+Character.pdf?token=YxTcb6jg9KoYZlZOa%2BvYc%2FnSRHA%3D

Assignment #6: Paternalism and Vaccination

 1. Read: Giubilini, "An Argument for Compulsory Vaccination."

Reminder: Topics/outlines for paper #2 due Monday, 11/15; and final essays due Monday 11/22.

Assignment #5: Abortion and Animal Rights (updated re plants)

 1. Read: Kathie Jenni, "Dilemmas in Social Philosophy: Abortion and Animal Rights":

https://www.jstor.org/stable/23560312

Supplemental: Silliman and Braden-Johnson, "Multicriterial Value Incrementalism"

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_Ok_EXn3Gk7B3AqmPbFxf7KtV1dpoVv_xUtF9KCSbWU/edit

2. Two contrasting positions with respect to the moral status of plants:

1. https://ideas4development.org/en/ethics-living-being-plant/

2. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/22243534.2019.1697092

See also, Francione, "What about Plants?"

Assignment #4: Abortion and essay #1

 1. Read Warren and Gensler from the supplied handout.

Paper #1 due: October 13, in hard copy, in class.