I taught Contemporary Moral Problems at UT Austin during the Fall 2018 semester. You can review my materials below. If you have any questions, comments, or requests, please feel free to contact me.
Lectures:
- Course Teaser: The Trolley Problem (Week 1)
- Arguments (Week 2)
- Necessary and Sufficient Conditions (Week 2)
- Deductive and Inductive Reasoning (Week 3)
- Metaethics: A Crash Course (Week 3)
- Normative Ethics: A Crash Course (Week 4)
- Animal Ethics (Week 5)
- Abortion: Personal Identity and Moral Status (Week 6)
- Abortion: Bodily Rights (Week 7)
- Procreation: Why Have Children? (Week 8)
- Procreation: Anti-natalism (Week 8)
- Effective Altruism (Week 9)
- Charitable Giving and the All-or-Nothing Problem (Week 9)
- Climate Change Ethics (Week 10)
- Affirmative Action (Week 11)
- Sex, Lies, and Consent (Week 12)
- The Mind–Body Problem and the Ethics of AI (Student Selected Topic) (Week 14)
- Euthanasia (Student Selected Topic) (Week 15)
- Coda (Week 16)
Assignments:
- Reading Response Assignment #1
- Reading Response Assignment #2
- Reading Response Assignment #3
- Reading Response Assignment #4
- Reading Response Assignment #5
- Reading Response Assignment #6
- Discussion Section Debate #1
- Discussion Section Debate #2
- Discussion Section Debate #3
- Discussion Section Debate #4
- Find-a-Flaw Assignment
- Final Paper Prompts
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