Readings & Handouts
Introductory
How to Philosophize (pdf)
A Philosophy Dictionary (pdf)
Section 1 - Foundations
- Mark van Roojen - Metaethics: A Contemporary Introduction (pdf)
- G.E. Moore - Principia Ethica (pdf) / handout (pdf)
- Christine Korsgaard - Two Distinctions in Goodness (pdf) / handout (pdf)
- Moore vs. Korsgaard Handout (pdf)
- J.L. Mackie - Inventing Right and Wrong (read ch1) (pdf) / handout (pdf)
- A.J. Ayer - Language, Truth, and Logic (read ch6) (pdf) / handout (pdf)
Section 2 - Normativity
- Christine Korsgaard - Sources of Normativity (pdf)
Chapter 1
- Handout - Pages 7 - 27 (pdf)
- Handout - Pages 28 - 48 (pdf)
- Handout - Chapter 1 Summary Table (pdf)
Chapter 2
- Handout - Pages 49 - 71 (pdf)
- Handout - Pages 71 - 89 (pdf)
- Handout - Chapter 2 Summary Table (pdf)
Chapter 3
- Handout - Korsgaard pgs 90 - 112 (pdf)
- Handout - Korsgaard pgs 112 - 130 (pdf)
Section 3 - Moral Luck
- Bernard Williams - Moral Luck (Ch2) (pdf) / handout (pdf)
- Thomas Nagel - Mortal Questions (Ch3) (pdf) / handout (pdf)
- Duncan Pritchard - Moral and Epistemic Luck (pdf) / handout (pdf)
- Michael Zimmerman - Moral Luck: A Partial Map (pdf) / handout (pdf)
- Rik Peels - A Modal Solution to the Problem of Moral Luck (pdf) / handout (pdf)
- Duncan Pritchard and Lee John Whittington - The Philosophy of Luck (Ch12) (pdf) / handout (pdf)
- Susan Wolf - The Moral of Moral Luck (pdf) / handout (pdf)
- Julia Driver - Luck and Fortune in Moral Evaluation (Ch8) (pdf) / handout (pdf)
- David Enoch and Andrei Marmor - The Case Against Moral Luck (pdf) / handout (pdf)
Section 4 - Potpouri
- John Stuart Mill - Utilitarianism (excerpts) (pdf) / handout (pdf)
- Robert Nozick - The Examined Life (pdf) / handout (pdf)
- W.D. Ross - The Right and The Good (Ch2) (pdf) / handout (pdf)
- Robert Audi - The Good in The Right (Ch1) (pdf) / handout (pdf)
- Peter Singer - Ethics and Intuitions (pdf) / handout (pdf)
- Ernest Sosa - Can There Be a Discipline of Philosophy And Can It Be Founded on Intuitions.pdf (pdf) / handout (pdf)