Readings & Handouts
Introductory
How to Philosophize (pdf)
A Philosophy Dictionary (pdf)
What is Ethical Theory About?
- 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)
Why Should we be Good?
- 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 90 - 112 (pdf)
Does Moral Assessment Require Control?
- Bernard Williams - Moral Luck (Ch2) (pdf) / handout (pdf)
- Thomas Nagel - Mortal Questions (Ch3) (pdf)
- Duncan Pritchard and Lee John Whittington - The Philosophy of Luck (pdf)
- Duncan Pritchard - Moral and Epistemic Luck (pdf)
- Michael Zimmerman - Moral Luck: A Partial Map (pdf)
- Rik Peels - A Modal Solution to the Problem of Moral Luck (pdf)
- Susan Wolf - The Moral of Moral Luck (pdf)
- David Enoch and Andrei Marmor - The Case Against Moral Luck (pdf)
- Julia Driver - Luck and Fortune in Moral Evaluation (Ch8) (pdf)
What is Value?
- Rønnow-Rasmussen and Michael Zimmerman - Recent Work on Intrinsic Value (pdf)