Course Schedule This schedule is subject to change!

Lecture	Date	Topic	Homework
Epistemology/Metaphysics
1	Mon, Jan 13	Course introduction
2	Wed, Jan 15	Descartes' Meditations (I-II)
	Mon, Jan 20	MLK Day
3	Wed, Jan 22	Descartes' Meditations (III)
4	Mon, Jan 27	Descartes' Meditations (IV)	Sum 1 assigned
5	Wed, Jan 29	Descartes' Meditations (V-VI)
6	Mon, Feb 03	Gettier's "Justified True Beliefs"	Sum 1 due
7	Wed, Feb 05	Russell "On Induction"
8	Mon, Feb 10	Review
9	Wed, Feb 12	Exam
Ethics
10	Mon, Feb 17	Plato, "Euthyphro"
11	Wed, Feb 19	Aristotle, "Nichomachean Ethics"
12	Mon, Feb 24	Aristotle (cont.)	Sum 2 assigned
13	Wed, Feb 26	Kant, "Grounding for Metaphysics of Morals"
14	Mon, Mar 02	Kant (cont.)	Sum 2 due
15	Wed, Mar 04	Kant (cont.)
	Mon, Mar 09	Spring break
	Wed, Mar 11	Spring break
16	Mon, Mar 16	Mill, "Understanding and Defending Utilitarianism"
17	Wed, Mar 18	Mill (cont.)
18	Mon, Mar 23	Korsgaard "What Is Wrong with Lying?"
19	Wed, Mar 25	Review
20	Mon, Mar 30	Exam
Applied Ethics
21	Wed, Apr 01	Thomson, "A Defense of Abortion"
22	Mon, Apr 06	Marquis, "An Argument that Abortion is Wrong"
23	Wed, Apr 08	Foot, "The Problem of Abortion and the Doctrine of Double Effect"
24	Mon, Apr 13	Rachels, "Active and Passive Euthanasia"
25	Wed, Apr 15	Singer, "Famine, Affluence and Morality"
	Mon, Apr 20	Patriots' Day
26	Tue, Apr 21	Nagel, "War and Massacre"
27	Wed, Apr 22	TBA
28	Mon, Apr 27	Review
	Thu, Apr 30	Exam
	11:30-1:30

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