SAIC Bioethics, Spring 2018
Course Information
Readings
Meeting: 9/10
Rachels, “The Challenge of Cultural Relativism”
Huemer, “Ethical Intuitionism”
Meeting: 9/17
Rachels, “The Debate over Utilitarianism”
Ross, “What Makes Right Acts Right?”
Nozick, “The Experience Machine”
Meeting: 9/24
Greene – “Moral Dilemmas and the Trolley Problem”
Nozick – “Distributive Justice”
Meeting: 10/1
Lipkin – “On Telling Patients the Truth”
Meeting: 10/8
Goldman – “The Moral Argument”
Cullen & Klein – “Respect for Patients, Physicians, and the Truth”
Meeting: 10/15
Rachels – “Active and Passive Euthanasia”
Brock – “Voluntary Active Euthanasia”
Arras – “The Likelihood of Abuse”
Meeting: 10/22
Marquis – “Why Abortion is Immoral”
Thomson – “A Defense of Abortion”
Meeting: 10/29
Warren – “On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion”
Tooley – “In Defense of Abortion and Infanticide”
Meeting: 11/5
Singer – “All Animals are Equal”
Cohen – “The Case for the Use of Animals”
Norcross – “Puppies, Pigs, and the Use of Animals”
Meeting: 11/12
Brody – “Ethical Issues in Clinical Trials”
Angell – “Ethics of Clinical Trials in the 3rd World”
Meeting: 11/19
Kass – “The Wisdom of Repugnance”
Meeting: 11/26
Glover – “Questions about Genetic Engineering”
Glannon – “Genetic Enhancement”
Meeting: 12/3
Wilkinson – “Genetic Information is not Exceptional”
Singer – “IVF: The Simple Case”
Steinback – “Respect for Embryos”
Meeting: 12/10
Radcliffe – “Allowing Kidney Sales”
Moss and Siegler – “Alcoholics and Liver Transplantation”
Meeting: 12/17
Beverley – "The Ties that Undermine”
Beverley and Beebe – “Judgments of Moral Responsibility in Tissue Donation Cases”
Homework (Solutions posted after the due date)
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Exams (Solutions to exams provided after the due date)
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