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• Syllabus
• Online Discussion Forum |  Forum Contribution Worksheet
• Texts
• Required: A Guide to Good Reasoning, David C. Wilson, McGraw-Hill Inc.
• Recommended: Student Solutions Manual, David C. Wilson, McGraw-Hill Inc.
• Philosophy Comix: Logic & Language
• Lecture Outlines
1. Good Reasoning (Ch. 1) 
2. Arguments (Ch. 2) 
3. Format for Clarifying (Ch. 3) {revised 9/17/03}
4. Streamlining (Ch. 4) 
5. Specifying (Ch. 5) {revised 10/5/03}
• Life's a Pitch: Unclear and Ambiguous Advertisements
  
• Lexicon of Intentionally Ambiguous Recommendations
  
6. Structuring (Ch. 6)  {revised 10/1/03}
7. Format for Evaluating (Ch. 7)  {revised 10/7/03}
8. Fallacies (Ch. 8)  {revised 10/8/03}
9. Truth (Ch. 9)   {revised 10/20/03}
10. Deductive Logic (Ch. 10) {revised 10/22/03}
11. If-Then Arguments (Ch. 11) {revised 10/27/03}
• Secondary Assumptions and the Fallacy of Accident (Handout) {revised 10/27/03}
• Fallacy of Accident Exercise Answers {revised 10/29/03}
12. Either-Or Arguments (Ch. 12) {revised 11/03/03}
13. Induction & Frequency Arguments (Ch. 13) {revised 11/10/03}
14. Inductive Generalization (Ch. 14)  {revised 11/10/03}
15. Arguments from Analogy (Ch. 15) {revised 11/24/03}

• Midterm Study Guide
• Final Study Guide
• Syllabus 
• Texts:
• Required: W. T. Jones, A History of Western Philosophy Volume 3: Hobbes to Hume (2nd edition); A History of Western Philosophy Volume 4: Kant and the Nineteenth Century (2nd edition revised).
• Optional Research: Primary sources online at LH's Online Philosophy Bookshelf
• Discussion Forums: Forum Contribution Worksheet
• Modern Philosophy Discussion
• Undead Discussion: The Lonely: Was Alicia a Woman?
• Philosophy Comix: History
• Model Commentary
• Term Papers
• Guidelines & Suggestions
• Topic Suggestions ... or any thesis from primary or secondary sources
• Pleasure: The First Good Innate in Us by Reannon Broekema (exemplary student essay)
• Lecture Notes and Handouts: *ed items coming soom
• Machiavelli & Bacon: Lecture Notes | Just Quotes 
• Hobbes: Lecture Notes | Just Quotes {revised 9/1/03}
• Descartes: Lecture Notes | Just Quotes
• Discourse on Method Part 5 (exerpt)
• Spinoza: Lecture Notes | Just Quotes
• Definitions of the Emotions
• Leibniz: Lecture Notes | Just Quotes {revised 9/24/03}
• Selections from The Theodicy
• Locke: 
  • Ideas and Empiricism: Lecture Notes  | Just Quotes {revised 10/1/03}
  • Substance, Power, Freedom, & Identity: Lecture Notes | Just Quotes {revised 10/2/03}
    
• Berkeley: Lecture Notes | Just Quotes {revised 10/5/03}
• Hume: Personal Identity (excerpt from Hume's Treatise)
• Lecture Notes  | Just Quotes {revised 10/20/03}
• Lecture Notes | Just Quotes {revised 10/20/03}
• Kant: Kaacza's Stereogram Collection | Heaven Photographed!
• Critque of Pure Reason
• Preface, Overview, & Introduction: Lecture Notes | Just Quotes {revised 10/22/03}
• Transcendental Aesthetics, Logic, and 2nd Analogy: Lecture Notes | Just Quotes {revised 10/25/03}
  
• Faith and Morality: Lecture Notes | Just Quotes {revised 11/3/03}
• Hegel: Lecture Notes | Just Quotes {revised 11/05/03
• Hegel's System (W.T. Stace's Outline)
• http://www.hegel.org/ | http://www.hegel.net/ | http://www.gwfhegel.org/
• Schopenhauer: Lecture Notes | Just Quotes {revised 11/10/03
• http://www.friesian.com/arthur.htm
  
• Utilitarianism & Positivism: Lecture Notes | Just Quotes {revised 11/10/03
• Bentham Project:http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Bentham-Project/
• Comte and Positivism:http://www.multimania.com/clotilde/home.htm
• Marx: Lecture Notes | Just Quotes {revised 11/15/03}
• http://csf.colorado.edu/mirrors/marxists.org/
• Kierkegaard: Lecture Notes | Just Quotes {revised 11/17/03}
• Nietzsche:  Lecture Notes | Just Quotes {revised 11/24/03}
• More On Site Resources
  
• LH's Philosophy Bookshelf
• LH's Philosophy Resources, Etc.: History of Philosophy
• LH's Mainly Modern Philosophical Glossary
• More Off Site Resources
  
• http://www.philosophypages.com/
• http://plato.stanford.edu/: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  

PHL126: Introduction to Values (TTh 2:30-3:50)

• Syllabus
• Final Study Guide: Exam "Questions"
• Online Discussion Forum: Forum Contribution Worksheet
• Philosophy Comix: Ethics
• Texts
• The Elements of Moral Philosophy 4th edition, James Rachels, McGraw-Hill Inc.
• Text: Practical Ethics, Peter Singer, Cambridge University Press.
• Model Commentaries: Theses
• On the Golden Rule: Anonymous | Chardin S. Claybourne
• On Cultural Relativism: Karen Brunsting | Christi Boldrey
• Term Paper Guidelines and Suggestions {revised 10/20/03}
  
• Schedule of Presentations & Survey Results
• Student Essays
• Affirmative Action: Should it be Mended or Ended? by Beatrice Chege
• Animal Use and Abuse: Issues and Alternatives by Sara Travis
• Animal Experimentation and Research: An Unresolved Debate by Jennie Simms
  
• Murdering our Future Generation by Anne Westerman
• Abortion: Rights vs. Responsibility by Miriam Zinger
• Mercy Killing by Brianne Hauser
• Rich vs. Poor by Allison Treloar
• Rich v. Poor by Joe Bush
• Rich vs. Poor: Distributing the World’s Wealth Equally by Lindsey Thelen
  
• The Necessity of Giving Aid by Alicia Allen
• Insiders and Outsiders by John Gardai
• The Great Immigration Debate by Katie Kooyers
• Bring 'em on: Immigration Fallacies and Facts by Jennifer Cornacchione
  
• On Environmental Ethics by Andrew McCracken
• Shallow Ecology, Deep Ecology, and Environmental Action by Adel C. Wentworth
• Are Things Really That Bad? by Teresa J. Miller
• The Case Against America's War on Drugs by Clark Abel
• Civil Disobedience by Elizabeth Pitts
• Civil Disobedience by Kristi Roberts
  
• Unjust Laws by Nick D'Aigle
• Why Be Moral: A Purpose to Life by James Hunsanger
• Lecture Outlines: New & Old
• Rachels: Elements of Moral Philosophy (4th edition)
• What is Morality? (Rachels, Ch. 1) 
• Cultural Relativism (Rachels, Ch. 2) {revised 9/4/03}
• Subjectivism (Rachels, Ch. 3)
• Morality and Religion (Rachels, Ch. 4)
• Psychological Egoism (Rachels, Ch. 5)
• Ethical Egoism (Rachels, Ch. 6)
• The Utilitarian Approach (Rachels, Ch.7) {revised 9/17/03}
  
• Debate Over Utilitarianism (Rachels, Ch. 8)
• Are There Absolute Moral Rules (Rachels, Ch. 9)
• Kant and Respect for Persons (Rachels, Ch. 10)
• The Idea of a Social Contract (Rachels, Ch. 11)
• Feminism and the Ethics of Care (Rachels, Ch. 12)
• The Ethics of Virtue (Rachels, Ch. 13)
• Singer: Practical Ethics
• Ethics and Equality (Singer, Ch. 1-2)
• Equality for Animals (Singer, Ch. 3)
• What's Wrong With Killing (Singer, Ch. 4)
• Killing Animals (Singer, Ch. 5)
• Taking Fetal Life: Abortion (Singer, Ch. 6)
• Mercy Killing (Singer, Ch. 7)
• Rich and Poor (Singer, Ch. 8)
• Refugees and Immigration (Singer, Ch. 9)
• Environmental Ethics (Singer, Ch. 10)
• Law & Morality: Unjust Laws, Civil Disobedience, Insurrection, & Terrorism (Singer, Ch.11)

• Materials on the Internet: Cautionary Note: Let the Browser Beware!
• Alma Online Forums
• LH's Philosophy Resources, Etc.
• Search Engine(s)
• LH's Philosophy Bookshelf
• APA Guide to Nonsexist Writing
• Guidelines on Writing a Philosophy Paper from James Pryor of Harvard
• Blackwell's Glossary of Philosophical Terms
• LH's Mainly Modern Philosophical Glossary
• Middle East News Service

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