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Fall 2001: Alma College

• FAQ: How are the Grades Calculated?
• Answer: Like so.  (Note: the example calculation is from a different course [PHL100, CMU, F00].  Components and their weightings for your course may differ.)

• Syllabus (as updated 3/4/02)
• 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) ( 9/7/01)
2. Arguments (Ch. 2) (9/10/01)
3. Format for Clarifying (Ch. 3) (9/17/01)
4. Streamlining (Ch. 4) (9/20/01)
5. Specifying (Ch. 5) (9/25/01)
6. Structuring (Ch. 6) (9/29/01)
7. Format for Evaluating (Ch. 7) (10/6/01)
8. Fallacies (Ch. 8) (10/9/01)
9. Truth (Ch. 9)  (10/11/01)
10. Deductive Logic (Ch. 10) (10/25/01)
11. If-Then Arguments (Ch. 11) (11/03/01)
• Secondary Assumptions and the Fallacy of Accident (Handout)
• Fallacy of Accident Exercise Answers
12. Either-Or Arguments (Ch. 12) (11/06/01)
13. Induction & Frequency Arguments (Ch. 13) (11/17/01)
14. Inductive Generalization (Ch. 14) (11/27/01)
15. Arguments from Analogy (Ch. 15) (04/02/02)

PHL126: Introduction to Values (TTh 11:30-12:50)

• Syllabus (as updated 3/4/02)
• Final Study Guide: Exam "Questions"
• Online Discussion Forum: Forum Contribution Worksheet
• Philosophy Comix: Ethics
• Texts
• The Elements of Moral Philosophy 2nd 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
• Schedule of Presentations & Survey Results
• Student Essays
• Affirmative Action: Should it be Mended or Ended? by Beatrice Chege
• Shallow Ecology, Deep Ecology, and Environmental Action by Adel C. Wentworth
• On Environmental Ethics by Andrew McCracken
• Rich vs. Poor by Allison Treloar
• Insiders and Outsiders by John Gardai
• The Great Immigration Debate by Katie Kooyers
• The Case Against America's War on Drugs by Clark Abel
• Lecture Outlines
• Rachels: Elements of Moral Philosophy (2nd edition)
• What is Morality? (Rachels, Ch. 1)
• Cultural Relativism (Rachels, Ch. 2)
• 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)
• 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
• Equality and Affirmative Action (Singer, Ch. 1-2)
• Equality for Animals (Singer, Ch. 3)
• What's Wrong With Killing (Singer, Ch. 4)
• Killing Animals (Singer, Ch. 5)
• Fetal Rights: Abortion, Stem Cell Research, & Cloning (Singer, Ch. 6)
• Killing Humans: Euthanasia (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)

PHL112: Survey of Western Philosophy II (Modern) (TTh 2:30-3:50)

• Midterm Study Guide
• Final Study Guide
• Syllabus (as updated 3/4/02)
• 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 (1/9/02) | Just Quotes (1/9/02)
• Hobbes: Lecture Notes (1/11/02) | Just Quotes(1/9/02)
• 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
• Selections from The Tbeodicy
• Locke:
• Lecture Notes
• Just Quotes
• Ideas and Empiricism
• Substance, Power, Freedom, & Identity
• Berkeley: Lecture Notes | Just Quotes
• Hume: Personal Identity (excerpt from Hume's Treatise)
• Lecture Notes | Just Quotes
• Lecture Notes | Just Quotes
• Kant: Kaacza's Stereogram Collection | Heaven Photographed!
• Critque of Metaphysics: Lecture Notes | Just Quotes
• Faith and Morality: Lecture Notes | Just Quotes
• Hegel: Lecture Notes (now available) | Just Quotes
• Hegel's System (W.T. Stace's Outline)
• Schopenhauer: Lecture Notes (now available) | Just Quotes
• Utilitarianism & Comte: Lecture Notes | Just Quotes
• Marx: Lecture Notes | Just Quotes
• Kierkegaard: Lecture Notes | Just Quotes
• Nietzsche:  Lecture Notes (now available) | Just Quotes
• Onsite Resources
• LH's Philosophy Bookshelf
• LH's Philosophy Resources, Etc.: History of Philosophy
• LH's Mainly Modern Philosophical Glossary
• LH's Philosophy Resources, Etc.: History of Philosophy.
• Online Resources
• Onsite
• LH's Philosophy Bookshelf
• LH's Philosophy Resources, Etc.: History of Philosophy
• LH's Mainly Modern Philosophical Glossary

• 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
• Middle East News Service

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