Utilitarianism

8/22 - 9/12

• Shaw, "The Consequentialist Perspective" (SL 49)
• Nozick, "The Experience Machine" (SL 30)
• Parfit, "What Makes Someone's Life Go Best?" (SL 35)
• Smart, "Extreme and Restricted Utilitarianism" (SL 50)
• Hooker, "Rule-Consequentialism" (SL 51)
• Hare, "What is Wrong with Slavery?" (SL 52)
• Singer, "Famine, Affluence, and Morality" (SL 53)

• Ayer, "A Critique of Ethics" (SL 2)
• Mackie, "The Subjectivity of Values" (SL 3)
• Harman, "Ethics and Observation" (SL 4)
• Shafer-Landau, "Ethics as Philosophy: A Defense of Ethical Nonnaturalism" (SL 8)
• Smith, "Moral Realism" (SL 9)

• Rachels, "Ethical Egoism" (SL 21)
• Craig & Sinnott-Armstrong, "God and Objective Morality: A Debate" (SL 25)
• Ross, "What Makes Right Acts Right?" (SL 72)
• Foot, "Morality as a System of Hypothetical Imperatives" (SL 16)
• Gewirth, "The Golden Rule Rationalized" (SL 59)

• Nozick, "The Rationality of Side Constraints" (SL 58)
• Foot, "The Problem of Abortion and the Doctrine of Double Effect" (SL 60)
• Thomson, "Killing, Letting Die, and the Trolley Problem" (SL 61)
• Dancy, "An Unprincipled Morality" (SL 74)

• Harman, "Moral Relativism Defended" (SL 5)
• Gauthier, "Why Contractarianism?" (SL 63)
• Rawls, "A Theory of Justice" (SL 64)
• Scanlon, "Contractualism and Utilitarianism" (SL 65)

This schedule is subject to change.