Utilitarianism

1/13 - 2/3

• Smart, "Extreme and Restricted Utilitarianism" (pp.307-315)
• Brandt, "Some Merits of One Form of Rule-Utilitarianism" (pp.418-436)
• Rawls, "Two Concepts of Rules" (pp.273-290) [deleted 1/22/98]
• Williams, "A Critique of Utilitarianism" (pp.457-475)
• Parfit, "Later Selves and Moral Principles" (pp.476-496)
• Williams, "Persons, Character and Morality" (pp.634-646)

• Moore, "The Subject Matter of Ethics" (pp.12-32)
• Frankena, "The Naturalistic Fallacy" (pp.129-138)
• Lewy, "G.E. Moore and the Naturalistic Fallacy" (pp.400-407)

• Ayer, "A Critique of Ethics" (pp.108-115)
• Stevenson, "The Emotive Meaning of Ethical Terms" (pp.116-128)
• Stevenson, "The Nature of Ethical Disagrement" (pp.139-144)
• Blanshard, "The New Subjectivism in Ethics" (pp.183-188) [added 1/22/98]

• Hare, "A Moral Argument" (pp.386-399)
• Searle, "How to Derive `Ought' from `Is'" (pp.408-417)
• Gauthier, "Morality and Advantage" (pp.437-446)
• Foot, "Morality as a System of Hypothetical Imperatives" (pp.448-456)
• Gewirth, "The "Is-Ought" Problem Resolved" (pp.500-518)
• Harman, "Moral Relativism Defended" (pp.519-530)
• Nagel, "Value" (pp.605-616)

• Scanlon, "Contractualism and Utilitarianism" (pp.647-666)
• Gauthier, "Why Contractarianism?" (pp.701-713) [deleted 4/7/98]

• Ross, "What Makes Right Acts Right?" (pp.87-105)
• Nagel, "Moral Luck" (pp.573-582)
• Scheffler, "Morality's Demands and Their Limits" (pp.667-672)
• Marcus, "Moral Dilemmas and Consistency" (pp.594-604)

• Mackie, "A Refutation of Morals" (pp.145-152)
• Firth, "Ethical Absolutism and the Ideal Observer" (pp.225-246) [deleted 4/7/98]
• Railton, "Moral Realism" (pp.673-700)

This schedule is subject to change.