follow the instruction
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Intro: “We Will Not Be Missed!” (no required reading) |
Jan 10 |
Anastasia Berg & Rachel Wiseman, What Are Children For? Chapter Four, “To Be Or…?” (pp. 169-190) |
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Week 2 |
Jan 15 |
David Benatar, “Why It Is Better Never to Come into Existence” |
Jan 17 |
Seana Shiffrin, “Wrongful Life, Procreative Responsibility, and the Significance of Harm” |
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Week 3 |
Jan 22 |
Philippa Foot, “The Problem of Abortion and the Doctrine of the Double Effect”; G. E. M. Anscombe “Who is Wronged? Philipps Foot on Double Effect: One Point”” |
Jan 24 |
Judith Jarvis Thomson, “A Defense of Abortion” |
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Week 4 |
Jan 25 |
Don Marquis, “Why Abortion is Immoral” |
Jan 31 |
Alberto Giubilini, Francesca Minerva “After-Birth Abortion: Why Should the Baby Live?” |
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Week 5 |
Feb 5 |
Ronald Dworkin, Thomas Nagel, Robert Nozick, John Rawls, Judith Jarvis Thomson, and T.M. Scanlon, “Assisted Suicide: The Philosophers’ Brief” |
Feb 7 |
David Velleman “A Right to Self Termination” those are readings |