TA: PHIL 140 Contemporary Moral Issues:
Spring 2008 Sections 0103, 0106, 0107
Spring 2007 Sections 0202,0206,0207
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Spring 2007
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Phil 140 Spring 2008 Discussion Notes
February 1 discussion notes: Basic terms and notions covered in week 1
February 8 discussion notes: Remarks on Logic & Kant & Mill
February 15 discussion notes: Euthanasia & Rachels vis-a-vis virtue, consequentialist, and duty ethics
February 22 (canceled discussion section) questions : Brock and Hardwig
February 29 discussion notes: Hardwig (closing notions), Roe vs Wade
March 7 discussion notes: Judith Jarvis Thompson & Mary Anne Warren
Midterm Exam Statistics
March 28 discussion notes: Marquis, Singer, and Regan
April 4 discussion notes: Mary Anne Warren, James Rachels
April 11 discussion notes: Ernst van den Haag, Jeffery Reiman
April 18 discussion notes: Recommendations on paper #2, Primoratz, Bedau
April 25 discussion notes: Lackey, Sterba
May 2 discussion notes: Walzer's Two Articles
May 9 discussion notes: Paper 2 grade statistics Khatchadourian & Sterba
Phil 140 Spring 2007 Discussion Notes
Common Argument Fallacies and examples
February 2nd Discussion Notes
February 9th Discussion Notes
February 16th Discussion Notes
February 23rd Discussion Notes
March 2nd Discussion Notes
March 9th Discussion Notes
March 30th Discussion Notes
April 7th Discussion Notes
April 13th Discussion Notes
April 20th Discussion Notes
April 27th Discussion Notes
May 4th Discussion Notes
Plato and Aristotle (Rafaello-1510)