●          For Weds., 9/7: Read pp. 1-33 of the text. Go over exercises on pp. 32-33.

●          For Fri. 9/9: Read pp. 33-52 of the text. Go over exercises on pp. 48-49.

●          For Quiz #1: see the lecture notes for 9/7/05 for a list of exercise questions that illustrate what the questions on the quiz will be like. The quiz will be during the second half of class on Friday.

●          For Mon. 9/12: Read Ch. 3, pp. 55-80.

●          For Wed. 9/14: Finish reading Ch. 3.

●          For Fri. 9/16: Read Ch. 4.

●          For Quiz 2: Exercises reviewed in class on 9/14 provide good examples of the sorts of questions that will be on the quiz. Material from Ch. 4 may be on the test also. Questions might be along the lines of 1-2 on p. 100 and 1-2 on p. 107. We will discuss this topic during the first half of class on 9/16. Test questions may include some short answer or true/false questions similar to #1 on p. 78 and #1 on p. 92-3. You will be asked to identify the patterns of some simple arguments, along the lines of what we did in class today (9/14). These questions will be similar to #2, p. 79-80. There may be a simple argument that you are asked to rewrite so that it follows one of the patterns, similar to the last example in class today.

●          For Mon. 9/19: Read Ch. 5, Sections I-IV.

●          For Wed. 9/21: Finish reading Ch. 5.

●          For Quiz 3: This will cover material from Ch. 5. Some questions will be T/F or short answer questions that require understanding the key terms from this chapter. Review the list on p. 147. Other questions will ask you to reconstruct some very simple arguments, along the lines of the ones reviewed in class on 9/21. There may be a question in which you are given a short passage and a partial reconstruction of it. You will be asked to fill in the rest of the reconstruction. It’s also possible that there will be a mistake in the reconstruction and you will be asked to correct it.

●          For Mon. 9/26: Read Ch. 6.

●          For Quiz 4: This will cover material from Ch. 6. It will be similar to the examples covered in class this week: fine-tuning reconstructions. In class on Friday, we will finish up the example we’ve been discussing, and then look at Exercise 4, p. 166.

●          For Mon. 10/3: Read Ch. 7, Sections I, II, and IIIA.

●          For Wed. 10/5 - Fri. 10/7: Finish reading Ch. 7. We will go over exercises 4 and 5, pp. 192-5.

●          For Quiz 5: This will cover material from Ch. 7. Some exercise to review in preparation: p. 174, #1,2; p. 177, #1, 3; p. 187, #2, 3, 5; p. 194, #5; p. 201, #6. Possibly there will be a question about p. 194, #5. If so, a copy of the essay will be provided with the quiz.

●          For Mon. 10/10: No new assignment. We will finish Ch. 7.

●          For Wed. 10/12: Read the article, “Shouting ‘Fire’” that was distributed in class.

●          No new assignment for 10/14. The quiz on 10/19 will cover the material from chapter 7, including the points about arguments and language, and analogies discussed in class.

●          There will be a quiz on Wed. 10/19. There is no reading assignment.

●          For Fri. 10/21: Read Ch. 8 and Ch. 9, Section I.

●          For Mon. 10/24: Read Ch. 9, Section II-IV.

●          For Wed. 10/26: Finish reading Ch. 9.

●          Quiz 7 will be Fri. 10/28. It will cover more material than previous quizzes. You should be familiar the material on explanations (from class) and on three kinds of arguments: testimonial arguments (Ch. 8), past to future arguments (Ch. 9, section I), and statistical arguments (Ch. 9, Sections II-V). Be sure you understand the key terms. Some exercises that it would be useful to look at are: p. 225, esp. #1, 3, and 6; p. 236, #1, 2, 3; pp. 253-5, #1, 2, 4, 7; p. 267, #3.

●          For Mon. 10/31: Read Ch. 10, Sections 1-III.

●          For Wed. 11/2: Finish reading Ch. 10. Review the following exercises: #5, p. 308; #12, p. 311; #12, p. 326. (We probably will not get to this last one until Friday.)

●          The quiz on Friday will cover Ch. 10. The exercises mentioned above will be good preparation. Be sure that you understand the key terms from this chapter.

●          For Mon. 11/7: Read Ch. 11, Sections I, II, and IIIA-B (through p. 349).

●          For Wed. 11/9: Finish reading Ch. 11. Some exercises to review: p. 335, #7; p. 356, #12; pp. 368-76, #7, #9, #13.

●          For Fri. 11/11: Quiz 9 will cover material from Ch. 11. You will not be given a long passage and asked to analyze the argument it contains. You should understand the idea that moral arguments need moral premises, what simple moral arguments are, how the overall value principle works, and what moral inconsistency arguments are. Good exercises to prepare: pp. 354-6, #1-3, 5, 8-10; p. 365, #3.

●          Homework Assignment 1 is due on Monday, Nov. 21. You can get the assignment here.

●          For Mon. 11/14: No new assignment. Review exercises 7, 9, and 13 from pp. 368-76.

●          For Wed. 11/16: Read pp. 377-390. Be prepared to discuss the exercises on p. 390.

●          For Fri. 11/18: Quiz 10 will cover the material in exercise 1, pp. 397-401. It will be an open book quiz.

●          Homework Assignment 2 is due on Monday, Dec. 5. You can get the assignment here.

●          For the week of Nov. 28-Dec. 2: Read the essays in the Barnet and Bedau volume on Cell Phones (pp. 20-23) for Mon. Nov. 28, the essays on Censorship (pp. 24-28) for Wed. Nov. 30, and Gun Control (pp. 36-52) for Fri. Dec. 2.

●          For Wed, Dec. 7: read the essays on the permissibility of torture, pp. 192-203.

●          For Fri. Dec. 9: read the essays on privacy, pp. 151-74.

●          The final assignment is due on Thursday, Dec. 15. You can get information about it: here.

 

 

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Last updated: December 7, 2005 by Richard Feldman