HOMEWORK

=TERM 3, 2011 - APPLIED PHILOSOPHY AND ETHICS=


 * Discussion: Gay Marriage Bill debate (New York and locally)**


 * Reading: "What's Wrong with Gay Sex?" (**//**The Philosophy Gym)**//

//Complete the questions on the handout: (paper only - see Mr. Beekman if you don't have a copy of this)//

Read: "Is Morality Like a Pair of Spectacles"
Complete the questions on the handout. [|Is morality like a pair of spectacles-1.doc]
 * Due: 25/07/11**

Week 2-3

 * Utilitarianism:**

Reading: "Killing Mary to Save Jodie"
 * Homework:** Utilitarianism questions on handout - see Mr. Beekman if you have lost this.


 * Due: 04/08/11**

**Week 3**

 * Utilitarian Dilemmas mini-assignment**




 * Due: 16/08/11**

Week 4

 * Meta-Ethics: J.S. Mill 'Excerpts from //Utilitarianism'//**


 * Due: 12/08/11**


 * Week 4 Continued ...**

Complete the questions on the handout: [|god-and-morality.doc]
 * Reading: "Can we Have Morality Without God and Religion?"**


 * SAC Notification:**



Week 5: The Experience Machine
Journal entry and research assignment: **Due Fri. 26/08/11**



Professor Shelley Keagan on Immortality and the value of experience vs 'actually doing things'.

Week 6: Meta-Ethical Relativism
What is wrong for me is right for you? How can this be?



Interview with Tobias Schneebaum (@39 mins) -

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