Overview
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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) | ||
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” |
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” |
Week 4 | Jan 25 | Don Marquis, “Why Abortion is Immoral" | Jan 31 | Alberto Giubilini, Francesca Minerva “After-Birth Abortion: Why Should the Baby Live?” |
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 |