Studying Moral Philosophy

JONATHAN WOLFF

Morality and Objectivity

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MARY MIDGLEY 

Trying Out One’s New Sword             

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J. L. MACKIE 

Inventing Right and Wrong     

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HARRY G. FRANKFURT 

Alternate Possibilities and Moral Responsibility        

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Natural Law 

ST. THOMAS AQUINAS 

The Natural Law          

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The Social Contract 

PLATO 

What Is the Value of Justice?  

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THOMAS HOBBES 

The State of Nature     

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JOHN RAWLS 

The Original Position  

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Utilitarianism 

JEREMY BENTHAM 

An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation  

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JOHN STUART MILL 

Utilitarianism   

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Deontology 

IMMANUEL KANT 

The Categorical Imperative     

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The Ethics of Care 

ANNETTE BAIER 

The Need for More than Justice          

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Virtue Ethics 

ARISTOTLE 

Nicomachean Ethics    

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Ancient Chinese Ethics 

CONFUCIUS 

Analects           

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Gender Equality

MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT 

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman          

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SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR 

The Second Sex           

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AUDRE LORDE 

Age, Race, Class, and Sex       

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LORI GIRSHICK 

Gender Policing           

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Free Speech and Its Limits

JOHN STUART MILL 

On Liberty of Expression        

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CATHARINE MACKINNON 

Pornography, Civil Rights, and Speech          

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GREG LUKIANOFF AND JONATHAN HAIDT 

The Coddling of the American Mind  

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Sexual Morality

NICHOLAS DIXON 

Alcohol and Rape        

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AMIA SRINIVASAN  

The Right to Sex  

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MIRANDA PILIPCHUK  

Good Survivor, Bad Survivor: #MeToo and the Moralization of Survivorship 

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Abortion

JUDITH JARVIS THOMSON 

A Defense of Abortion            

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MARY ANNE WARREN 

On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion    

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DON MARQUIS 

Why Abortion Is Immoral       

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ROSALIND HURSTHOUSE 

Virtue Theory and Abortion    

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Euthanasia

DAN BROCK 

Voluntary Active Euthanasia 

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WILLIAM ROBERT NIELSEN  

MAiD in Canada: Ethical Considerations in Medical Assistance in Dying  

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Punishment

JOHN STUART MILL 

Speech in Defense of Capital Punishment      

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ANGELA DAVIS  

Are Prisons Obsolete? 

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TOMMIE SHELBY  

Prisons Abolition or Reform? 

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Animal Ethics

PETER SINGER 

All Animals Are Equal            

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ROGER SCRUTON 

Animal Rights and Wrongs     

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JOSEPHINE DONOVAN  

Attention to Suffering: A Feminist Caring Ethic for the Treatment of Animals   

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The Environment

ALDO LEOPOLD 

The Land Ethic 

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DARREL MOELLENDORF 

Justice and Climate Change    

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SHEILA WATT-CLOUTIER  

The Right to be Cold  

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War, Terror and Torture

JOHN RAWLS 

50 Years After Hiroshima       

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TERROR AND TORTURE  

ALAN DERSHOWITZ 

Should the Ticking Bomb Terrorist Be Tortured?      

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MICHAEL WALZER 

Terrorism: A Critique of Excuses       

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Resistance

MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. 

Letter From Birmingham Jail  

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NELSON MANDELA 

I Am Prepared to Die   

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Racial Justice and Inclusion

W. E. B. DU BOIS 

The Souls of Black Folk          

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JENNIFER MORTON  

Flourishing in the Academy: Complicity and Compromise 

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Affirmative Action

ELIZABETH ANDERSON 

Racial Integration Remains an Imperative

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SHELBY STEELE 

Affirmative Action: The Price of Preference  

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KETANJI BROWN JACKSON 

Dissenting Judgment in Students for Fair Admissions  

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Economic Justice

JOHN RAWLS 

A Theory of Justice     

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ROBERT NOZICK 

The Entitlement Theory of Justice      

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IRIS MARION YOUNG 

Political Responsibility and Structural Injustice         

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World Hunger and Foreign Aid

PETER SINGER 

Famine, Affluence, and Morality        

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DAMBISA MOYO 

Dead Aid          

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ONORA O’NEILL 

Ending World Hunger  

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Health Justice

DAN BROCK  

Cost-Effectiveness Analysis  

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CLARENCE H. BRADDOCK III   

Racism and Bioethics: The Myth of Color-Blindness 

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MICHAEL MARMOT  

The Health Gap: The Challenge of an Unequal World 

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JONATHAN WOLFF  

Three Waves of Pandemic Ethics 

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Ethics of Digital Technologies

IASON GABRIEL and VAFA GHAZAVI  

The Challenge of Value Alignment: From Fairer Algorithms to AI Safety? 

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CARISSA VELIZ 

The Surveillance Delusion 

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The Meaning of Life

JEAN-PAUL SARTRE  

Existentialism and Humanism 

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ROBERT NOZICK  

The Experience Machine  

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SUSAN WOLF  

Happiness and Meaning 

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