METHODOLOGY

Statements: Justification and Truth
Arguments: Validity and Soundness 
Definitions

WHAT IS PHILOSOPHY (suggested additional outline)

KNOWLEDGE AND SKEPTICISM

• Exercise #1
  

MAIN READINGS RELEVANT  TO THE  ISSUES OF "RESPECT FOR LIFE"

• Peter Singer, All Animals Are Equal
• Peter Singer, Equality for Animals (it's essentially the same argument as in AAAE, but it spells out some practical applications)
• Peter Singer, Do Animals Feel Pain?, Do Animals Feel Pain? (another link)
• Singer's work available on line
• Tom Regan, The Case for Animal Rights
• you can find more info here
• Thunder Heart Bison (Animals Raised with Respect)

FREEDOM OF WILL AND DETERMINISM

• Reading for "Libertarianism", Randolph Clarke, Incompatibilist (Nondeterministic) Theories of Free Will, in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (especially section 3)

Suggested additional readings: Discussions of various conceptions of the freedom of will

• Timothy O'Connor, Free Will, in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Randolph Clarke, Incompatibilist (Nondeterministic) Theories of Free Will, in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• THE DETERMINISM AND FREEDOM PHILOSOPHY WEBSITE , edited by Ted Honderich

EXERCISES / QUIZZES (USE FOR REVIEWS ETC.)

REVIEWS
Review for quiz #1

 

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