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Theoretical |
Practical |
| 1 |
Ethical Models for moral assesment I: Virtue Ethics (Aristoteles, Nikomakhos’a Etik) |
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| 2 |
Basic Approaches in Contemporary Virtue Ethics(Hursthouse, “Normative Virtue Ethics,” chapter 68, Slote, “Agent Based Virtue Ethics,” chapter 69, Pence, “Virtue Theory”) |
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| 3 |
Ethical Models for moral assesment II: Deontology (Kant, Ahlak Metafiziğinin Temellendirilmesi, bölüm, 55 |
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| 4 |
Basic Approaches in Contemporary Deontology (Davis, “Contemporary Deontology”, 205-219) |
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| 5 |
Ethical Models for moral assesment III: Consequentialism(Mill, Faydacılık) |
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Basic Approaches in Contemporary Consequentialism(pettit, “Consequentialism”, 230-241, Goodin, “Utility and the Good”, 241-249, Krister Bykvist – “Utilitarianism in the 20th Century” ) |
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Comparison of Ethical Models Across Contemporary Debates |
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| 8 |
Ethics and Moral Psychology(Thomas, “Morality and Psychological development”, 464-476, “Moral Psychology: Empirical Approaches (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-psych-emp/) Experimental Moral Philosophy (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/experimental-moral/) Aynı zamanda, https://www.ted.com/talks/jonathan_haidt_the_moral_roots_of_liberals_and_conservatives;https://www.edge.org/event/the-new-science-of-morality |
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| 9 |
Euthanasia(Kuhse, Euthanasia,294-303, Degrazia, et al. Biomedical Ethics. Rachels, Active and Passive Euthanasia, pp. 395-399. 3. Degrazia, et al. Biomedical Ethics. Callahan, Killing and Letting Die, pp. 399- 402. 4. Degrazia, et al. Biomedical Ethics. Brock, Voluntary Active Euthanasia, pp. 399- 404. 5. Degrazia, et al. Biomedical Ethics. Quill, Cassel, and Meier, Care of the Hopelessly Ill: Proposed Clinical Criteria for Physician-Assisted Suicide, pp. 418-421. 6. Degrazia, et al. Biomedical Ethics. The Oregon Death with Dignity Act, pp. 421- 426, Peter Singer, Rethinking Life and Death 2nd Edition, St. Martin's Griffin, 1996. ) |
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| 10 |
Abortion (Foot, “The Problem of Abortion and the Doctrine of the Double Effect,” chapter 60. Thomson, “Killing, Letting Die, and the Trolley Problem,” chapter 61 Tuesday, September 21, Abortion and the sanctity of life. Thomson, “A Defense of Abortion,” Blackboard Course Materials for this course. Tooley, “Abortion and Infanticide,” chapter 46 Marquis, “An Argument that Abortion is Wrong,” chapter 47) |
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| 11 |
Animals and Ethical-Political Responsibility (Kant, “We Have No Duties to Animals,” chapter 42 Singer, “All Animals Are Equal,” chapter 43 Feinberg, “The Rights of Animals and Unborn Generations,” chapter 44, https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/heavypetting; book: PRIMATES AND PHILOSOPHERS: How Morality Evolved, By Frans de Waal, Robert Wright, Christine M. Korsgaard, Philip Kitcher, Peter Singer (part I, pages 3-58 [Frans de Waal, Morally Evolved; part II, pages 99-119 [Christine Korsgaard, Morality and the Distinctiveness of Human Action]); addititonal materials: https://www.ted.com/talks/frans_de_waal_moral_behavior_in_animals; https://www.ted.com/talks/frans_de_waal_the_surprising_science_of_alpha_males |
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| 12 |
Feminism, Gender and Discrimination(Belliotti, “Sex”, 315-327, Boxill, “Equility, Discrimination and Preferential Treatment”, 333-343, “The Idea of a Female Ethic”, 491-500) |
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| 13 |
Business Ethics and Morality of Economics(Solomon, Business Ethics, 354-366; (Economic Analysis, Moral Philosophy, and Public Policy, 3rd edititon (chapters: 15, 16, Appendix)) |
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| 14 |
Environmental Ethics: Anthropocene and Trans- and post-humanism(Elliot, Environmental Ethics, 284-294; Zoltán Boldizsár Simon, The Epochal Event: Transformations in the Entangled Human, Technological, and Natural Worlds (chapters: 1-4, 7) |
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Textbooks, References and/or Other Materials: |
David DeGrazia, Thomas Mappes, Jeffrey Ballard, Biomedical Ethics 7th Edition , McGraw-Hill Education, 2010.
Rosalind Hursthouse, “Normative Virtue Ethics”, Ethical Theory: An Anthology, Second Edition. Edited by Russ Shafer-Landau, John W iley & Sons, Inc. Published 2013
MICHAEL SLOTE, “Agent-Based Virtue Ethics”, Midwest Studies in Philosophy, 1995.
Peter Singer, A Companion to Ethics, Wiley-Blackwell; 1st edition (August 20, 1993)
Foot, Philippa. The Problem of Abortion and the Doctrine of the Double Effect. 1967, Oxford Review 5:5-15.
Judith Jarvis Thomson, KILLING, LETTING DIE, AND THE TROLLEY PROBLEM, The Monist Vol. 59, No. 2, Philosophical Problems of Death (APRIL, 1976), pp. 204-217
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