TUESDAYS

FRIDAYS

JAN 25

Syllabus

JAN 29

David Foster Wallace: Consider the Lobster

FEB 1

Michael Sandel: The Greatest Happiness Principle/ Utilitarianism

FEB 5

Elizabeth Harman: The Moral Significance of Animal Pain and Death

FEB 8

Christine Korsgaard: Getting Animals in View

FEB 12

No Class (Lincoln's Birthday)

FEB 15

Matthew Yglesias: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is floating a 70 percent top tax rate — here’s the research that backs her up

Ryan Bourne: No, Economists Don't Agree a 70 Percent Top Marginal Tax Rate Is a Good Idea

FEB 19

Michael Sandel: Do We Own Ourselves?/ Libertarianism

FEB 22

Michael Sandel: Markets and Morals

FEB 26

CLASS CANCELLED
(Note: if you did not get the email about this on the morning of Tuesday, February 26th, you should change your email address in CUNYfirst to one that you regularly check.)

MAR 1

Matthew Yglesias: Everything you need to know about income inequality

Alvin Chang: America's wealth gap is split along racial lines — and it's getting dangerously wider

Elizabeth Kolbert: The Psychology of Inequality

MAR 5

Michael Sandel: The Case for Equality- John Rawls

Take-Home Midterm Assignment

MAR 8

Martha Nussbaum: Political Equality

MAR 12

Harry Frankfurt: Equality as a Moral Ideal

MAR 15

Michael Sandel: What Matters is the Motive / Immanuel Kant

MAR 19

Larissa MacFarquhar: The Comforting Fictions of Dementia Care

MAR 22

Sarah Kliff: The Truth about the Gender Wage Gap

Rachel Greszler: “Pay Gap” Myth Ignores Women’s Intentional Job Choices

Take-Home Midterm Due

Mar 26

Martha Nussbaum: Adaptive Preferences and Women's Options

Mar 29

Marilynn Frye: Sexism

APR 2

Rivka Weinberg: Is Procreation (Almost) Always Right?

APR 5

NO CLASS ON THIS DAY

APR 9

David Benetar: Kids? Just Say No

APR 12

Emily Ryo and Ian Peacock: The Landscape of Immigration Detention in the United States

Alex Nowrasteh: The 14 Most Common Arguments against Immigration and Why They’re Wrong

Tyler Cowan: Immigration Policy is Hard

APR 16

Joseph Carens: Aliens and Citizens: The Case for Open Borders

APR 19

No Class (Spring Break)

APR 23

No Class (Spring Break)

APR 26

No Class (Spring Break)

APR 30

Jeff McMahan: Rethinking Just War, Part 1 and Part 2

MAY 3

Rajan Menon: Why Humanitarian Intervention goes Horribly Wrong

MAY 7

John Arras: The Right to Health Care

MAY 10

James Rachels: Active and Passive Euthanasia

Christopher de Bellaigue: Death on Demand: Has Euthanasia Gone too Far?

MAY 14

Extended Office Hours to discuss drafts. Appointments available 10:00am–5:00pm. Send me a draft of your term paper by Sunday, May 12th if you'd like to meet and get feedback.

MAY 21

Final Exam, 9–11am

MAY 22

Term Paper Due by Email