Units offer suggestions about how to devote a course unit to an area of deviant philosophy. Units provide recommended reading schedules, background information about the unit’s topics and readings, and suggestions regarding how the unit might fit into the course’s larger arc.
Unit: The Ethics of Sexual Preference
Introduction Sexual preferences represent a rich site for ethical exploration of topics such as oppression, responsibility, freedom. Because everyone has ...
Unit: Psychological Obstacles to Acting Ethically
Introduction Most undergraduate students want to be morally good people, and most ethics instructors want to help them be morally ...
Unit: The Cartesian Self and Buddhist Alternatives
Introduction Descartes provides a classic example of a individual, substantialist conception of the self, and Buddhists deny precisely such a ...
Unit: Care of the Dead
Introduction The early Chinese philosophers argued heatedly about how to care for the dead. In this unit, three of the ...
Unit: Wollstonecraft
Courses: Intro to Ethics; Social/Political (lower division) Assigned Texts: Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Abridged, with ...
Unit: Chinese Philosophy of Human Rights
Introduction This unit is a six-class arc introducing 20th- and 21st-century Chinese perspectives on human rights. Courses and Texts Courses ...
Unit: Lynching, the Milgram Experiments, and the Question of Whether “Human Nature Is Good”
Texts and Courses Primary Texts Allen, James, Hilton Als, John Lewis, and Leon F. Litwack (2000). Without sanctuary: Lynching photography ...
Unit: Theism and Atheism in Classical Indian Philosophy
Introduction The unit provides an overview of some of the debates between theists and atheists in classical India. Texts and ...
Unit: Social Epistemology
Introduction This unit provides an introduction to topics in social epistemology. Texts and Courses Courses Epistemology (upper level undergraduate) Assigned ...