Note : Session III will be on break during the first week of July
(July 1-8).  (See http://www.lemoyne.edu/registrar/acadcal-sum05.html)

Notes, handouts, syllabi

• Philosophy 302-31: Issues in Ethics, Summer 2005 Syllabus 
• [M. Kagan notes for Issues in Ethics last updated May 20, 1999] (Note: This document is approximately 20 pages long.)
• [M. Kagan addition to notes for Issues in Ethics (on Capital Punishment) last updated June 24, 1996
• [M. Kagan's notes on and reconstruction of Ayn Rand's Ethical Egoism, and links to other Rand/Objectivism material ]
• [Sample Midterm from Summer 1995]
• ["One Way to Write a Philosophy Paper"] (provides a brief outline of one of the standard ways to go about writing a philosophy paper)

Links to some internet resources

• Feminist Ethics:  Rosemarie Tong's article on Feminist Ethics from the on-line Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

    This excellent overview provides historical background, gives bibliographic and internet linking information, distinguishes and discusses different approaches.  It also includes a very useful presentation of issues related to feminist ethics of care (e.g., Carol Gilligan and Nel Noddings).
• Hatrack River - The Official Web Site of Orson Scott Card
• [Links to some classic texts on Civil Disobedience]
• Link to Boston Review Forum on Abortion (recent J.J. Thomson essay, criticisms, and reply)

Group Work

• [Group work on Orson Scott Card's "Unaccompanied Sonata"]
• [Group work on Orson Scott Card's "Gert Fram"]
• [Group work on Orson Scott Card's "Best Day"]
• [Group work on Orson Scott Card's "Middle Woman"]
• [Group work on Orson Scott Card's "The Porcelain Salamander"]
• [Group work on Orson Scott Card's "Prior Restraint" (and "Unaccompanied Sonata")]
• [Group work on Orson Scott Card's "Bicicleta")]
• [Group work on "A Thousand Deaths," "Sandmagic" and the Death Penalty")]