Updates, new assignments, quiz, etc.

1. Your paper or blog/webpage on arguments about homosexuality is now due next Monday, March 25, instead of this Friday. This was extended on Monday. And, please upload your project to Turnitin: if you do a blog, do your best to cut and paste the relevant sections into a document to upload.

2. Monday we discussed an article on gun control - 

The N.R.A.’s Blockade on Science - 

by philosopher Gary Gutting from the NY Times. We will look at some of the other articles in this series soon, especially 

Why Gun ‘Control’ Is Not Enough

By JEFF MCMAHAN

3. New writing (and some reading) assignment for next Wednesday, March 27: read or re-read EMP Ch 3 and 4 and write detailed summaries of them both. Also, read Mary Anne Warren's "The Moral and Legal Status of Abortion," in RTD and write a detailed summary of that. These should all be submitted to Turnitin and turned in in class. 

4. We will have our second quiz soon. It will be on  MONDAY, APRIL 8 - NOTE CHANGE and cover everything since the last quiz: mostly EMP 3 & 4, as well as all the related materials. A focus of this will be adding premises to make arguments logically valid and explaining whether arguments are sound or not. 

5. A handout for today: a page from philosopher Fred Feldman on abortion.