Quiz Corrections Assignment

New assignment, due Monday, Oct. 6; due by class time via Turnitin.

Please find all the correct answers to the first quiz questions. Please submit a writing that
1. States your quiz grade.
2. States what questions you lost points on.
3. State the correct and complete answers to those questions.
4. States where those answers were found: what book? What handout? What set of notes? What page?
5. You explain what, if anything, you need to do so that you do better on the next quiz. The more ideas the better!

Make sure you use the template for writing assignments:
http://morehousemodernphilosophy.blogspot.com/2014/09/assignment-template.html

This week and next

THIS WEEK: reading and writing:

This week, Wednesday and Friday we will discuss EMP Ch. 2, and an article from the Harvard Law Review, "What's Culture Got to do with it? Excising the Harmful Tradition of Female Circumcision." Please carefully read them both.  

About EMP Ch. 2, be prepared to answer these questions:
1. What exactly is the moral theory called "cultural relativism"?
2. What is the argument from the chapter from the conclusion that the moral theory called 'cultural relativism' is true?
3. What are the arguments from the chapter for the conclusion that the moral theory called 'cultural relativism' is false? 
4. Given 1, 2 and 3, do you think that the moral theory called 'cultural relativism' is true or false?

About FGM, be prepared to answer these questions:
1. What is FGM?
2. What arguments (from the article and Rachels) are given for the conclusion that FGM is morally permissible?
3. What arguments (from the article and Rachels) are given for the conclusion that FGM is morally wrong?
4. Given your understanding of what it is, and the arguments for and against it, do you think it is MP or wrong? Why?

Next week: watching, reading and writing:
NOW DUE WEDNESDAY.. INSTEAD OF MONDAY. DUE WEDNESDAY OCT. 1. 

1. Watch two online videos and write and submit detailed summaries of each; submit these to Turnitin.com 

John Corvino - What's Morally Wrong with Homosexuality? (Full DVD Video) 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iXA_0MED98 

2. Nathan Nobis
Moral Arguments: Syllogisms  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xw8DJQRYWXg 

3. Detailed summary of HBR Guide to Better Business Writing, pp. 0-87. Submit this via Turnitin also. 

Updates

Dear Ethicists,

A number of messages.

1. Friday we will not have class because there is an event on sustainability that you should attend. You should try to attend sessions that look interesting to you. I'll pass along details as soon as I get them. Info is here:
http://philosophy302.blogspot.com/2014/09/friday-we-wont-have-class-due-to-this.html

2. I posted grades on EMP Ch. 1 through Turnitin. Either people did excellently and provided a detailed outline or summary of the full chapter, or they didn't provide a detailed summary of the whole chapter.

A comment I often made was that if you use the word 'argument' you must ALWAYS state the conclusion and the premises.

Also, outlines should have 'levels' to them, where the details under a point are indented. That provides structure.

3. Since we won't get to it today, the quiz Monday won't include EMP Ch. 2. So only everything in class up until  Wednesday. 

4. You have a writing assignment still due Friday. Make sure you use the template for it:
http://morehousemodernphilosophy.blogspot.com/2014/09/assignment-template.html

Thanks!

Georgia Campus Sustainability Network Annual Conference

Friday, we won't have class due to this event, which you should please attend. I will pass on the detailed schedule when I get it. Note: they won't provide lunch for you if you haven't registered.  

Friday, September 19

9:00am

 Georgia Campus Sustainability Network Annual Conference

WhenFri, September 19, 9am – 4pm

WhereShirley A. Massey Executive Conference Center (map)

DescriptionMorehouse College Institute for Sustainable Energy (ISE) will host the 2014 Annual Georgia Campus Sustainability Network (GCSN) conference sponsored by the National Wildlife Federation on September 19, 2014. ISE will pay registration fees for all Morehouse College students, faculty and staff.

Georgia Campus Sustainability Network Annual Conference here at Morehouse College on Friday, September 19, 2014.  

TIME: 9:00am-4:00pm
WHERE: Shirley A. Massey Executive Conference Center
WHO: Faculty, staff and students from colleges and universities throughout Georgia

Tentative Schedule
9:00am – 9:30am - Registration/Check-in (posters will be set up for presenting and networking)
9:35am – 9:40am - Welcome: Morehouse College Administrator
9:45am – 10:15am - Keynote: V. Anne Heard, Acting Deputy Regional Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency, Region 4
10:15am-10:30am - Break
10:30am-11:40am - Breakout Sessions
11:45am-11:55am - Break
11:55pm-1:00pm - Lunch, Networking, Poster Exhibition Walks
1:10pm-3:30pm - Breakout Sessions
3:40pm-3:40pm - Closing:  Eriqah Foreman-Williams, National Wildlife Federation

More info:
http://online.nwf.org/site/Calendar?id=107981&view=Detail 

Assignment Template

To ensure that your assignments have what's needed on them (your name, class name, class time, your email address, assignment, paper title, correct 1" margins, double space, etc.) please use these files as templates:

http://philosophy302.blogspot.com/2013/08/assignment-template.html

Use these exact files: download them and work from them.

Next two weeks

LAST WEEK:
This week, Wednesday and Friday, and perhaps a bit of Monday, we will discuss EMP Ch. 1.

THIS WEEK, Sept. 15-19:
Next week, we will discuss EMP Ch. 2, and an article from the Harvard Law Review, "What's Culture Got to do with it? Excising the Harmful Tradition of Female Circumcision." Please carefully read them both.  About EMP Ch. 2, be prepared to answer these questions:
1. What exactly is the moral theory called "cultural relativism"?
2. What is the argument from the chapter from the conclusion that the moral theory called 'cultural relativism' is true?
3. What are the arguments from the chapter for the conclusion that the moral theory called 'cultural relativism' is false?
4. Given 1, 2 and 3, do you think that the moral theory called 'cultural relativism' is true or false?

WRITING ASSIGNMENT:
By Friday, Sept. 19, please review your first paper in light of these questions and concerns:
http://philosophy302.blogspot.com/p/essay-evaluation-questions.html
Write up your responses and submit via Turnitin.

QUIZ 1, MONDAY SEPT 22:
Covering RTD 1 and 2, EMP 1 and 2 and all handouts and class discussion.

WRITING ASSIGNMENT:
Due by classtime: a detailed study guide, covering all concepts, theories, arguments and issues from class. Study groups are encouraged. Submit this via Turnitin.

Reminder, for NOW WEDNESDAY AND FRIDAY

NOTE DATE CHANGE:

A reminder:

Reading: For WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 10, Ch. 1, "What is Morality?" (Elements of Moral Philosophy, EMP):

Writing assignment 1: very detailed summary OR OUTLINE of this chapter, covering every section.  Due MONDAY, SEPT. 8, via Turnitin, by classtime. 

How detailed? Suppose there was going to be a big, important exam on this chapter, covering potentially every case, argument, response, theory, claim, definition and so on. You can, however, use your outline or summary. Given that, how much detail would you want? Have that much detail!