The following documents are available in conjunction with specific units of Values Analysis (PHIL/GLST 210):
Syllabus - Mr. Brown: course description, goals and outcomes; grading and other policies, course overview.
Evaluation Criteria: specific writing requirements used by all instructors in grading formal writing
Discussion Guide: Utilitarianism (and MetaEthics): reading/discussion questions for Mill's utilitarianism, followed by a first discussion of metaethics (including the positions of ethical relativism, cultural relativism, pluralism/rationalism, and dogmatism/absolutism)
Discussion Guide/Writing Assignment: Hobbes, Locke, Mill: summarizes the philosophical contrasts (i.e., in terms of ontology, epistemology, conceptions of the world, human nature, human freedom, and the state of nature) between Hobbes and Locke as a way of taking up Hobbesian ethical egoism and Mill's utilitarianism (both as forms of ethical consequentialism)
Three Approaches to Kant: an introductory overview of central concepts; a "genetic" or common-sense approach; and an advanced approached based on a larger understanding of Kant's philosophical system
Abortion essays summary, writing assignment: summarizes the essays by Judith Jarvis Thomson, Baruch Brody, and Mary Anne Warren, followed by a formal writing assignment
Logicians' Notebook: summarizes the fallacies of slippery slope, affirming the consequent, ad hominem, circularity/begging the question, and equivocation, as well as discussion of how to analyse analogical arguments
Assessment Questions: Sample questions and case study from final assessment exam (used to determine how well Values Analysis meets its stated goals and outcomes)