PHIL 27 - Syllabus

PHIL 27: Ethics & Society UCSD Summer Session 1 2014
Professor Gerald Doppelt Center 115 MW 11:00-12:50 pm

TAs :
Erik Olson (eolson@ucsd.edu)
J.P. Messina (jamessina@ucsd.edu)
Danny Weltman (dweltman@ucsd.edu)
Required Texts: Copies of the Course Reader and Ehrenreichs book will be on reserve in Geisel library.
1) Cal Copy PHIL 27 Summer 2014 Reader (henceforth CC).
**Note: All papers require citations from the Cal Copy Summer 2014 Reader**
The course reader is available at Cal Copy (858-452-9949), 3251 Holiday Court 1!3 (by "o#i$o%s &i''a)(
2) The Hearts of Men by B. Ehrenreich, available at the University Bookstore.
Course Website: The course website can be found at TED (http://ted.ucsd.edu). There, you can find the course
syllabus, paper topics, exam study questions, the grading code, and TurnItIn.Com links.
Course Schedule (no extensions, late papers, or incompletes):
Week 1 First Paper Topic handed out in Monday lecture
Week 2 Midterm Study Guide handed out in Monday lecture
First Paper Topic due Wednesday before lecture
Week 3 Second Paper Topic handed out in Monday lecture
Midterm Exam to be held during Wednesday SECTION
Week 4 Second Paper Topic due Wednesday before lecture
Week 5 Course wrap-up, no final exam
Course Outline:
Week 1 The Ethics of Abortion
1) Abortion, Bass (CC)
2) A Defense of Abortion, Thomson (CC)
First Paper Topic: Handed out in Monday lecture
3) How to Argue about Abortion, Noonan (CC)
4) Should a Fetus Have Rights?: How Science is Changing the Debate, Newsweek
(CC)
5) Matters of Life and Death, Glover (CC)
6) Abortion & the Politics of Motherhood, Luker, Chp. 7 (CC)
Week 2 The Ethics of Gender Stereotypes (Part 1)
1) The Hearts of Men, p. 1-182 (Ehrenreich)
2) She Works, He Doesnt, Newsweek (CC)
Midterm Study Guide: Handed out in Monday lecture
First Paper Topic: Due Wednesday before lecture
3) On Psychological Oppression, Bartky (CC)
4) Misdiagnosing the Mind, Tavris (CC)
5) Killing Us Softly Volume 3 (UCSD Film Reserves)
Week 3 The Ethics of Gender Stereotypes (Part 2)
Monday:
1) Career Obstacles in Medicine, Reed (CC)
2) The Rape of Petty Officer Blumer: Inside the militarys culture of sex abuse, denial
and cover up, Erdeley (CC)
3) Sexual Assault in Military Jaw-dropping, CNN (CC)
4) A Womans Place, Auletta (CC)
5) Altruism and Womens Oppression, Blum (CC)
Second Paper Topic: Handed out in Monday lecture
The Ethics of Reverse Discrimination (Part 1)
Wednesday:
Midterm Exam: Wednesday IN SECTION
6) The Justification of Reverse Discrimination in Hiring, Beauchamp (CC)
7) U.S. Supreme Court, University of California vs. Bakke, (CC)
8) Reverse Discrimination and Compensatory Justice, Blackstone (CC)
9) Reverse Discrimination: A Brief Against It, Van den Haag (CC)
Week 4 The Ethics of Reverse Discrimination (Part 2)
Monday:
1) What People Deserve, Rachels (CC)
2) Reversing the Arguments Against Reverse Discrimination, Humber (CC)
Ethics in Business and Bureaucratic Organizations
Wednesday:
Second Paper Topic: Due Wednesday before lecture
3) Morality and the Ideal of Rationality in Formal Organizations, Ladd (CC)
4) Ladd on Morality and Formal Organizations, Long and Snoeyenbos (CC)
Week 5 Ethics in Professions
1) Case: Organizational Decision-Making at Aero Products, (CC)
2) Case: Cost-Benefit Analysis and the Ford Pinto, (CC)
3) On Being a Professional, Morally Speaking, Camenish (CC)
4) Calling or Career: The Tensions of Modern Professional Life, Sullivan (CC)
Course Requirements: Grades will be based on the following:
First paper...35%
Midterm exam.....20%
Second Paper...35%
Attendance in lectures/sections, quiz grades, participation.....10%
**Note: 10% of your grade is allocated as follows: You lose two points for every lecture or section in which you are
absent. Otherwise, the number of points you get out of this 10% will depend on your performance on quizzes in
section and lecture, and participation in section.
Grading Procedure:
Your papers/exams should have comments by your TA at the end of the paper indicating its strengths and
weaknesses. Please read these comments carefully, as well as the other comments dispersed throughout your paper,
in order to understand the overall evaluation and grade given to your paper/exam. If you desire a better
understanding of the evaluation of your work, follow the instructions below:
1) Please carefully re-read the questions asked in all parts of your paper or exam topics. Thoroughly check to
determine if your paper/exam clearly answers each question and part of the topic. One reason for a lower
grade on paper/exams is that the student has not provided a clear answer for each answer and part of the
topics of the paper/exam.
2) After you have carefully re-read the comments of your TA, if you do not understand them, make an
appointment with your TA to discuss the comments or evaluation. Do your best to appreciate the standards
we are using to make the most of your abilities.
3) All in all, students work improves when they seek to understand the strengths and weaknesses of their
work. On the other hand, trying to renegotiate a grade is usually counterproductive and fruitless.
Final Grade:
Students must complete the papers and all exams to pass the course. In addition to submitting the papers in
hard-copy form, it must also be submitted to TurnItIn through the course TED (http://ted.ucsd.edu). To
turn in your papers, click on the TurnItIn icon for the appropriate assignment, and follow the instructions
given. UCSD has a university-wide Policy on Integrity of Scholarship, published annually in the Catalog
(pp. 62-64 for 2002-3), online at http://registrar.ucsd.edu/records/grdbk3.html. All students must read and
be familiar with this Policy. Receipt of this syllabus constitutes an acknowledgment that you are
responsible for understanding and acting in accordance with UCSD guidelines on academic integrity.
Lectures Office Hours: Doppelt by appointment (jdoppelt@ucsd.edu)

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