Philosophy & Ethics

Marx's Theory of Alienation

Empirically-informed Responses to the Trolley Problem

Property, Freedom, and the Essential Job of Government

Freud on Sexuality and Civilization

Rousseau on State of Nature and Education

Origins of Classical Utilitarianism

Philosophical Puzzles: Trolley Problem, Heuristics, Ducking vs. Shielding, and Moral Luck

Durkheim and Social Facts

Lecture 25: Common Knowledge

Deontology

Faulkner, Light in August (continued)

Marx's Theory of Historical Materialism

Equality: Rawls' Theory of Justice

Virtue and Habit II

Equality II: Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia

Punishment II

Jonathan Haidt on Morality and Emotion

Tying Up Loose Ends

Marx's Theory of History

The Well-Ordered Soul: Happiness and Harmony

Hobbes: Authority, Human Rights and Social Order

Locke: Equality, Freedom, Property and the Right to Dissent

Marx's Theory of Historical Materialism (cont.)

The Prisoner's Dilemma