Tentative Class Reading and Assignment ScheduleDay Date Topic Assignment Due Today1M, 1/13 Introduction to Phil2112W, 1/15 Answering Moral Questions and Introduction to DebatingLast Day to Drop/AddCP: What are Moral Questions and How Can TheyBe Answered?DG: 1-193F, 1/17 SECTIONS Introductory Speeches4M, 1/20 MLK Day -----------------------------------------------5W, 1/22 Introduction to DebatingDG: 20-446F, 1/24 SECTIONS Demonstration DebateAssign Cards from Newspapers assignment7M, 1/27 Access to Healthcare: Current StatusCP: Care without Coverage Too Little Too Late; About the Law andMoving Forward toImplement the Health Insurance Exchanges; Vermont’s Move Toward Single-Payer Health Insurance; Massachusetts’s faces Costs of Big Health Care Plan’; Health Plan Cost for New Yorkers Set to Fall 50%; What Makes US Health Care Exchanges so Complicated?8W, 1/29 Access to Healthcare: EqualityCP: The idea of equality9F, 1/31 SECTIONS Speeches from ‘Cards from Newspapers’10M, 2/3 Access to Healthcare: EqualityCP: Equality, Envy, Exploitation,etc.; Health Care isNot a Right11W, 2/5 Access to Healthcare: Equality of OpportunityCP: Health-Care Needs and Distributive Justice12F, 2/7 SECTIONS Topic Warm-Up CardsLetter to the Editor Due13M, 2/10 Access to Healthcare: Prudential InsuranceCP: Justice and theHigh Cost of Health Care14W, 2/12 Introduction to Debating DG: 45-6615F, 2/14 SECTIONS Topic Warm-Up Cards16M, 2/17 Euthanasia/Physician-Assisted Suicide: The Nature of MedicineCP: Neither for Love nor Money17W, 2/19 Euthanasia/Physician-Assisted Suicide: Physician-Assisted Suicide, Withdrawing and Withholding CareCP: Death and Dignity A Case of Individualized Decision Making; EPAS: 17-4218F, 2/21 SECTIONS Group Case Construction19M, 2/24 Euthanasia/Physician-Assisted Suicide: Slippery SlopeEPAS: 43-6320W, 2/26 Euthanasia/Physician-Assisted Suicide: EuthanasiaEPAS: 107-12721F, 2/28 SECTIONSLast day to withdraw without WF - Semester MidpointGroup Case Construction22M, 3/3 Euthanasia/PAS: Public PolicyCP: FAQ About theDeath With Dignity Act; EPAS:64-8023W, 3/5 Introduction to Debating DG: 67-7824F, 3/7 Mid-Term Exam3/10-14 Spring Break 25M, 3/17 Introduction to DebatingDG: 79-9326W, 3/19 Introduction to DebatingDG: 94-10427F, 3/21 SECTIONS Four Step Refutation28M, 3/24 Same-Sex Marriage: Current StatusPaul Martin’s Speech on Same Sex Marriage; The Supreme Court Bolsters Gay Marriage with TwoMajor Rulings; The Future of Same Sex Marriage; SSM: 204-3829W, 3/26 Same-Sex Marriage: Religious ViewsSSM: 46-85Fresh Air interview(will be linked on Blackboard)30F, 3/28 SECTIONS Group Cross-Examination31M, 3/31 Same-Sex Marriage: Slippery SlopeSSM: 273-9432W, 4/2 Same-Sex Marriage: The LeftSSM: 121-4533F, 4/4 SECTIONS SPAR Debates34M, 4/7 Same-Sex Marriage: The RightSSM: 146-20335W, 4/9 Guest Speaker36F, 4/11 SECTIONS SPAR Debates37M, 4/14 Eating Animals: Arguments for VegetarianismEA: 3-41CP: Animal Liberation, Vegetarianism as Protest38W, 4/16 Eating Animals: Animal RightsEA: 81-121CP: A Critique of the Alleged Moral Basis of Vegetarianism39F, 4/18 SECTIONS SPAR Debates40M, 4/21 Eating Animals: Some Religious ViewsEA: 151-73CP: Christians are What Christians Eat; The Jewish Diet and Vegetarianism41W, 4/23 Eating Animals: Valuing PredationEA: 174-199CP: Bambi Lovers versus TreeHuggers42F, 4/25 SECTIONS SPAR Debates43M, 4/28 Last Day of ClassesEating Animals: Thanksgiving and Other Meals EA: 247-67 T, 4.29 Reading DayFinal Project Final ProjectPAGE PAGE