Język obcy dla filozofów - j. angielski (lato) [2402-F-S2-1L-JOJA] Semestr letni 2022/23
Laboratorium, grupa nr 1

Free Will section:

1. A Brief Introduction into Some Terms and Concepts. In: John Martin Fischer, Robert Kane, Derk Pereboom and Manuel Vargas “Four Views on Free Will”. 2007. Blackwell Publishing.

2. Taylor, Richard. “Fate”. In: “Freedom, Fatalism, and Foreknowledge” ed. John Martin Fischer and Patrick Todd. 2015. Oxford University Press.

3. Goldman, Alvin. 1968. “Actions, Predictions and Books of Life,” American Philosophical Quarterly 5(3): 135–151.

4. Frankfurt, Harry. 1969. “Alternate Possibilities and Moral Responsibility,” The Journal of Philosophy 66(23): 829–839.

Action Theory vis-à-vis moral responsibility section

5. Frankfurt, Harry. 1971. “Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person,” The Journal of Philosophy 68(1): 5–20.

6. Bennett, Jonathan. 1966. “Whatever the Consequences,” Analysis 26(3): 83–102.

7. Foot, Philippa. 1972. “Morality as a System of Hypothetical Imperatives,” The Philosophical Review 81(3): 305–316.

8. Foot, Philippa. 1967. “The Problem of Abortion and the Doctrine of Double Effect,” Oxford Review 5: 5–15.

9. Frankfurt, Harry. 1994. “An Alleged Asymmetry Between Actions and Omissions,” Ethics 104(3): 620–623.

Miscellany – general philosophy section

10. Nagel, Thomas. 1969. “Sexual Perversion,” The Journal of Philosophy 66(1): 5–17.

11. Street, Sharon. 2006. “A Darwinian Dilemma for Realist Theories of Value,” Philosophical Studies 127:109 – 166.

12. Benatar, David. 1997. “Why It is Better Never to Come into Existence,” American Philosophical Quarterly 34(3): 345–355.

13. Benatar, David. 2000. “The Wrong of Wrongful Life,” American Philosophical Quarterly 37(2): 175–183.

14. Smilansky, Saul. 2007. “Blackmail: the Solution”. In: 10 Moral Paradoxes. Blackwell Publishing.

15. Smilansky, Saul. 2007. “Determinism and Prepunishment: The Radical Nature of Compatibilism,” Analysis 67(4): 347–349.

16. Bernard Williams and Thomas Nagel. 1976. “Moral Luck,” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volumes 50: 115 – 151.

17. Olson, Eric. 2013. “The Epicurean View of Death,” The Journal of Ethics 17(1-2): 65–78.

1. The metaphysics of free will

2. Action theory and moral responsibility

3. Some general philosophical problems

1. Acquanting students with philosophical terminology through reading selected philosophical papers

2. Acquiring terminology (will-nilly) through discussing some substantive issues emerging from the studied texts.

At the very minimum, to pass the course, students are required to read the essays indicated below and show at least some activity, while discussing them. Conversely, if students do not bother to read the papers and neither do they participate in the class, this naturally constitutes a fail. Certainly, varying engagement on the part of student will exert a differential impact on the student’s final grade. That is to say, the more active a student is, the higher grade he or she is bound to receive. Specifically, a moderately active student receives “3”, a student demonstrating more-than-average engagement in discussions receives “4”, while students demonstrating particularly sharp analytic skills during discussions are bound to receive “5”.