BHEPC

Blue Hens Ethics and Philosophy Club Readings (Ongoing list from Spring 2022 - Current)

• Separated Triplets Had Been Studied Since Birth

• My Forward To God and Horrendous Suffering

• Kids? Just Say No. 

• Why We Should Allow Performance Enhancing Drugs In Sport

• The Non-Identity Problem (second reading)

• Some Thoughts on Body Modification, Ethics, and Self

• Capital Punishment: Our Duty or Our Doom?

• The Social Impact of The Meat Industry

• What Is It To Love Someone?

• The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas

• Robert Nozick's Metaverse Machine

• Mary The Scientist

• Non-Cognitivism

• Killing And Letting Die by James Rachels

• Compatibilism About Free Will

• My Friend Is Cheating On Her Partner. What Should I Do?

• Is There A Such Thing As Good Taste?

• The Ethics of Humor

• The Limits of Consent In Sexual Ethics

• Forget Morality

• Free Speech Has Failed Us

• The Badness of Death

• Theories of Punishment

• Ancient Cynicism 

• Why Philosophy Is So Important In Science Education

• Licensing Parents

• Is Immortality Desirable?

• Fuck Work

• Do Mystical Experiences Justify Religious Beliefs?

• The Swampman Philosophy

• The Ethical Equivalence of Cisgender and Transgender Identities

• Descartes Was Wrong

• What's The Deal With "Whole Body Gestational Donation"? On Defending Bioethics

• Against Longtermism 

• Collective Wrongs

• The Maze of Free Will

•  A Defense of Abortion - Judith Jarvis Thomson (pdf version)

• Should Animals Have The Right To Vote?

• Philosophy as a Way of Life

• Happiness and Meaning: Two Aspects of the Good Life (excerpts) - Susan Wolf

• Escape the Echo Chamber

• Aristotle on Friendship

• Praise and Blame

• Free Will and Free Choice

• The Concept of God

• Rousseau on Human Nature

• No, Really. I Need A Hug: BDSM and its Role in Harm Reduction in Sexual Encounters (this was after I left club leadership... I wasn't assigning my own papers!)

• Disability, Medicine, and Ethics

• The Possibility of Artificial Minds

• What Is It To Love Someone?

• Trolley Problem

• The Ethics of Patient Autonomy

• Philosophy of Law: An Overview