Doing Philosophy: An Introduction Through Thought Experiments, 2/e

Theodore Schick, Muhlenberg College
Lewis Vaughn

The Problem of Relativism and Morality

Character is Destiny: Virtue Makes Right

Thought Probes

Empathy and Agency: Can someone without a conscience--without the ability to empathize with others--act morally?
The Biology and Psychology of Moral Agency (http://human-nature.com/nibbs/02/agency.html) Review by Neil Levy (University of Melbourne)



Managers as Androids: Reading Moral Agency in Philip Dick (http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journals/details/issue/sample/a010264.pdf) Article by Nidhi Srinivas discussing the relation between empathy and moral agency in the writings of Philip K. Dick



Elements of Moral Maturity (http://www.sba.oakland.edu/faculty/mathieson/research/moral_maturity/elements_of_moral_ma... ) Article by Kieran Mathieson (Oakland University) identifying the conditions for moral agency



Moral Status: A Multi-Criterial Analysis (http://mailer.fsu.edu/~cpynes/courses/eilc/mawmoralstatus.pdf) Article by Mary Anne Warren (San Francisco State University) comparing various theories of moral status



Empathy and Evaluative Inquiry (http://lawreview.kentlaw.edu/Articles/74.4/D'Armsaftermacro.pdf) Article by Justin D'Arms (Ohio State University) exploring the role empathy plays in moral evaluations

The Ring of Gyges: Would the behavior of a virtuous person with the power of invisibility be no different from that of an outlaw?
The Ring of Gyges (http://truth.wofford.edu/~kaycd/ethics/gyges.htm) Excerpt from Plato's Republic



Justice as a Virtue (http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/justice-virtue/) Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy article



In Possession of Gyges' Ring, Why Should One Obey? (http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~fast/gyges.html) Discussion by Calum Neill and Simon Wigley (Bilkent University)



The Ring of Gyges (http://www.plato-dialogues.org/tetra_4/republic/gyges.htm) Discussion of the relation of this story to Plato's Allegory of the Cave by Bernard Suzanne (Plato and his Dialogues)



The Ring of Gyges (http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/ap85/051/lec3.html) Lecture notes by Alexander R. Pruss (Georgetown University)

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