Applied Ethics Tutorial 1

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Applied EthicsTutorial 1

• Tutorial Website
• http//phil.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/wmkwok/SpaceCC-Ethic
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Topics

• Group Presentation
• Individual or Group Paper

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Group Presentation

• Weighting (20)
• Presentation performance - how well you verbally
  perform and how well you handle the floor.
• Quality of presentation contents, including
  submitted presentation materials such as
  PowerPoint files.
• Every member gets the same mark.

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• Task
• 20-min presentation of the readings assigned by
  the lecturer on some applied ethics topics.
• 5-min Q A session.
• Presentation contents
• The topics and the readings (cf. course outline)
• Abortion
• Judith Thomson, A Defense of Abortion
• May Anne Warren, On the Moral and Legal Status
  of Abortion

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• Racism, sexism affirmative action
• Tom L. Beauchamp, The Justification of Reverse
  Discrimination
• Lisa Newton, Reverse Discrimination as
  Unjustified
• Cloning
• Leon Kass, The Wisdom of Repugnance
• Kitcher Philip, There Will Never Be Another You
• Animal rights
• Peter Singer, All Animals Are Equal
• Tom Regan, The Radical Egalitarian Case for
  Animal Rights
• Computer ethics
• R. A. Spinello, Free Speech in Cyberspace.
• Bernard Gert, Is it Moral to Make Copies of
  Software for My Friends

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• These 7 readings can be copied from the
  textbooks in the Library (8th edition, not 9th).
• This reading can be downloaded from our
  tutorial website later, probably next week.
• These 2 readings can be copied from the 9th
  edition of the textbook or downloaded from our
  tutorial website.

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• Each group is responsible for presenting the main
  ideas of one of the two readings of one topic,
  including your responses to those ideas, no
  matter appreciations or criticisms.
• Because of time limit, you may focus on some
  ideas you find centrally important, while
  ignoring other less important ones.
• Grouping schedule for presentation
• There are 5 groups altogether, each is
  responsible for one topic.
• No. of students of each group depends on the
  total no. of students in this class.

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• Choose a group leader / coordinator.
• Choose a group name.
• Draw for presentation date and topic

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• Choose a reading of the topic and tell me your
  choice as soon as possible.

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• Remarks
• Presentation language English
• Tips / suggestions
• Take the Questions for Analysis after each
  reading as reference.
• Digest the presentation materials so that you
  dont need to read them too much.
• If you use PowerPoint, try not to include too
  many words but just key points that guide your
  presentation. Also, use other resources like
  figures or photos that facilitate your
  presentation.
• You may prepare copies of your presentation
  materials for the audience.
• Planning and practice improve things.

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Individual or Group Paper

• Weighting (30)
• Task
• Following on the presentation topic, the students
  involved are required to choose, individually or
  in group, a Case Presentation of that topic from
  the textbook.
• For students who choose a Case Presentation
  individually, he/she needs to write an essay in
  English (800 to 1000 words) by himself/herself.

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• You may use those Case Presentations from the
  textbooks in the Library (8th but not 9th
  edition), except for the topic Computer Ethics.
  For this topic, the Case Presentations can be
  obtained from the 9th edition of the textbook or
  downloaded from our tutorial website.

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• For those who choose in group, they may write
  this essay together (and will get the same mark).
• Note that these groups may be subgroups of the
  original presentation group, but not the whole
  original group.
• There are Questions for Analysis after each
  Case Presentation. You should write the essay by
  responding to some of these questions.
• A more in-depth analysis rather than a
  superficial one is preferred, so that you
  should try to focus on as few questions as
  possible.

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• Marking criteria
• Depth of analysis
• Clarity of expression
• Correct application of argumentative skills
• Quality of content, e.g. significance of points
• Originality of ideas.
• Deadline of submission
• Hardcopy to be submitted in the last tutorial.
• No late submission is allowed.
• Further guidelines may be provided in subsequent
  tutorials.