DOUGLAS W. PORTMORE
|
Associate Professor (Effective August 2008) |
Faculty Fellow (2008-09) Center for Ethics and Public
Affairs |
· Blog: PEA Soup
· Upcoming Conferences
that I’ll Be Attending
o Bellingham Summer
Philosophy Conference – August 3-7, 2008
o Rocky Mountain
Ethics (RoME) Congress – August 8-10, 2008
o International
Society for Utilitarian Studies Conference – September 11-14, 2008
· Instructional
Resources
o Tips on Writing a Philosophy Paper
o Interactive
Quiz on Hedonistic Act-Utilitarianism
o Grading
Rubric for Philosophy Papers
· Syllabi and Some
Sample Lecture Notes
o PHI 420/591: Seminar on
Consequentialism – Spring 2008
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Utilitarianism
and Consequentialism: The Basics
§
Act
Consequentialism’s Compelling Idea and Deontology’s Paradoxical
Idea
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Traditional Act
Consequentialism and the Too Demanding Objection
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Consequentializing Moral
Theories
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Consequentialism and the
Self-Other Asymmetry
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Satisficing and Scalar
Consequentialism
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World Utilitarianism and Actualism vs.
Possibilism
§
Objective vs. Subjective
Consequentialism and Actual vs. Expected Utility
§
Utilitarianism and
Population Ethics
o PHI 101: Introduction to
Philosophy – Spring 2008
o PHI 305: Ethical Theory
– Fall 2007
o PHI 420F/591H: Seminar
on Reasons and Value – Spring 2007
o PHI 420E/591E: Seminar
on the Limits of Morality – Spring 2006
· Recipes
o Fettuccine in Chipotle
Cream Sauce
· Favorite Links
o abebooks.com – a network of used and
out-of-print booksellers
o AddALL
– book search and price comparison
o Analysis
– a philosophy journal with
online preprints
o apaONLINE – American Philosophical Association
o ASU
o ASU ISP only
§
Blackboard at myASUcourses.edu
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JSTOR: Journal Storage
Project
§
MyASU
§
Routledge
Encyclopedia of Philosophy
§
ILLiad
– Interlibrary Loan
o ASU’s Policies
on Academic Integrity and Student Conduct
§
Procedures
for Pursuing Charges of Academic Dishonesty
§
Procedures
for Withdrawing Students for Disruptive Behavior
§
Student
Academic Integrity Policy
§
What
will my teacher think is plagiarism?
o Center for
Ethics and Public Affairs, The Murphy Institute, Tulane University
o Ethics
o Google – an excellent search engine
o Guidelines on
Writing a Philosophy Paper – by Jim
Pryor
o Grading
Rubric for Philosophy Papers
o How to Read a
Philosophy Paper – by Jim Pryor
o The Internet
Encyclopedia of Philosophy
o Journal of Ethics & Social Philosophy
o NPR
o The New York Times on the web
o Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
o Online
Papers in Philosophy – Reports
on changes to web pages hosting philosophical papers.
o PEA Soup
– A blog dedicated to philosophy,
ethics, and academia
o People
with online papers in philosophy
o The
Philosophical Gourmet Report – a ranking
of graduate programs
o Philosophy
Journal Information – a wiki
for sharing information about philosophy journals
o Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
o Subscribe
to Garner’s Usage Tip of the Day
o Tips on Writing a Philosophy Paper
– by Doug Portmore
o Utilitas
Last Updated: May 2, 2008