Course Materials
Philosophy 120—Intro to Ethics
Michael Taber

St. Mary’s College of Maryland (USA)

1.     We will be using but one book this semester, and it will be online, on Perusall:

College Ethics: A Reader on Moral Issues That Affect You, edited by Bob Fischer, 2nd ed. (2021: Oxford University Press); ISBN: 978-0190063337--$43 for a 180-day rental from Perusall.

Everyone will need to rent an electronic copy from Perusall in order to complete the daily multiple Perusall assignments.

In order to access and annotate the readings on Perusall, each student will need to create a Perusall account, and after registering there, enter this course code for my Phil 120: TABER-VZTHZ

Once you have an account set up, you can use this direct link.

This is the COURSE code, for getting registered for the Perusall page for this course. Once you’re registered, Perusall will ask you to pay money to rent the book or to enter an ACCESS code, for getting access to the readings. There is no ACCESS code for this course. Students can access the readings only by paying Perusall to rent the book. (That's the deal that the publishers make with Perusall. An "access code" for getting the readings is used only when there's no copyrighted material that an instructor is using for a course.)

So use the course's "course code" to get yourself in at Perusall. Then pony up the greenbacks to rent the book.

2.     Some documents for the course are located in the course’s Google folder. These include the sign-up sheets for some exams and papers, as well as some assignments for small papers.

 

3.     Depending on the path our discussions take, I may circulate to you as handouts occasional readings not listed in the Course Schedule.

 

4.     Some of the readings in the semester schedule (as well as some that I’ll send you throughout the semester) are links to articles in the New York Times, the Washington Post, or The Economist. Believe it or not, each of you already has a subscription to all three, thanks to our library having a site license for all SMCM students, faculty, and staff. (Your tuition $$ at work!)

You just need to activate your subscription (free!), using your smcm.edu account. Here are our library’s instructions for each of the three:  the Washington Post, the New York Times, and The Economist.

(Don’t try to do it from within any other account. And be sure that when you go to activate, you don't have an already existing tab open to any of these three websites, as you might if you tried to open a link without first having gone through your activation.)

Send me mail:  mstaber at smcm dot edu

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