Category: Philosophy

hello you will need to access the book online as the essay is based on the readings from the book . here is the link of the book https://bookshelf.vitalsource.com/reader/books/9780190089603/epubcfi/6/2[%3Bvnd.vst.idref%3DcoverImage]!/4/2[coverImage]/4[cover-image]/2[logoCover]%4076:31
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Topics: Dass and Gorman Text, Ferrucci Text, Effective helpers and agents of change
Expected Length: 3 page paper; must include quotes from course texts
Assignment: thoughtfully reflect upon the prompt as it relates to the concepts addressed in this course. Papers must be typed and double spaced.
Content, grammar, and spelling will be taken into account in the grading of this reflective writing piece.
(See “Grading Components” below.) Best wishes!
PROMPT: Discuss how “helping” relates to social action, as discussed by Dass and Gorman in
Chapter 6. Also, include how concepts discussed by Ferrucci, such as humility, sense of belonging,
and service help us develop into more effective helpers and agents of change. Be thorough in your
discussion of these concepts or ideas. Provide important quotes from the readings, especially Chapter
6, to support your response. Explain how and why the quoted passages add significance or context to
your discussion.
Remember, in writing this Reflective Writing Piece, make sure you reference the texts, other readings,
class discussions, videos, etc. explicitly in your paper. Include quotes (at least 3) from the readings.
Papers should be approximately three pages in length. Papers must be typed and double spaced. Content,
grammar, and spelling will be taken into account in the grading of this Reflective Writing Piece. Please
see the following for specific grading components. Best wishes!
Grading Components:
1. Responsiveness: clearly and completely responds to the prompt; integrates the course readings and
class discussions; includes at least 3 quotes/citations from the readings in response to the prompt.
2. Critical Thinking and Reflection: insightful analysis and identification of key issues; deeper personal
reflection; links to course content. Is there evidence that the student has thought through their responses
to the prompt and that the student is thinking critically about the issues raised?
3. Communication Skills: writer is able to express ideas with fluidity, clarity, personal voice, and correct
grammar and spelling.
4. Turned in on time to Canvas. Late papers will not be accepted.
Reflective Writing Piece #2 Total: ________ (5 points possible)
PLEASE DO NOT USE ANY AI OR CHATGPT SOURCES ON THIS REFLECTION PIECE – I attached some chapters of dass and gorman and ferruci

These are not meant to be essay questions but if you give small answers you will get a small grade. Make sure you let me know that YOU know what you are talking about.
1. Melissa is a 80 year old woman with advanced dementia living in a nursing home. She has no short-term memory and only sometimes recognizes her daughter who is her only living relative. Her daughter considers her mother’s personhood as finished and currently existing in an undignified life. She seeks medical help to have her mother euthanatized. Is there any difference in how a Kantian and a utilitarian would respond?
2. Would a utilitarian and Martin Luther King Jr. agree or differ over a city’s policy of allowing racist groups to hold a public rally as long as they commit no acts of violence?
3. Consider the case of Mrs. Pamela Munson, who, late in her pregnancy (7 months), was warned by doctors not to take amphetamines, to stay off her feet, to avoid sexual intercourse, and to seek immediate treatment if she began hemorrhaging. Over the next week, she began to bleed, took amphetamines, and had intercourse with her husband. Herchild was born with massive brain damage and died in about six weeks. The District Attorney wanted to prosecute her for murder but settled for child neglect.
(1) Would a Principalist argue that her rights are being violated?
(2) Would an Originalist agree with the Principalist?
(3) Would her actions be considered immoral by the standard of Kant’s Categorical Imperative or by the standards of Natural Law?
4. Consider the case of Dr. Jariee Al-Hafi, an Iranian nuclear physicist who leads a team of scientists working on a project seeking to make Iran capable of building and launching nuclear (and biological) missiles capable of reaching the United States but for more probable use against its near neighbors. The research center where Al-Hafi works is located in one of Iran’s largest cities. Al-Hafi lives with this wife and two children in a large apartment complex within the same city. Both the research center and the apartment complex are well guarded by the Iranian military and not vulnerable to espionage. Assume for the sake of argument that Iran would pose a nuclear threat to the region and to the U.S. Use Anscombe’s just war position (from natural law) and then Mill’s utilitarianism to answer both of these questions.
(1) Would the U.S. be justified in launching an attack on the research center? 
(2) Would the U.S. be justified in destroying Al-Hafi’s apartment building when it is certain that he is in it?

In Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville writes, “The moral dominion of the majority is based in part on the idea that there is more enlightenment and wisdom in many men combined than in one man alone, more in the number than in the choice of legislators. It is the theory of equality applied to minds.” What does he mean by this claim, and how does he characterize the “theory of equality applied to minds” more generally? Compare and contrast these arguments with ones drawn from at least two other texts we have read so far this semester. Do those authors agree with Tocqueville about the risks associated with such beliefs?
Two authors: John s. Mill ( On liberty or other) and  Madison The federalist.
1500 words

Create a philiopshical essay. Do not write a summary. For an explanation of what is meant by an “argument” in philosophy, see Arguments: Why Do You Believe What You Believe? expand on the idea in phillopscial way.

Instructions listed in PDF, as well as the readings provided. Only allowed to use those readings when writing the paper and only using information found in there as a source.  I would like it to be written over Option B. Do we have free will? as that is what the readings talk about. 

Please answer each question with atleast 200 words, more or less depedning on the questi- on demand. 

1.) (a) In general, what is line-drawing and how can we use it to resolve unclear cases by comparing them with clear-cut cases (paradigms)? (b) Give an apt example.
2.) (Be certain to answer every part of this question and to itemize the parts of your answer (a) – (e) in accordance with the questions asked.)
According to the authors, how do engineers define risk? (b) How can this understanding be explicated in terms of cost-benefit analysis? (c) In contrast, how do the authors describe the layperson’s use of the word “risk” as a result of recurrent confusions and conflations? (d) How does this lay conception of risk tend to express a respect for persons, rather than utilitarian, approach to moral decision-making?
3.)(a) Describe the Milgram experiments. (b) Describe what, if anything, you take these experiments to tell us about the ways in which engineers might become “distanced” from the consequences of their decisions in large organizational contexts? (c) Describe two positive recommendations that Milgram offers on the basis of his research to encourage personal responsibility on the part of employees. (d) Describe the way in which the second of these recommendations might be undermined by the phenomenon of groupthink.
4.) (b) What is Leopold’s “non-anthropocentric” ethcis and (b) the authors’ modified non-anthropocentric ethics (on p. 178)? (c) Which do you find more palatable? Why?
5.)
(Be certain to answer every part of this question and to itemize the parts of your answer (a) – (c) in accordance with the questions asked.)
Referring to the Jonas reading address the following questions: How has (a) the recent vulnerability of nature, (b) the new role of knowledge in morality, and (c) the growing sense of nature as a “human trust” changed or expanded the features that need to be accounted for by an adequate modern ethics? 
https://www.basicincome.com/bp/files/The_Abolition_of_Man-C_S_Lewis.pdf
RESOURCES: http://www.lewisiana.nl/abolquotes/
Part 1 Summary: Video Search Results (yahoo.com)
Links to an external site.
Part 2 Summary: Video Search Results (yahoo.com)
Links to an external site.
Part 3 Summary: Video Search Results (yahoo.com)
Links to an external site.
https://www.lewisiana.nl/abolquotes/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3791249/
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NfE9o45tfNCD_3gIiWe62j1KcGI87exLkr8rNn8QlP8/edit?usp=sharing
https://docs.google.com/document/d/16owGsIZZMHX4n-JO2RE_7YqRTvIm7Jg27y5nlbVzThA/edit?usp=sharing
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nlCZ-v84orGzAcaOmbQ_HNqLXMmN_39FfxqKH3Zar1A/edit?usp=sharing
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1iMutpQEQrftU_eCeod0LFfnhMDGEUET8Intt3L07BMc/edit?usp=sharing
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1W-RRV7USsd0uHcqTQbJmf7CiJVRmGcznnS8iobSTkS8/edit?usp=sharing
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1nDbnZJCxqfvjOhbamGM3rgWW2ZK0vbti38cOBi4q83M/edit?usp=sharing
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1FnnVMuBQq8vQH5U3kY4ZIHzb_4_cKARd9oldknTVEHo/edit?usp=sharing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWaHOOS86aI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmIr6D79xq8
http://philosophy.uchicago.edu/faculty/files/nussbaum/Beyond%20the%20Social%20Contract.pdf

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1w5c3wAdetq0eMe1-yySm_gk5W04QBRgRRTFZGTZa2_k/edit?usp=sharing

Prompt:
For this essay, use the analytical method to explore two works of science fiction – one film and one short story. Situate your analysis within the context of contemporary philosophical questions about the main issue. Choose an option you did not do for Essay 5,
Option 1 – Becoming Posthuman
Philosophical Reading: George J. Annas, “The Man on the Moon”
Film: Gattaca
Stories (Choose 1): Edmond Hamilton, “The Man Who Evolved”(1931), Clifford D. Simak, “Desertion”(1944), Frank Herbert, “Seed Stock”(1970), Option 2 – Responding to Disaster
Philosophical Reading: Michael Stevenson, “Hope and Despair: Philosophical Considerations for Uncertain Times”Links to an external site.
Film: Children of Men
Stories (Choose 1): H. G. Wells, “The Star” (1897), Ray Bradbury, “There Will Come Soft Rains”(1950), J. G. Ballard, “The Cage of Sand”(1962), Octavia E. Butler, “Speech Sounds”(1983)
Citations
All stories (except for Bradbury, 1952) are from the following source (fill in the template):
AuthorLastName, AuthorFirstName. “Title of Story.” The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction, edited by Arthur B. Evans, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr., Joan Gordon, Veronica Hollinger, Rob Latham, and Carol McGuirk, Wesleyan University Press, 2010, pp. xx–xx.
Resources
The Method for Analysis Slide Presentation
Guidelines
The essay involves two drafts with peer review. The first draft should be a complete draft this time. The essay should be between 1,200-1,500 words (5-6 pages double-spaced).
The essay should use MLA format for in-text citations and Works Cited list.
The essay should include a heading, title, and page numbers.
The essay should be double-spaced with indented paragraphs.
The essay should have a clear introduction, body, and conclusion.
The introduction should (1) build shared context with the reader, (2) pose a problem, and (3) offer a thesis with a clear, arguable claim. Your paragraphs should show evidence of effective paragraph structure (topic sentences, restrictions/restatements, illustrations, explanations), coherence/cohesion, and handling of sources (summary, paraphrase, and quotation with citation).
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I already did option 1 for essay 5, so the only option left is responding to disaster (option 2). I have attached my work for Essay 5, please do a similar style for the analysis. The main feedback from essay 5 is to use direct quotes from the movie to prove my points more but everything else was perfect and lived up to their expectations. I also attached here the different stories for the assignment, please only use the attached files because they are extracts from larger texts so if you use a quote, make sure it can be found in the story I attached. There was a presentation the professor presented about methods of analysis which I will also attach. The link for the philosophical reading is this: https://therevealer.org/hope-despair-philosophical-considerations-for-uncertain-times/
Please do no hesitate to contact me for any questions or clarifications

This is a ten page final paper for my Philosophy of science class that literally has no instructions. This being said, it must analyze some specific aspect of Alex Rosenberg’s book titled Philosophy of Science, in the 4th edition. The pdf of the book is attached below, and the topic I would like the paper written on is “The Role of Paradigms in Scientific Progress”.Using the pdf attached below, make a case that Thomas Kuhn’s concept of paradigm shifts is more effective in explaining scientific progress than a gradual accumulation of knowledge, as suggested by the traditional scientific method . Adress relevant counterarguments in the paper as well, and use Chicago style for citations. Thankyou!