What is Consequentialism?

What is Deontology?

What is Contractarianism?

When does ethical theory help with applied ethics, and when does it not help?

What is the general form of an argument from analogy? What are the means of critiquing an argument from analogy?

What is the general form of an argument from inference to the best explanation? What are the means of critiquing an argument from inference to the best explanation?

What are the general forms of an argument by reduction to absurdity? What are the means of critiquing an argument by reduction to absurdity?

Be able to do the following:

Extract, explain, and critically evaluate Fullinwider's argument concerning killing in war.

Extract, explain, and critically evaluate Nathanson's argument concerning capital punishment.

Extract, explain, and critically evaluate Regan's argument concerning non-human animal rights.

Extract, explain, and critically evaluate Singer's argument concerning famine relief.

In general, be able to extract a logically organized and fully explicit argument from a text and critically evaluate it.