PHIL10002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Philippa Foot, Judith Jarvis Thomson, Elizabeth Anscombe

• School: University of Melbourne
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL10002
• Professor: Peter Singer

Document Summary

The problem of abortion and the doctrine of double effect , oxford. Who is wronged? philippa foot on double effect: one point , First, we"ll get the administrative issues out of the way: how the course will run, what you need to do, and any questions you might have. Then i"m going to set up two cases, which we"ll have a bit of time to talk about, and in the next lecture we"ll get into some of the arguments regarding them. (i) administrative information. All of the information we went over in class is available in the syllabus, which is posted to the lms site for the course. Please look in particular at information about tutorials, assessment, and plagiarism. (ii) setting up the cases. The essential reading for this lecture was philippa foot"s the problem of abortion and the doctrine of double effect , and the supplementary reading was a very brief reply from foot"s colleague at oxford, elizabeth anscombe.