Nature of Good

Robert Nozicks Experience Machine thought experiment asks you to consider the possibility of having your brain plugged into a machine that feeds you all the needed stimuli so as to perfectly recreate any situation you could possibly desire.  The simulations would be indistinguishable from what you are able to experience not plugged into the machine … Read more

Jones, doyle, and condorcet

answer the question referencing the uploaded material.QUESTION:  Drawing on your reading in Doyle and/or Jones, I want you to reflect on whether there are lessons to be drawn from the French Revolutionscientific laws of history if you will. Was the Revolution inevitable? Must Revolutions always be so violent? Do the unintended consequences of the Revolution … Read more

Conflicting Viewpoint Essay

This assignment is in 2 parts. part 1 is a prewriting essay that doesn’t have a page limit requirement, so it can be as short as 1 page. part 2 is the full paper that uses the prewriting from part 1. Part 2 is 3-4 pages minimum. The articles that are needed for this assignment … Read more

nursing

Required ResourcesRead/review the following resources for this activity: Textbook: Chapter 11LessonMinimum of 2 scholarly sourcesInstructionsDevelop, in detail,  a situation in which a health care worker might be confronted with ethical problems related to patients and prescription drug use OR patients in a state of poverty.Length: 3-4 pages (not including title page or references page)1-inch marginsDouble … Read more

Identifying Illogical Arguments

ANALYZING SOMEONE ELSE’ ARGUMENT! Part 1: Please find an argument to analyze.  Be creative!  Some suggestions are to use a commercial, letter to the editor (or op/ed piece).  Analyze the argument you choose. What is the main purpose of the argument? Is it inductive?  Deductive? Are there any fallacies being used?  If so, which ones?Part … Read more

Week 3 Assignment – Conflicting Viewpoints Essay: Part 1

The assignment is divided into two parts: the prewriting paper (Part 1) due this week, and the essay (Part 2) due in Week 5. OverviewWhen looking for information about a particular issue, how often do you try to resist biases toward your own point of view? This assignment asks you to engage in this aspect … Read more

Global warming

[Sian Proctor:] When you are constructing, you need a lot of concrete.  What a lot of people dont realize about concrete is that it actually generates a lot of heat. [Harry Pritchett, narrator:] When water is added to cement, it causes a chemical reaction that produces heat. ~ from Stargate in the Jungle, Strange Evidence, … Read more

Phl Unit 2 essay

After reading ch. 2 in Justice and then watching Episode 2 at http://www.justiceharvard.org/watch/, answer ONE of the following in a short essay of 250-350 words: 1. When is it morally allowed or permissible to use cost-benefit analysis to put a dollar value on human life? Give some examples. Explain.  When is the above not allowed? … Read more

philosophy essay

Essay I is due in Module 3 (Feb. 10). This assignment is worth a lot of points. I suggest you start thinking about which topic you want to write on. Note that you pick only one topic. You can write on a different topic, but please pass your idea by me first. Essay Topics I … Read more

Global warming

Based on our tips, forms, fallacies & all available evidence, is global warming real or a hoax: what’s the most logical explanation for the claims of so many scientists that global warming is real & due in significant part to human activities? use the quotes in the file and set up the ABC set to … Read more