Note, readings are indicated by

This schedule is currently in draft form and highly subject to change.

[WM]	Williams and McEnerney
[GB]	Graff and Birkenstein
[BP]	Bekoff and Pierce
[WA]	Wallach and Allen

Wk	Day	Date	Topics	Readings	Assignment Due
0	Sun	8/22	Welcome, Information
	Mon Tue	8/23- 8/24	Registration and Advising	Listed in Assignment	Registration and Course Planning
	Thu	8/26	Writing and Revision Workshop	[WM] (General Reference, no particular reading)	First Writing Assignment
1	Tue	8/31	Introduction Redux	Course Syllabus [GB] Introduction [BP] Preface [WA] Introduction	First Writing Assignment, Revised
	Thu	9/2	Critical Reading	Adler How to Mark a Book [GB] What's Motivating This Writer? (Ch. 12) [BP] Morality in Animal Society (Ch. 1)	Close Reading
2	Tue	9/7	Reading and Time Management	[GB] They Say (Ch. 1) [GB] Her Point Is (Ch. 2) [WA] Why Machine Morality?	Calendar
	Thu	9/9	Discussions	[GB] I Take Your Point (Ch. 11) [BP] Foundations for Wild Justice	Time Plan
3	Tue	9/14	Summarizing	[GB] As He Himself Puts it (Ch. 3) [WA] Engineering Morality (Ch. 2)
	Thu	9/16	Citation	[WM] Preparing to Prove Your Point (Sec. 2.1) Gabriel (2010), Plagiarism Lines Blur for Students in Digital Age Academic Honesty booklet (Sections 1,2,3, and 5)	Citation and Academic Honesty
4	Tue	9/21	Thesis	Simpson, "Five Ways of Looking at a Thesis" [WM] What's your point? / What's a good point? (Sec. 1.3, 1.4) [WA] Do We Want Moral Machines? (Ch. 3)	Thesis Writing
	Thu	9/23	Argument	[BP] Cooperation (Ch. 3)	Reading and Argument Analysis First Writing Assignment, Final
5	Tue	9/28	Information Literacy	Knott, "Writing an Annotated Bibliography" Annotated Bibliography Applying an Argument	Discussion Leadership
	Thu	9/30	Primary Sources	Primary Sources
6	Tue	10/5	Research, Presentations	[WA] Can Robots Be Moral? (Ch. 4)	Annotation and Bibliography
	Thu	10/7	Discussion	[GB] Yes/No/Okay, But (Ch. 4) [GB] And Yet (Ch. 5) [WA] Philosophers, Engineers, and the Design of AMAs (Ch. 5) Asaro (2006), What Should We Want From a Robot Ethic?
7	Tue	10/12	Planning Writing	[WM] Preparing to Write and Drafting (Ch. 2) [GB] Skeptics May Object (Ch. 6) [GB] So What? Who Cares? (Ch. 7) [BP] Empathy (Ch. 4)	Argument Sentence Outline
	Thu	10/14	Discussion	[GB] As a Result (Ch. 8) [WA] Top-Down Morality (Ch. 6) Powers (2006), Prospects for a Kantian Machine
Enjoy Fall Break!
8	Tue	10/26	Revising	[GB] Ain't So/Is Not (Ch. 9) [WM] A Strategy for Analysing and Revising a First Draft (Ch. 3)	Argument Smooth Draft
	Thu	10/28	Liberal Education	Advising Partnership	Planning and Pre-Registration
9	Tue	11/2	Individual Pre-Registration Meetings
	Thu	11/4	Individual Pre-Registration Meetings		Argument Final Draft
10	Tue	11/9	Discussion	[BP] Justice (Ch. 5) Range et al., (2006) The absence of reward induces inequity aversion in dogs
	Thu	11/11	Linking	Palca (2010) Monkey Business: Fairness Isn't Just A Human Trait [mp3] (transcript) . Brauer et al. (2009) Are Apes Inequity Averse? New Data on the Token-Exchange Paradigm . Four Abstracts
11	Tue	11/16	Discussion	[WA] Bottom-Up and Developmental Approaches (Ch. 7) Harms et al. (1999), Biological Altruism in Hostile Environments
	Thu	11/18	Revision	[WA] Merging Top-Down and Bottom-Up (Ch. 8)	Research Proposal Smooth Draft
12	Tue	11/23	Fictional Perspectives	Grizzly Man Blade Runner
	Thu	11/25	Thanksgiving Break
13	Tue	11/30	Discussion	[WA] Beyond Reason (Ch. 10; pp. 139--152, 167--169) Pepe et al. (2008), Motive and Affect Based Control for Uninhabited Vehicles
	Thu	12/2	Discussion	[WA] Dangers, Rights, and Responsibilities (Ch. 12) [WA] (Ro)bot Minds and Human Ethics (Epilogue) Browse November's entries at the Moral Machines blog.	Final Research Proposal (Friday 4 PM)
14	Tue	12/7	Discussion	[BP] Animal Morality and its Discontents (Ch. 6) Kerth (2008), Causes and Consequences of Sociality in Bats
	Thu	12/9	Deep Thoughts