This page will be used to post announcements relevant to Prof. Stairs's 140 class, and to provide links to the syllabus, to notes and to other bits of information

• The Syllabus
• The First Essay (due Wednesday, June 10)
• The Second Essay (due Wednesday, June 24)

The Contest: Click the Picture

• Introduction to Web Page Construction
• John Stuart Mill on Utilitarianism
• James Rachels on Utilitarianism
• More on Web Page Construction
• Kant's Ethical Theory
• Judith Thomson on Abortion
• Mary Ann Warren on Personhood and Abortion
• Jane English on Abortion and the Coherence of Attitudes
• Marquis on Abortion
• Brandt on Punishment plus a Bit of Lewis
• Kant on Punishment
• van den Haag on Capital Punishment
• Yet More on Web Page Construction
• Finnis on Homosexuality
• Mohr on Homosexuality
• Horowitz: Homosexuality's Legal Revolution
• Cameron: An Argument for Discriminating Against Homosexuality

• Episteme Links, a useful set of resources for philosophers.
• Twist & Shout in Bethesda. The place Mary Chapin was singing about.
• Online Webster's Dictionary
• Weather Forecasts
• Theater Look-Up
• Mapquest: Driving Directions
• Want to go dancing?
• Her album was listed as one of the 10 best of 1997 by the Post's Richard Harrington. I agree.
• Morphine (the band, not the drug)
• Like Ska? Phantasmagoria in Wheaton has it several times a month. Smoke-free, too.
• How about Western Swing? The Oklahoma Twisters are as good as it gets this side of Asleep at the Wheel
• The 9:30 Club
• Dwight Yoakam
• ("What's Dwight Yoakam got to do with philosophy?" you ask? Click here to find out.)