Weekly Exercises are due each Sunday night before class, by 6pm.
In sessions 6 and 12 students brought a printed copy of their essay draft to class and split into groups working with instructors.
| session | key dates |
|---|---|
| 1: Introduction | |
| 2: Empathy and Morality | |
| 3: Rodent Models of Empathy | |
| 4: Origins of Empathy and Prosociality | Final Essay Proposal due |
| 5: Psychopath and the Moral Brain | |
| 6: Essay Planning | |
| 7: Action Aversion | Final Essay: Draft 1 and Reading Plan due |
| 8: Learning, Change, Plasticity | |
| 9: Parochialism and the Moral Circle | |
| 10: Celebrating Intergroup Violence | |
| 11: Guilty Minds | |
| 12: Essay Planning | Final Essay: Draft 2 due |
| 13: Moral Variability | |
| 14: The Good Self | Final Essay due |
| 15: Science and Morality |