Moral Psych Reading Group

Fall 2004 - Spring 2005 Schedule

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October 18: [LARRY’S]
Rahul Kumar, “Reasonable Reasons in Contractualist Moral Argument,”
Ethics, 114:1, October 2003: 6-37

November 8:
[LISA’S]
Amartya Sen, “Other People,”
New Republic, Dec. 18, 2000:1-14

November 29:
[SALLY’S]
Rachana Kamtekar, “Situationism and Virtue Ethics on the Content of Our Character,”
Ethics 114:3, April 2004: 458-491

December 20:
[LISA'S]
Christopher Kutz, “Justice in Reparations: The Cost of Memory and the Value of Talk,”
Philosophy and Public Affairs, 32:3, summer 2004: 277-312

January 10:
[LARRY’S]
Thomas McCarthy, “Coming to Terms With Our Past, II: On the Morality and Politics of Reparations for Slavery,”
Political Theory, Dec. 2004: 750-772 

Jan 31: [SALLY’S] <location tentative
Martha Nussbaum, 
“Objectification,”   ** Note that this reading has been moved to a new date (from 1/10).
Philosophy and Public Affairs, 24:4, fall 1995: 249-291 

Feb 28: [LISA’S]
A. Sen, “Elements of a Theory of Human Rights,”
Philosophy and Public Affairs, fall 2004: 314-356

Mar 21: [LARRY’S]
Iris M. Young, “Responsibility and Global Labor Justice,”
Journal of Political Philosophy, 2004:

April 11:  
[SALLY'S]
Judith Lichtenberg, "Absence and the Unfond Heart: Why People are Less Giving Than They Might Be."
In Deen K. Chatterjee, ed., The Ethics of Assistance, Cambridge University Press, 2004, pp. 75-97.

May    2:
[LISA'S]
Richard Moran, "Making Up Your Mind: Self-Interpretation and Self-Constitution."
In his Authority and Estrangement, Princeton University Press, 2001, pp. 36-65 (Ch. 2).

May 23: [LARRY'S]

Barry Barnes, "Practice as Collective Action."
In The Practice Turn in Contemporary Theory, ed., T. Schatzki, K. Knorr Cetina, Eike von Savigny.  Routledge, 2001, pp. 17-28.
Also???
Laurent Thévenot, "Pragmatic Regimes Governing the Engagement with the World."
also in (Schatzki et al 2001), pp. 56-71.

Useful links to related material

The Capability Approach Website (manuscripts of work in progress on the capability approach).

Pogge's "Can the Capability Approach Be Justified?" (pdf)



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