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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