Moral Psych Reading Group

Fall 2006 Schedule

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Dates:
 
Monday, September 18, 3:30pm (Larry's)
Reading: Tim Scanlon, "The Diversity of Objections to Inequality," in The Ideal of Equality, ed. Matthew Clayton and Andrew Williams (New York: Palgrave McMillan, 2002), pp. 41-59.

Monday, October 16, 3:30pm (Sally's)
Reading: David Wiggins, "A First-order Ethic of Solidarity and Reciprocity," in Twelve Lectures on the Philosophy of Morality.  (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006), pp. 229-266.

Monday, November 6, 3:30pm (Larry's)
Reading:
Michael Slote, "Autonomy and Empathy," in Morality and Politics, ed., Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred D. Miller, Jr., and Jeffrey Paul.  Cambridge University Press, 2004.
NOTE: Larry has circulated by email an updated version of this!

Monday, November 27, 3:30pm (Sally's)
David Wong, "Pluralism and Ambivalence," in Natural Moralities.  Oxford University Press, 2006.

Monday, December 18, 3:30pm (Larry's)
Samuel Scheffler, "Conceptions of Cosmopolitanism," in Boundaries and Allegiances.  Oxford University Press, 2001.

Future readings and candidate papers for discussion:

Anna Stubblefield, "Races as Families," in Ethics Across the Color Line.  Cornell University Press, 2005.

Reading: 
T. Scanlon, “Intention and Permissibility,” Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume, Volume 74, Issue 1, Page 301-317, Jul 2000.  (Anyone have a copy of this?  If you send it to me I'll make the pdf and post it....THANKS, Sally)

Philip Pettit, "Non-Consequentialism and Political Philosophy," in David Schmidtz, ed., Robert Nozick,  Cambridge University Press, 2002, pp. 83-104


Useful links to related material
The Capability Approach Website (manuscripts of work in progress on the capability approach).

Material from previous terms:
Simon Keller, “Patriotism as Bad Faith,” Ethics, vol. 115, #3, April 2005: 563-592
Nomy Arpaly, "Moral Worth," from Unprincipled Virtue, pp. 67-115.
Lesley Jacobs, "Equal Opportunity as a Regulative Ideal," in Lesley Jacobs, Pursuing Equal Opportunities: The Theory and Practice of Egalitarian Justice, Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Thomas Pogge "Can the Capability Approach Be Justified?" (pdf)

Links to readings and schedule from:
Fall 04 - Spring 05.
Winter-Spring 06
Summer 2006


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