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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