Moral Psych Reading Group
Winter 2006 Schedule
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Dates: Winter/spring
’06
Jan 9: Thomas Hill, "Four Conceptions
of Conscience" from Human Welfare and Moral Worth, @ LARRY’S
Jan 30: Susan Wolf, "The True, the Good
and the Lovable: Frankfurt's Avoidance of Objectivity," @ LARRY’S
Feb 27: Christine Swanton, "Virtue and the
Good Life," 57-76, and "Demandingness," 198-211, from Virtue Ethics: A Pluralistic View. @
SALLY’S
Mar 20: Lesley Jacobs, "Equal Opportunities
and Civil Rights: Merit, Standardized Tests and Higher Education" from Pursuing Equal Opportunities, 83-115.
@ SALLY’S
April 10: Howard McGary, "Responsiblity and
Historic Injustice" (manuscript). @ LARRY’S
May 1: Cheshire Calhoun, "Common Decency,"
in C. Calhoun, ed., Setting the Moral Compass (Oxford University Press,
2004): 128-142. @ SALLY's.
May 22: Tommie Shelby, "Black Solidarity
after Black Power," in T. Shelby, We Who Are Dark (Harvard University
Press, 2005): 136-160. @ LARRY's.
Other papers of interest:
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
Thomas Pogge "Can the Capability
Approach Be Justified?" (pdf)
NB: For group discussion, read section 3 to end (pp. 33-70)
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.
Fall 04 - Spring
05.
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