Moral Psych
Reading Group
Winter-Spring 2007 Schedule
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Dates:
Monday, January 8, 3:30pm (Sally's)
Reading: David Wong, Natural
Moralities, Ch. 9
Monday, January 29, 3:30pm (Larry's)
Reading: Weithman, "Two
Arguments from Human Dignity"
Monday, February 26, 3:30pm (Sally's)
Reading: Eamonn Callan, "Immigration,
Integration and Assimilation." (manuscript).
Monday, March 19,
3:30pm (Larry's)
Reading: Kok-Chor Tan, "Boundary
Making and Equal Concern," Metaphilosophy Vol. 36, Nos. 1/2,
January 2005.
Monday, April 9, 3:30pm (Sally's)
Reading: Gary Watson, "Excusing
Addiction"
Monday, April 30, 3:30pm (Larry's)
Reading: Samuel Scheffler, "Morality and
Reasonable Partiality"
Monday, May 21, 3:30pm (Sally's)
Reading: Henry Brighouse and Adam Swift, "Parents
Rights and the Value of the Family"
Future
readings and candidate papers for discussion:
Elizabeth
Anderson: "Recent
Thinking about Sexual Harassment: A Review Essay"
Galleotti, Anna
Elisabetta, "Contemporary
Pluralism and Toleration" Ratio Juris 10:2
(1997):223-235.
Reading: T. Scanlon, ’ÄúIntention and Permissibility,’Äù 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
Material from
previous terms:
David
Wong, "Pluralism
and Ambivalence," in Natural Moralities. Oxford
University Press, 2006.
Simon
Keller, ’ÄúPatriotism
as Bad Faith,’Äù 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
Fall 2006
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