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Subject |
Related Preparation |
1) |
Introduction |
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2) |
Who's to Say What's Right and Wrong? |
Sharvy. R. 2007. Who’s To Say What’s Right or Wrong? People Who Have Ph.D.’s in Philosophy, That’s Who. Journal of Libertartian Studies, 21 (3): 3-24. |
3) |
Values: Objectivity and Subjectivity |
McConnell, Terrance C. “Objectivity and Moral Expertise,” Canadian Journal of Philosophy XIV (2) (June 1984), pp. 193-207. |
4) |
Identifying Values in Politics I: Plato |
Plato. 2008. Crito, Oxford World’s Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. |
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Identifying Values in Politics II: Aristotle |
Sandel, M. 2010. Justice: What is the Right Thing to Do. Farrar, Straus and Giroux: New York. pp, 98-109 |
6) |
Value-neutral Politics I: Utilitarianism? |
J. Harris. 1975. Survival Lottery. Philosophy 50. |
7) |
MIDTERM |
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8) |
Value-neutral Politics II: Machiavelli's Politics Free from Confusion |
Machiavelli. N. 1992. The Prince. Dover: Dover Publications. |
9) |
Values, Duty and Suicide: Kant |
Langton R. 1992. Duty and Desolation. Philosophy 67: 481-505. |
10) |
Ethical Perspectives on Biomedical Science: David E. Cooper |
Cooper. D. E. 2002. The Frankensteinian Nature of Biotechnology. Aldershot: Ashgate. |
11) |
Identifying Values in Science: Social Phenomena Sartre |
Sartre. J. P. 2007. Existentialism is Humanism. London: Yale University Press |
12) |
Identifying Values in Freedom I: Berlin's Value Free/ValueLaden Conceptions of Freedom |
Berlin. I. 2002. “Two Concepts of Liberty”, in Liberty ed. H. Hardy. Oxford: Oxford University Press. |
13) |
Identifying Values in Freedom II: Heidegger's Existence and Freedom |
Heidegger. M. 1962. Being and Time. Trans. John Macquarrie and Edward Robinson. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. |
14) |
Overview and Feedback |
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Course Notes / Textbooks: |
You do not need to buy any books for Readings in Philosophy, but you may need to print the reader (primary sources), which I will provide to you weekly via itslearning. Apart from these, as a first port of call on any particular topic, check out the online Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy (http://plato.stanford.edu/). The Routledge Encyclopaedia of Philosophy is also particularly useful. It is available on-line.
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References: |
You do not need to buy any books for Readings in Philosophy, but you may need to print the reader (primary sources), which I will provide to you weekly via itslearning. Apart from these, as a first port of call on any particular topic, check out the online Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy (http://plato.stanford.edu/). The Routledge Encyclopaedia of Philosophy is also particularly useful. It is available on-line.
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