WINTER SEMESTER – Philosophy 450

 

WEEK 1: Mon. Jan. 6-Fri. Jan. 10:
Jan 6 : class cancelled / Jan 8: Maritain

 

WEEK 2: Mon. Jan 13-Fri. Jan. 17
Jan 13: class cancelled / Jan 15: Maritain

 

WEEK 3: Mon. Jan. 20-Fri. Jan. 24
John Rawls: A Theory of Justice (selections)  [Wed. - Adam]

 

WEEK 4: Mon. Jan. 27-Fri. Jan. 31
Robert Nozick: Anarchy, State and Utopia (selections)  [Wed. - Chelsie]

 

WEEK 5: Mon. Feb. 3-Fri. Feb. 7
Contemporary Libertarianism: Tibor Machan [Wed. - Catherine]

 

WEEK 6: Mon. Feb. 10-Fri. Feb. 14
Alan Gewirth: Human Rights (selections) [
Wed. - Erica]

 

WEEK 7: Mon. Feb. 17-Fri. Feb. 21
Cultural Pluralism  [Wed. - Matt  M.]


Winter Reading Week: Mon. Feb. 24-Fri. Feb. 28

 

WEEK 8: Mon. March 3-Fri. March 7

Contemporary Communitarianism (Charles Taylor or Alasdair MacIntyre) [Mon. - Will]

 

WEEK 9: Mon. March 10-Fri. March 14

Juergen Habermas : "Multiculturalism and the Liberal State" from 47 Stanford Law Review 849. (1995). [Mon. - Matt H.]

WEEK 10: Mon. March 17-Fri. March 21

Thematic presentation 1 [Ellen]/ Thematic presentation 2 [Ian S.]

 

WEEK 11: Mon. March 24-Fri. March 28
Feminist accounts and critiques OR ‘Deliberative Democracy’ (Amy Gutmann) // TBA

 

WEEK 12: Mon. March 31-Fri. April 4

Post Modern’ accounts (Richard Rorty) [Mon. - Josh]


WEEK 13: Mon. April 6-Wed. April 9

Asian Values and Human Rights [Mon. - Ian Y.]

 

WINTER FINAL EXAM: Wednesday, APRIL 23

 

 

 

 

 

 

Amy Guttman

"Why Deliberative Democracy Is Different," (with Dennis Thompson), Social Philosophy & Policy, vol. 17, no. 1 (2000), pp. 161-180.

"Deliberative Democracy and Majority Rule," in H. Harold Koh and Ronald Slye, eds., Deliberative Democracy and Human Rights, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999, pp. 247-254.

"How Liberal Is Democracy?," in D. MacLean and C. Mills (eds.), Liberalism Reconsidered, Totowa, N.J.: Rowman and Allanheld, 1983, pp. 25-50.