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
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,
"How
Liberal Is Democracy?," in D. MacLean and C.
Mills (eds.), Liberalism Reconsidered,