Colloquium in Legal, Political and Social
Philosophy
Fall 2006
Professors: Ronald Dworkin, Thomas Nagel, Jeremy Waldron
Seminar Home | Readings | Schedule of Speakers | Course Description
Reading # 1 - William Talbott – September 7th, 2006
Toward a Revival of Consequentialism
(Participants should read Chapters A and B.; Chapter C is included as further
discussion and should be read if time permits)
Reading # 2 – Jeremy Waldron - September 14th, 2006
The Concept and the Rule of Law
Reading # 3 – Sophia Moreau – September 21st, 2006
Reading # 4 – Samuel Issacharoff – September 28th, 2006
*This is a long paper. Those who are pressed for time should concentrate on Parts I (pp. 9-13) and III (pp. 40-50), and perhaps economize on the long central section (Part II, pp. 13-40). Even so, readers should dip into Part II judiciously, so that they are at least familiar with the idea of content-restriction (pp. 14-20) and the three main types of prohibited parties (pp. 24, 27, and 31).
Reading # 5 – Jürgen Habermas – October 5th, 2006
Reading # 6 – Jürgen Habermas – October 12th, 2006
TO PARTICIPANTS IN THE COLLOQUIUM: THOSE WHO ARE SHORT OF TIME CAN SKIP SECTIONS IV AND V.
Reading # 7- Lewis Kornhauser - October 19th, 2006
Legal Foundations of Economic Analysis of Law
Reading # 8 - Samuel Scheffler - October 26th, 2006
Immigration and the Significance of Culture
The article is available on line
at http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1088-4963.2007.00101.x
Reading # 9 – Noah Feldman – November 2nd, 2006
Reading #10 – Thomas Scanlon – November 9th, 2006
Blame
NOTE : Those short of time may skip pages 33 to 36 and pages after 63.
Reading #11 – Jack Balkin - November 16th, 2006
Abortion and Original Meaning
NOTE: Those pressed for time should concentrate on pages 1 to 43 and 53 to 58.
Reading #12 – Ronald Dworkin - November 30th, 2006
Justice for Hedgehogs. Excerpts
Note for the Colloquium
This reading consists of two draft chapters from a book I am writing, preceded by a long synopsis of the book as a whole. I include the long synopsis for two reasons. First, the two chapters are not free standing. They discuss a series of traditional issues in moral philosophy and though some of the substantive views I defend are novel I wrote these chapters mainly as part of the more general project the synopsis describes. Second, I would value some discussion of that more general project if that is possible. The whole paper is not longer than the usual contributions but the argument is more compressed. I suggest that those who wish to skip part of the argument choose to skip Part I of the synopsis: Moral Truth. We have discussed most of that material in this Colloquium in a past year. Dogg ' s Hamlet, incidentally, is Tom Stoppard ' s version of the play, abridged to a running time of just under five minutes.
Reading #13 –Thomas Pogge - December 7th, 2006
Colloquium Participants:
Professor Pogge has given us two overlapping papers on issues about global health and pharmaceutical research: (1) “Incentives for Pharmaceutical Research” and (2) “Human Rights and Global Health.” Both are reasonable brief. Paper (1) is more recent and more in need of comments, Professor Pogge says, so he suggests that we focus our discussion on paper (1) and read (2) as background. There is a further background paper - (3) "What is Global Justice?" – also available on the website, which Colloquium participants should read if they are interested in discussing Professor Pogge's general views on global justice.
1. Incentives for Pharmaceutical Research:
Must They Exclude the Poor from Advanced Medicines?
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2. Human Rights and Global Health: A Research Program
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Each week's paper will be up-dated on the website at least a week in advance, and participants are expected to have read it.
The papers presented on this site may not be quoted
