PHIL1444
Module Reading List
Dr Jessica Isserow
j.m.isserow@leeds.ac.uk
Tutor information is taken from the Module Catalogue
- Week 1 – Consequentialism – week commencing Jan 24
- Week 2 – Deontology – week commencing Jan 31
- Week 3 – Libertarianism – week commencing Feb 07
- Week 4 – Free Speech – week commencing Feb 14
- Week 5 – Moral Virtue – week commencing Feb 21
- Week 6 – Moral Imperfection– week commencing Feb 28
- Week 7 -- Situationism -- week commencing Mar 7
- Week 8 – Implicit Bias – week commencing Mar 14
- Week 9 – Personal Identity, Part 1– week commencing Mar 21
- Week 10 – Personal Identity, Part 2 –week commencing Apr 25
- Week 11 –The Metaphysics of Race–week commencing May 2
Week 1 – Consequentialism – week commencing Jan 24
Required reading
Bernard Williams: A critique of utilitarianism. In Nigel, Warburton (Ed.), Philosophy : basic readings. 2005, 2nd ed.
Elizabeth Ashford: Utilitarianism, Integrity, and Partiality
Week 2 – Deontology – week commencing Jan 31
Required reading
Judith Jarvis Thomson: The Trolley Problem
Week 3 – Libertarianism – week commencing Feb 07
Required reading
Robert Nozick, Anarchy, state and utopia Part II, Chapter 7 (‘Distributive Justice’) Section I. Available as an Online Course Reading in Minerva
* Please read pages 149-164 and pages169-173 of Nozick *
Gerald A. Cohen: Robert Nozick and Wilt Chamberlain: How Patterns Preserve Liberty
Optional reading
Jonathan Wolff, Chapter 4: 'The Entitlement Theory of Justice'. In his Robert Nozick: Property, Justice and the Minimal State.
Week 4 – Free Speech – week commencing Feb 14
Required reading
Abigail Levin: Pornography, Hate Speech, and Their Challenge to Dworkin's Egalitarian Liberalism.
Optional reading
Dworkin, Ronald. (1996). 'Mckinnon's words' (pages 227-239 of 'Part II Freedom, Conscience, and Sex') in his Freedom's Law: The Moral Reading of the American Constitution Available as an Online Course Reading in Minerva
Week 5 – Moral Virtue – week commencing Feb 21
Required reading
Driver, Julia. (2001). 'Chapter 4: A Consequentialist Account of Virtue.' In her Uneasy virtue. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press
* Please read pages 63-77 of Driver *
Rae Langton: Virtues of Resentment
Week 6 – Moral Imperfection– week commencing Feb 28
Required reading
Susan Wolf: Moral Saints
Optional reading
Slote, Michael. (1989). Chapter 4 of Goods and virtues. Clarendon Paperback. Available as an Online Course Reading in Minerva
Week 7 -- Situationism -- week commencing Mar 7
Required Reading
Sreenivasan, Gopal. 2013. The situationist critique of virtue ethics. In Russel, Daniel C. (Ed.), The Cambridge companion to virtue ethics, pp.290-314.
Optional reading
Harman, Gilbert. (2000) 'The Nonexistence of Character Traits'.
Week 8 – Implicit Bias – week commencing Mar 14
Required reading
Washington, Natalia & Kelly, Daniel. (2016). 'Who’s responsible for this? Moral responsibility, externalism and knowledge about implicit bias.' In M. Brownstein, & J. Saul (Eds.), Implicit bias and philosophy, volume 2. Oxford University Press.
Week 9 – Personal Identity, Part 1– week commencing Mar 21
Required reading
Parfit, Derek. “Chapter 10: What we believe ourselves to be.” In his Reasons and Persons
* Please read pages 199-210 of Parfit Chapter 10 *
Parfit, Derek. “Chapter 12: Why our identity is not what matters.” In his Reasons and Persons
* Please read pages 253-266 of Parfit Chapter 12 *
Week 10 – Personal Identity, Part 2 –week commencing Apr 25
Required reading
Olson, Eric, “Chapter 4: Was I Ever a Fetus?” In his The human animal : personal identity without psychology. Oxford University Press, (1997): 73-93.
Week 11 –The Metaphysics of Race–week commencing May 2
Required reading
Ney, Alyssa. “Chapter 10: The Metaphysics of Race”. In her Metaphysics: An Introduction. London: Routledge (2014).
This list was last updated on 03/03/2022