Archive

Previous reading lists:

Fall 2017

• • John Rawls, Selections from Political Liberalism

  • Susan Okin, Selections from Justice, Gender, and the Family

  • Gina Schouten, Manuscript for Liberalism, Neutrality, and the Gendered Division of Labor

  • Kyron Huigens, "Virtue and Inculpation"

  • Ian Carter, "How are Power and Unfreedom Related?"

  • Elizabeth Anderson, "Liberty, Equality, and Private Government"

Winter 2018

• • Joseph Raz, The Morality of Freedom

Spring 2018

• • Joseph Raz, The Morality of Freedom (continued)

  • Elizabeth Anderson, Selections from Value in Ethics and Economics

  • Marc Stears, "The Vocation of Political Theory: Principles, Empirical Inquiry, and the Politics of Opportunity"

  • Chris Bertram, Selection from Do States Have the Right to Exclude Immigrants?

  • Judith Shklar, "The Liberalism of Fear"

Summer 2018

• • Robert Paul Wolff, In Defense of Anarchism

  • Tommie Shelby, We Who Are Dark

  • Claudia Card, "Gender and Moral Luck"

Fall 2018

• • G. A. Cohen, "Why Not Socialism?"

  • Danielle Allen, "Education and Equality"

  • Martha Nussbaum, Anger and Forgiveness: Resentment, Generosity, Justice

Spring 2019

• • Maynard and Worsnip, "Is there a distinctively political normativity?"

  • Hannah Arendt, "The Crisis in Education"

  • David Enoch, "The masses and the elites: political philosophy for the age of Brexit, Trump and Netanyahu"

  • David Enoch, "Against Pubic Reason"

  • David Enoch, "Political Philosophy and Epistemology: The Case of Public Reason"

  • Fabian Wendt, "Rescuing Public Justification from Public Reason Liberalism"

Summer 2019 (combined with MAP reading group)

• • Jason Brennan and Philip Magness, Cracks in the Ivory Tower: The Moral Mess of Higher Education

  • G. A. Cohen, "The Structure of Proletarian Unfreedom"

  • Robert van der Veen and Philippe van Parijs, "A Capitalist Road to Communism"

  • Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, "It's Not My Fault: Global Warming and Individual Moral Obligations"

  • Gina Schouten, "Political liberalism and autonomy education: Are citizenship-based arguments enough?"

  • Tara Westover, Educated: A Memoir

  • Tommie Shelby: "Prisons of the Forgotten: Ghettos and Economic Justice" from To Shape a New World: Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King Jr.

  • Shatema Threadcraft and Brandon Terry, "Gender Trouble," from To Shape a New World: Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King Jr.

Fall 2019:

• • Elizabeth Anderson, "The Epistemology of Democracy."

  • David Lewis, "The Punishment that Leaves Something to Chance"

  • David Estlund, "Human Nature and the Limits (If Any) of Political Philosophy"

  • Agnes Callard, Aspiration: The Agency of Becoming