We are a group of Wisconsin philosophy graduate students, undergraduate students, and faculty with wide-ranging interests in social and political philosophy, broadly construed. If you have questions about the reading group or would like to join the email list, please contact Emma Prendergast at eprendergas2@wisc.edu. This page will be updated throughout the year with our schedule and other announcements.

The Spring 2020 meeting location is the Smitty's Study Pub in the Fluno Center.

Schedule:

Tuesday, Feb. 11, 6:00PM:

G. A. Cohen, "Karl Marx and the Withering Away of Social Science" & Chris Bertram, "Analytical Marxism"

March 5th, 6:00PM:

Adam Przeworski and John Sprague, Paper Stones: A History of Electoral Socialism

April 2nd, 6:00PM:

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

April 23rd, 6:00pm (online):

G. A. Cohen, Why Not Socialism?

June 6th, 11:00am (online):

Jason Brennon, Why Not Capitalism?

June 22nd, 11:00am (online):

Tommie Shelby, "Impure Dissent" from Dark Ghettos

July 8th, 11:00am (online):

Wright, Levine & Sober, "Marxism and Methodological Individualism"

July 29th, 10:00am (online):

Jon Elster, "Philosophical Anthropology" from Marking Sense of Marx

August 19th, 10:00am (online):

David Enoch, "False Consciousness for Liberals: Part I: Consent, Autonomy, and Adaptive Preferences"