Testi di riferimento
For the exam, students are required to study all the texts in Section A, and any ONE of the four lists of texts in Section B, below.
All of the texts can be purchased as collections of photocopies at the CLU bookshop, Via San Fermo 3, Pavia, from mid-September 2019 onwards. Ask for the “dispense” for:
1. “Normative Political Theory 2019-20, Section A”, and
2. “Normative Political Theory 2019-20, Section B, List 1/2/3/4”, specifying your chosen list for Section B.
SECTION A
Ian Carter, “Liberty”, in K. McKinnon, R. Jubb and P. Tolmin (eds), Issues in Political Theory, 4th ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019).
Peter Jones, Rights (London: Macmillan, 1994), chs 1 and 2, pp. 12-44.
Tom Campbell, “Human Rights”, in K. McKinnon (ed.), Issues in Political Theory, 3rd ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press), pp. 168-89.
Adam Swift, Political Philosophy. A Beginners’ Guide for Students and Politicians, 3rd ed. (Cambridge: Polity, 2014), pp. 11-48.
Stuart White, Equality (Cambridge: Polity, 2007), ch. 4, “Luck egalitarianism”, pp. 78-97.
Monica Mookherjee, “Case Study: The Muslim Veil”, in K. McKinnon (ed.), Issues in Political Theory, 3rd ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press), pp. 161-66.
"Human Rights: Hate Speech", from K. McKinnon (ed.), Issues in Political Theory, 3rd ed., online resources:
https://global.oup.com/uk/orc/politics/pol_theory/mckinnon3e/student/cases/
SECTION B
List 1: Freedom
Isaiah Berlin, from “Two Concepts of Liberty (1969)”, in I. Carter, M.H. Kramer and H. Steiner (eds), Freedom. A Philosophical Anthology (Oxford: Blackwell, 2007), pp. 39-58.
F.A. Hayek, from The Constitution of Liberty (1960), in I. Carter, M.H. Kramer and H. Steiner (eds), Freedom. A Philosophical Anthology (Oxford: Blackwell, 2007), pp. 104-109.
Isaiah Berlin, from “Two Concepts of Liberty (1969)”, in I. Carter, M.H. Kramer and H. Steiner (eds), Freedom. A Philosophical Anthology (Oxford: Blackwell, 2007), pp. 131-32.
Charles Taylor, from “What’s Wrong with Negative Liberty” (1979), in I. Carter, M.H. Kramer and H. Steiner (eds), Freedom. A Philosophical Anthology (Oxford: Blackwell, 2007), pp. 153-62.
John Christman, from “Liberalism and Individual Positive Freedom”, in I. Carter, M.H. Kramer and H. Steiner (eds), Freedom. A Philosophical Anthology (Oxford: Blackwell, 2007), pp. 148-52.
Philip Pettit, from Republicanism (1997), in I. Carter, M.H. Kramer and H. Steiner (eds), Freedom. A Philosophical Anthology (Oxford: Blackwell, 2007), pp. 110-119.
Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein, Nudge. Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness (London: Penguin, 2008), “Introduction”, pp. 1-15.
Daniel M. Hausman and Brynn Welch, “To Nudge or Not to Nudge”, Journal of Political Philosophy, 18 (2010), pp. 123-36.
List 2: Rights
Peter Jones, Rights (London: Macmillan, 1994), ch 3, pp. 45-71.
Jeremy Waldron, “A Right to Do Wrong”, Ethics, 92 (1981), pp. 21-39.
Jan Narveson, The Libertarian Idea (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1988), pp. 66-68.
Judith Jarvis Thomson, “A Defense of Abortion”, Philosophy and Public Affairs, 1 (1971), pp. 47-66.
Michael Sandel, Justice. What’s the Right Thing to Do? (London: Penguin, 2010), pp. 70-74.
Anne Phillips, Our Bodies, Whose Property? (Princeton: Princeton University Press), ch. 1, pp. 18-41.
Onora O’Neill, “The Dark Side of Human Rights”, in T. Christiano and J. Christman (eds), Contemporary Debates in Political Philosophy (Oxford: Blackwell, 2009), pp. 425-36.
James W. Nickel, “A Defense of Welfare Rights as Human Rights”, in T. Christiano and J. Christman (eds), Contemporary Debates in Political Philosophy (Oxford: Blackwell, 2009), pp. 437-56.
List 3: Distributive Justice
F.A. Hayek, The Constitution of Liberty (London: Routledge, 1960), c h. 6, pp. 85-102.
John Rawls, A Theory of Justice (Cambridge Mass., Harvard University Press, 1999), secs 1-6, pp. 3-30.
Robert Nozick, “Moral Constraints and Distributive Justice”, in M. Sandel (ed.), Liberalism and its Critics (Oxford: Blackwell, 1984), pp. 100-122.
F. A. Hayek, from The Constitution of Liberty (1960), in I. Carter, M.H. Kramer and H. Steiner (eds), Freedom. A Philosophical Anthology (Oxford: Blackwell, 2007), pp. 356-57.
Murray Rothbard, from The Ethics of Liberty, in I. Carter, M.H. Kramer and H. Steiner (eds), Freedom. A Philosophical Anthology (Oxford: Blackwell, 2007), pp. 362-64.
Philippe Van Parijs, from Real Freedom for All (1995), in I. Carter, M.H. Kramer and H. Steiner (eds), Freedom. A Philosophical Anthology (Oxford: Blackwell, 2007), pp. 366-69.
G. A. Cohen, from Self-ownership, Freedom and Equality (1995), in I. Carter, M.H. Kramer and H. Steiner (eds), Freedom. A Philosophical Anthology (Oxford: Blackwell, 2007), pp. 370-75.
Philippe Van Parijs, “A Basic Income for All”, in J. Cohen and J. Rogers (eds), What’s Wrong with a Free Lunch? (Boston: Beacon Press, 2001), pp. 3-26.
List 4: Equality
Ian Carter, “Equality”, in A. Besussi (ed.), A Companion to Political Philosophy. Methods, Tools, Topics (Farnham: Ashgate, 2012), pp. 161-70.
Amartya Sen, Inequality Reexamined (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992), chs 2 and 3, pp. 31-55.
John E. Roemer, “Equality and Responsibility”, Boston Review, 20 (1995), http://bostonreview.net/archives/BR20.2/roemer.html.
Marc Fleurbaey, “Equal Opportunity or Equal Social Outcome?”, Economics and Philosophy, 11 (1995), only pp. 38-43.
Jonathan Wolff, “Fairness, Respect, and the Egalitarian Ethos”, Philosophy and Public Affairs, 27 (1998), pp. 97-122.
Jonathan Wolff, “Case Study: Social Justice and Disability”, in K. McKinnon (ed.), Issues in Political Theory, 3rd ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press), pp. 115-118.
Michael Sandel, Justice. What’s the Right Thing to Do? (London: Penguin, 2010), ch. 7: “Arguing Affirmative Action”, pp. 167-183.
Ronald Dworkin, Taking Rights Seriously (London: Duckworth, 1977), ch. 9: “Reverse Discrimination”, pp. 223-39.