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TEACHING RESOURCES
1. GENERAL
a. Email etiquette in academic contexts here
b. Guidelines for essay writing here.
c. Guide to referencing here
d. How to do it. Students often ask me 'but how do you do it?'. By this they mean, usually, 'how do you work out how to defend your views? What's a good argument in political philosophy? How do you move from stating an intution to making an argument?' Jerry Cohen, who held the Chichele Chair in Political and Social Theory at Oxford from 1985 to 2008, and who was one of the most influential political philosophers of his generation, used to give a presentation precisely on these issues to graduate students at the start of his political philosophy seminar. The essay has been reprinted in the first volume of his collected papers. I can think of no better introduction to the topic than this. See G. A. Cohen, 'How to do Political Philosophy?' in G. A. Cohen (ed. M. Otsuka), On the Currency of Egalitarian Justice and Other Essays in Political Philosophy (Princeton University Press, 2010.). There are other ways to do political philosophy, of course. More specifically, the task of interpreting the classics, such as Hobbes� Leviathan, might call for other methodological approaches. For an excellent collection of essays on this, see D. Leopold and M. Stears (eds), Political Theory: Methods and Approaches (OUP, 2008).
2. UNDERGRADUATE TUTORIALS 2012-2013
a. MichaelmasTerm 2012
- Mill's
Utilitarianism. Faculty reading list here.
- Ethics.
Faculty reading list here.
- Theory
of Politics. Faculty reading list here.
3.
Undergraduate lectures: Mill's Utilitarianism
Examinations Schools, Fridays 12-1.
Please note that in week 4 the lecture will take place on the
Tuesday, noon-1pm.
Handout week 1. Powerpoint slide.
Handout week 2. Powerpoint slide.
Handout week 3. Powerpoint slide.
Handout week 4. Powerpoint slide.
Handout week 5. Powerpoint slide.
Handout week 6-7. Powerpoint slide.
Handout week 8. Powerpoint slide.
4. BPhil CLASS IN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY/PHIL OF LAW 2012-2013
[To be updated in due course]