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am Lecturer in Philosophy at University College, Oxford University. I received
my D.Phil (PhD) in Philosophy from Oxford
University in 2012. My research
is focused on ethics and political philosophy. |
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Below is a list of the courses I teach along with some resources for each. Many articles and texts are available online. Both electronic versions and hard-copies can be found through SOLO. Many of the articles can also be found directly through JSTOR. If your are not connected from within the Oxford University network, you will have to use the University's VPN service to access some of these resources. I you are looking for a general philosophical reference work I can recommend the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. General Philosophy (Mods/Prelims) The faculty provides a reading list through WebLearn. Lectures 2012/13: Michaelmas Term: Wednesdays, 12:00, Schools Hilary Term: Fridays, 12:00, Schools J.S. Mill's Utilitarianism (Mods/Prelims) My Reading lists for tutorials The faculty also provides a more expansive reading list through WebLearn. Prof Cecile Fabre will be offering 8 Lectures on Moral Philosophy in Michaelmas Term 2012. Dr Harcourt will be offering a further 8 Lectures in Hilary Term 2013. Please see the Faculty's lecture lists for further information. The primary text for this course is J.S. Mill's Utilitarianism, of which there is many editions available. Roger Crisp's edited edition (OUP 1998) includes an overview and detailed notes that you might find helpful. For a good introduction to Mill's work and to utilitarianism as a moral theory I recommend Roger Crisp's On Utilitarianism (Routledge 1997). [online text] J.S. Mill's own Autobiography also paints a vivid picture of a remarkable life. Theory of Politics (FHS) My Reading list for tutorials. The faculty also provides a more expansive reading list through WebLearn. There are 8 Lectures on the Theory of Politics in Michaelmas Term 2012, and a further 8 Lectures in Hilary Term 2013. Please see the Faculty's lecture lists for further information. To get a sense of where some of the main debates in the theory of politics are located, and how political theory is "done," you might read G.A. Cohen's How to do Political Philosophy? which can be found in G.A. Cohen (ed. M. Otsuka), On the Currency of Egalitarian Justice and Other Essays in Political Philosophy (Princeton University Press 2010). Good general introductions to the theory of politics are: Kymlicka, Will, Contemporary Political Philosophy: An Introduction (OUP, 2nd revised edn. 2001) Wolff, Jonathan, An Introduction to Political Philosophy (OUP, 2nd revised edn. 2006) Books 1 and 2 of Plato's Republic Ethics (FHS) My Reading list for tutorials. There are 8 Lectures on Metaethics in Michaelmas Term 2012, and a further 8 Lectures on Normative Theory in Hilary Term 2013. Please see the Faculty's lecture lists for further information. Good general introductions are: S. Darwall, Philosophical Ethics (Westview, 1998) S. Scheffler (ed.), Consequentialism and Its Critics (Oxford: OUP, 1988), A. Miller Contemporary Metaethics, chapter 1. |