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Week 1: Authority Seminar leader: Tom Sinclair
Week 2: Nationalism Seminar leader: Michael Prinzing
- Robert Goodin, ‘What is So Special about Our Fellow Countrymen?’, Ethics 98, no. 4 (1988)
- Jeff McMahan, ‘The Limits of National Partiality’, in The Morality of Nationalism, ed. Robert McKim & Jeff McMahan (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997). Also available from McMahan's website.
- Stephen Nathanson, ‘Nationalism and The Limits of Global Humanism’, in The Morality of Nationalism, ed. Robert McKim & Jeff McMahan (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997)
- David Miller, ‘Reasonable Partiality Towards Compatriots’, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 8, no. 1/2 (2005)
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Week 3: The ethics of the market Seminar leader: Joe Bowen
- Elizabeth Anderson, ‘The Ethical Limits of the Market’, Economics and Philosophy 6, no. 2 (1990)
- Debra Satz, Why Some Things Should Not Be For Sale: The Moral Limits of Markets (Oxford University Press, 2010), chapter 6 (‘Markets in Women's Sexual Labour’)
- Michael Sandel, ‘What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets’, The Tanner Lectures in Human Values (1998)
- Christopher Freiman, ‘Vote Markets’, Australasian Journal of Philosophy 92, no. 4 (2014)
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Week 4: Social meaning in pluralistic accounts of distributive justice Seminar leader: Samuel Bruce
- Michael Walzer, Spheres of Justice: A Defense of Pluralism and Equality (Basic Books, 1983), chapters 1 (‘Complex Equality’) and 6 (‘Money and Commodities’)
- David Miller and Michael Walzer (eds), Pluralism, Justice, and Equality (Oxford University Press, 1995), ‘Introduction’ and any one of the chapters by Amy Gutmann (‘Justice Across the Spheres’), Jeremy Waldron (‘Money and Complex Equality’), and Judith Andre (‘Blocked Exchanges: A Taxonomy’)
- Ronald Dworkin, ‘To Each his Own’, in The New York Review of Books (April 14, 1983). The subsequent exchange between Walzer and Dworkin is also of interest.
- Seumas Miller, ‘Social Institutions’, in Edward Zalta (ed.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2014 Edition), Introduction and sections 1–3
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Week 5: Ideal and non-ideal theory Seminar leader: Maxime Lepoutre
- Charles Mills, ‘“Ideal Theory” as Ideology’, Hypatia 20, no. 3 (2005)
- Amartya Sen, The Idea of Justice (Penguin, 2009), pp. 95–106
- Zofia Stemplowska, ‘What's Ideal About Ideal Theory?’, Social Theory and Practice 34, no. 3 (2008)
- Laura Valentini, ‘On the Apparent Paradox of Ideal Theory’, The Journal of Political Philosophy 17, no. 3 (2009)
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Week 6: Political obligation Seminar leader: Tanya Goodchild
- William Edmundson, ‘The Virtue of Law-Abidance’, Philosophers' Imprint 6, no. 4 (2006)
- George Klosko, ‘Multiple Principles of Political Obligation’, Political Theory 32, no. 6 (2004)
- Bas van der Vossen, ‘Associative Political Obligations’, Philosophy Compass 6, no. 7 (2011)
- Christopher Heath Wellman, ‘Toward a Liberal Theory of Political Obligation’, Ethics 111, no. 4 (2001)
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Week 7: Egalitarianism Seminar leader: Henry Phipps
- Elizabeth Anderson, ‘What is the Point of Equality?’, Ethics 109, no. 2 (1999)
- Richard Arneson, ‘Luck Egalitarianism Interpreted and Defended’, Philosophical Topics 32, no. 1/2 (2004)
- Zofia Stemplowska, ‘Making Justice Sensitive to Responsibility’, Political Studies 57, no. 2 (2009)
- Serena Olsaretti, ‘Responsibility and the Consequences of Choice’, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 109, no. 1, part 2 (2009)
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Week 8: Rights Seminar leader: Luke Davies
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