PPR463: Issues in Practical Philosophy

Objectives

This module considers a selection of major and advanced-level issues in practical philosophy - that is, political, legal, moral and applied philosophy - on which staff in PPR have specific research expertise. Particular topics that may be covered in detail include: theories of justice; children's rights; moral motivation; well-being; the nature of political action; democratic theories; cosmopolitanism and nationalism; punishment and responsibility; contemporary Kantian practical philosophy.

Selected Bibliography

Chandran Kukathas & Philip Pettit (eds) John Rawls' "Theory of Justice" and Its Critics (Polity Press, Cambridge, 1990)

Arthur Ripstein, Equality, Responsibility, and the Law (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1998)

David Held Cosmopolitanism (Polity Press, Cambridge, 2010)

Thomas E. Hill Jr. Human Welfare and Moral Worth: Kantian Perspectives (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2002)

David Archard Children Rights & Childhood, 2nd edition (Routledge, London, 2004)

Stephen Darwall The Second-Person Standpoint: Morality, Respect and Accountability (Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA, 2006)

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