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Morality and Value 2018/19 Reading List This reading list contains all of the required readings for the course. For many topics it also includes a list of suggested supplementary readings. Further supplementary readings may be recommended by the lecturers at a later date.

General Advice Encyclopedias are a very good source of extra reading ideas. Avoid Wikipedia (it is often inaccurate on philosophy) but there are a couple of good internet encyclopedias that can be useful: The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP) The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (IEP) *Required Readings are marked by asterisk* Sometimes supplementary readings follow the required readings for that lecture. Sometimes the supplementary readings for that whole week are listed together.

Week 1. Applied Ethics. Prof Mike Ridge Lecture 2: Obligations to Distant People *Peter Singer, “Famine, Affluence and Morality.” Philosophy and Public Affairs. 1972: 229-243. http://personal.lse.ac.uk/robert49/teaching/mm/articles/Singer _1972Famine.pdf Lecture 3: Veganism *Tristram McPherson, “Why I am Vegan (and you should be one too),” in Philosophy Comes to Dinner. Routledge. pp. 7391. Also available here in penultimate form: https://philpapers.org/archive/MCPWIA-3.pdf

Week 2. Applied Ethics. Morality and Markets. 1

Dr Debbie Roberts Lecture 1: Morality and Markets *Debra Satz, Why Some Things Should Not be For Sale: The Moral Limits of Markets, Oxford University Press, 2010 [Henceforth MLM] Ch 1 Ethics, economics, and markets: an interview with Debra Satz https://www.ejpe.org/journal/article/view/40 Michael Sandel, “How Markets Crowd Out Morals,” Boston Review, May/June 2012 http://bostonreview.net/forum-sandelmarkets-morals http://marginalrevolution.com/?s=markets+in+everything Lisa Herzog, "Markets", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2017 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = . Satz, MLM, chapter 2. Lecture 2: Markets in Women’s Reproductive Labour *Satz, MLM, Ch 5 Satz, MLM, Ch 4 Elizabeth Anderson, “Is Women’s Labor a Commodity?” Philosophy and Public Affairs 19 (1):71-92 (1990) Hugh V. McLachlan & J. K. Swales Exploitation and Commercial Surrogate Motherhood Human Reproduction and Genetic Ethics 7 (1):8--14 (2001) Lecture 3: Ethical Issues in the Supply and Demand of Human Kidneys *Satz, MLM, Ch 9 Satz, MLM, Ch 4 Arrow, K., 1972, “Gifts and Exchanges”, Philosophy and Public Affairs, 1: 343–362. Fabre, C., 2006, Whose Body is it Anyway? Justice and the Integrity of the Person, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Wilkinson, Stephen, "The Sale of Human Organs", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2016 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL =

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. Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

Week 3. Utilitarianism. Dr Guy Fletcher & Prof Mike Ridge Lecture 1: *Mill, J. S. Utilitarianism, chapters 1 & 2. http://www.utilitarianism.com/mill1.htm Lecture 2: *Driver, J. ‘Contemporary Consequentialism’ in Ethics the Fundamentals (Blackwell, 2007) *Internet Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, ‘Consequentialism’, (section 3 only) http://www.iep.utm.edu/conseque/#H3 ‘The Repugnant conclusion’ in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy http:// plato.stanford.edu/entries/repugnant-conclusion/ Hooker, B. ‘Rule Consequentialism’ (Shafer-Landau Anthology’ Hooker, B. 'Rule Consequentialism’ in the SEP http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consequentialism-rule Lecture 3: *§4 (‘Which consequences...’) of ‘Consequentialism’ in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consequentialism/ *Driver, J. ‘Contemporary Consequentialism’ in Ethics the Fundamentals (Blackwell, 2007)

Week 4. Kant. Prof Mike Ridge Lecture 1: Immanuel Kant’s Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals. http://www.inp.uw.edu.pl/mdsie/Political_Thought/Kant%20%20groundwork%20for%20the%20metaphysics%20of %20morals%20with%20essays.pdf

Lecture 2:

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Immanuel Kant’s Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals http://www.inp.uw.edu.pl/mdsie/Political_Thought/Kant%20%20groundwork%20for%20the%20metaphysics%20of %20morals%20with%20essays.pdf Lecture 3: Immanuel Kant’s Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals http://www.inp.uw.edu.pl/mdsie/Political_Thought/Kant%20%20groundwork%20for%20the%20metaphysics%20of %20morals%20with%20essays.pdf

Week 5. Distributive

Justice. Dr Maggie O’Brien.

Lecture 1: *John Rawls, A Theory of Justice: Justice as Fairness, pp. 3-19 A Theory of Justice (HUP 1999) * these pages for the 1999 revised edition

Lecture 2: *John Rawls, A Theory of Justice: The Principles of Justice, pp.52-56; The Original Position pp.118-130

Lecture 3: *John Rawls, A Theory of Justice: The Principles of Justice, pp.52-56; The Original Position pp.118-130 Suggested Supplementary Readings for Week 5 Robert Nozick Anarchy, State and Utopia (Basic Books 1974) Chapter 7: Distributive Justice Susan Okin, Justice Gender and the Family, Chapter 5: Justice for Whom Sen, A ‘What Do We Want from a Theory of Justice?’ The Journal of Philosophy

Tommie Shelby (2007), Justice, Deviance, and the Dark Ghetto. Philosophy and Public Affairs March 2007, Vol.35(2), pp.126-160

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Week 6. Political Philosophy. Dr Debbie Roberts & Dr Maggie O’Brien Lecture 1: Hate Speech * Caroline West (2012) ‘Words That Silence? Freedom of Expression and Racist Hate Speech’ in Maitra, I. & McGowan, M. K. (eds.), Speech and Harm:

Controversies over Free Speech (Oxford: OUP). [Available online through the university library website] Mill, J.S., 1978. On Liberty, Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing. van Mill, David, "Freedom of Speech", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2018 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = . https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06s8bq4

Lecture 2: Anger and Politics *Martha Nussbaum - Martha Nussbaum on Anger and Revolutionary Justice (online lecture) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=El8Ut3ewuO0 Lecture 3: Anger and Politics *Amia Srinivasa, 'Would Politics Be Better Off Without Anger?" The Nation (Nov 30, 2016) https://www.thenation.com/article/a-righteous-fury/ Suggested Supplementary Readings for Lecture’s 17 & 18 Srinivasan, A (2017), The Aptness of Anger. Journal of Political Philosophy Martha Nussbaum Anger and Forgiveness: Resentment, Generosity, and Justice (OUP 2016)

Week 7. Political Obligation. Dr Guy Fletcher. Lecture 1: *Plato, Crito http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/crito.1b.txt *Wolff, R. P. In Defense ofAnarchism, (Chapter 1 only) http://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/robert-paul-wolff-indefense-of-anarchism.pdf Lecture 2: *Hume, D. ‘Of The Original Contract’ 5

http://www.constitution.org/dh/origcont.htm Lecture 3: *Simmons, A. J. ‘The Principle of Fair Play’, Philosophy & Public Affairs, 8 (1979): 307-337. [Reprinted in his Justification and Legitimacy (Cambridge: CUP, 2001).] Suggested Supplementary readings for Week 7 Locke, J. Second Treatise of Government §§95–131 Pitkin, H. ‘Obligation and Consent 1’, The American Political Science Review, 59, (1965), 990-999. Gilbert, M. ‘Group Membership and Political Obligation’, The Monist, 76/1 (1993), 119-131. Hart, H. L. A., ‘Are There Any Natural Rights?’ Philosophical Review, 64, (1955), 175–191. Green, L. ‘Law and Obligations’, in Coleman, J. & Shapiro, S. (eds.) The Oxford handbook of jurisprudence and philosophy of law (Oxford: OUP, 2002).

Week 8. Civil Disobedience. Dr Maggie O’Brien. Lecture 1: *John Rawls, A Theory of Justice: Definition and Justification of Civil Disobedience pp.319-323, pp.326-331, pp.335-343 Lecture 2: *Kimberley Brownlee, 2007. ‘The Communicative Aspects of Civil Disobedience and Lawful Punishment,’ Criminal Law and Philosophy, 1 (2): 179–192.

Lecture 3: *Martin Luther King, “Letter from Birmingham Jail” http://okra.stanford.edu/transcription/document_images/undec ided/630416-019.pdf and *Emmeline Pankhurst, “Freedom or Death” https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2007/apr/27/greats peeches Suggested Supplementary Readings for Week 8 Brownlee 2004. ‘Features of a Paradigm Case of Civil Disobedience,’ in Res Publica, 10 (4): 337–351

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Green, Leslie, 2003. ‘Civil Disobedience and Academic Freedom,’ in Osgoode Hall Law Journal, 41 (2–3): 381–405. Lyons, David, 1998. ‘Moral Judgment, Historical Reality, and Civil Disobedience,’ in Philosophy and Public Affairs, 27 (1): 31–49.

Week 9. Well-Being. Dr Guy Fletcher. Lecture 1: *Gregory, A. ‘Hedonism’ in Fletcher, G. The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Well-Being (Routledge, 2015). Lecture 2: *Heathwood, C. ‘Desire-fulfillment theory’ in Fletcher, G. The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Well-Being (Routledge, 2015) Lecture 3: *Fletcher, G. ‘Objective List Theories’ in Fletcher, G. The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Well-Being (Routledge, 2015) Suggested Supplementary Readings for Week 9 Fletcher, G. The Philosophy of Well-Being: an Introduction (Routledge, 2016) Baber, H. E. ‘Adaptive Preference’, Social Theory and Practice 33/1, (2007), 105-126. Bradford, G. ‘Perfectionism’ in Fletcher, G. The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Well-Being (Routledge, 2015) ‘Hedonism’ in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Week 10. New Topics. Dr Guy Fletcher, Dr Debbie Roberts & Prof Mike Ridge Lecture 1: Disability

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*Schroeder, S. Andrew (2016). ‘Health, Disability, and WellBeing’ in Fletcher, G. (ed.), Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Well-Being. Routledge. Barnes, Elizabeth (2014). Valuing Disability, Causing Disability. Ethics 125(1): 88-113. Barnes, Elizabeth (2016). The Minority Body: A Theory of Disability. Oxford University Press. Schroeder, S. Andrew (forthcoming). Wellbeing, Opportunity, and Selecting for Disability. Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy. Lecture 2: Driverless Cars *Sven Nyholm, ‘The ethics of crashes with self‐driving cars: A roadmap, I.’ Philosophy Compass 2018;e12507. https://doiorg.ezproxy.is.ed.ac.uk/10.1111/phc3.12507 *Sven Nyholm, ‘The ethics of crashes with self‐driving cars: A roadmap, II.’ Philosophy Compass2018; e12506. https://doiorg.ezproxy.is.ed.ac.uk/10.1111/phc3.12506 Hevelke, A., & Nida‐Rümelin, J. (2015). Responsibility for crashes of autonomous vehicles: An ethical analysis. Science and Engineering Ethics, 21, 619–630. Nyholm, S., & Smids, J. (2016). The ethics of accident‐ algorithms for self‐driving cars: An applied trolley problem? Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 19(5), 1275– 1289. The “Moral Machine” Website: http://moralmachine.mit.edu/ The Ethical Dilemma of Self‐Driving Cars, by Patrick Lin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixIoDYVfKA0 Ethics, Technology and Engineering: The Ethics of Automated Driving https://www.coursera.org/learn/ethics‐technology‐ engineering/lecture/bW4lz/the‐ethics‐of‐automated‐driving‐ part‐1 https://www.coursera.org/learn/ethics‐technology‐ engineering/lecture/MUatI/the‐ethics‐of‐automated‐driving‐ part‐2 https://www.coursera.org/learn/ethics‐technology‐ engineering/lecture/Snsau/the‐ethics‐of‐automated‐driving‐ part‐3 8

Lecture 3: Voting *Michael Ridge, “Voting For Less Than the Best,” on LEARN. *Paul Meehl, “The Selfish Voter Paradox and the Thrown-Away Vote Argument,” American Political Science Review, 1977 (volume 71), pp. 11-30

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