PHIL 728

Political Philosophy 1

Please note: this is archived course information from 2014 for PHIL 728.

Description

Current Topics Concerning Global Justice: Special Focus on Responsibility and Global Justice
In this course we begin with a survey of some current debates concerning matters of global justice to orient us before focusing on particular questions in more depth.  In 2014 we focus on issues concerning global justice and responsibility. We analyse questions such as the following: What are our global distributive justice responsibilities and what ought we to do to discharge these? What responsibilities do we have in relation to remedying global injustice? Do different states, nations, and individuals have importantly different remedial responsibilities? If so, how are these to be allocated?

Availability 2014

Semester 1

Lecturer(s)

Coordinator(s) Professor Gillian Brock

Reading/Texts

A full list of readings will be made available at the start of the course.

Two key texts for the course are:
David Miller, National Responsibility and Global Justice (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007)
Thomas Pogge, World Poverty and Human Rights, Second Edition (Cambridge: Polity, 2008)

Those who have not done PHIL 310 are strongly encouraged to read Gillian Brock, Global Justice: A Cosmopolitan Account (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009) before the start of the course.

Assessment

Points

PHIL 728: 15 points

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