Courses/Subjects in Ethics, Human Rights & Institutions Stream
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International Activities at the Philosophy Students’ OrganisationThe following courses are provisional and may be subject to change:
LECTURE COURSES
Seminar on Social Institutions
Ethics
Metaethical Expressivism
Human Rights - Philosophy and Institutions
Seminar 1
Seminar 2
Collective Moral Responsibility
Rationality, Ethics, and the History of Philosophy: A Graduate Seminar on Alasdair MacIntyre
Seminar on Political Philosophy
Philosophy of Emotions
Freedom: Philosophy, Politics, Rhetoric
READING COURSESEthics
Political Philosophy
Philosophy of the Social Sciences
Specialisation Studies/Normative Ethics
Specialisation Studies/ Metaethics
Specialisation Studies/ Applied Ethics
Specialisation Studies/ Political Philosophy
Specialisation Studies/ Philosophy of Law
Specialisation Studies/ Philosophy of the Social Sciences
Seminar 1
Seminar 2Other available courses/subjects to make up the balance of your full-time load may be found on the University's website.
LECTURE COURSES Course/Subject Name: Seminar on Social Institutions Course/Subject id: Kf3301 Level: Advanced and post-graduate Pre-requisites: Basic and Intermediate Studies Start Date: 12 March, 2008 End Date: 23 April, 2008 Contact Hours: 28 hours total ECTS Weighting: Lecture course + final examination or an essay (1 500 words) 4 ECTS
A student can gain more ECTS by writing a longer essay in accordance with the instructions.Course/Subject Outline: A central part of the social world is an artifact, viz. a product of collective human activities, and is thus institutional in a broad sense. What does this involve from a conceptual and metaphysical point of view? In this seminar I will give some lectures in which this question will be answered in a terms of an account based on collective acceptance. The main focus will be on social institutions. I will also discuss Searle’s by now famous account of social institutions. The rest of the seminar will consist of the participants’ presentations of recent papers by other philosophers on the topic of the seminar.
Assessment: Active participation in seminar + a final examination or/and an essay Reading: Recommended literature:
Searle, J., 1995, The Construction of Social Reality, The Penguin Press, 1995
Koepsell, D. and Moss, L., 2003, John Searle’s Ideas about Social Reality, Blackwell
Tuomela, R., 2002, The Philosophy of Social Practices: A Collective Acceptance View, Cambridge University Press
Tuomela, R., 2005, Philosophy of Sociality: The Shared Point of View, Oxford University PressCourse/Subject Name: Ethics Course/Subject id: Kf230 Level: Intermediate Pre-requisites: Basic Studies Start Date: Period III, exact date TBA End Date: TBA Contact Hours: 24 hours total ECTS Weighting: 5 to 10 Course/Subject Outline: The aim of this advanced course is to present the
principal concepts, problems, and traditions in meta- and normative ethics, as well as value and norm theories and their practical applications.Assessment: Lecture course and examination with additional
readings (TBA)Reading: TBA (5 articles) Course/Subject Name: Metaethical Expressivism Course/Subject id: Kf230 Level: Intermediate Pre-requisites: Basic Studies Start Date: 10 March End Date: 4 May Contact Hours: 24 hours total ECTS Weighting: 5 to 10 Course/Subject Outline: In this course we’ll explore the expressivist tradition in metaethics, with emphasis on the contemporary discussions. The focus will be on specific arguments for and against expressivism, but at the same time an interesting perspective on the development of a philosophical research program – from the radical emotivism of A. J. Ayer to the more mature expressivism of Simon Blackburn, Allan Gibbard, Michael Ridge, and others – hopefully will unfold. The topics to be discussed include (a) the Frege-Geach problem (in its different forms) and the various kinds of expressivist responses to the problem, (b) the question of the nature of the supervenience of the normative on the descriptive (or on the natural), and the explanatory challenges that this issue raises in metaethics, (c) the question of whether the expressivists have “attitude problems” – difficulties with providing an acceptable account of the mental states expressed by normative judgments, (d) the impact of the idea that the concepts of intentional states such as beliefs and desires are normative concepts on expressivism, (e) the connection (or rather lack of it) between expressivism and relativism, (f) the “problem of creeping minimalism”, and thus the question of how to understand the basic expressivist idea, in the first place. Although the expressivist tradition provides the perspective from which these issues are being examined, many of the central debates in contemporary metaethics will thus receive attention. Consequently, ‘contemporary metaethics’ would also be a fitting name for the class.
Assessment: For each class meeting, some compulsory as well as some optional readings will be assigned. The students will be assigned some small-scale papers during the class, and they can also complement their studies in the class by writing an essay (around 6500 words) on one of the topics to be discussed.
Reading: TBA Course/Subject Name: Human Rights - Philosophy and Institutions Course/Subject id: Kf270 Level: Intermediate Pre-requisites: Basic Studies Start Date: 10 March End Date: 4 May Contact Hours: 20 hours total ECTS Weighting: Participation 2 and essay 2 to 4 Course/Subject Outline: This course covers the philosophical, theoretical and cultural foundations of human rights as well as wider political and legal international perspectives and different generations of human rights. The lectures critically discuss the liberal theories of human rights and their critics both historically and in the present time. The course examines some of the philosophical foundations of modern notions of rights by looking specifically at the Natural Rights theorists of the seventeenth century. We will discuss various conceptions within this tradition, and examine in more detail what is understood by the notions “State of Nature”, “Natural Law” and “Natural Rights” and "the Social Contract" and their Utilitarian and Marxist critique. We will be assessing the validity of various philosophical and cultural justifications for and critique of human rights. We will also question how the philosophical, political and cultural disputes over the origins of human rights are related to the current issues of global justice. In relation to this Asian, African and Islamic critiques of and approaches to human rights will be explored as well as the rights of key groups of minorities, women and children. Main international human rights instruments will be also introduced and their prospects and problems discussed.
MODULE SUMMARY:
Topic 1 Philosophical foundations of Human Rights
Topic 2 Utilitarian critique of human rights
Topic 3 Marxist critique of human rights
Topic 4 Three generations of human rights thinking
Topic 5 Cultural relativism and the Asian critique of human rightsTopic 6 African foundations for human rights
Topic 7 Islamic foundations for human rights
Topic 8 The rights of minorities as human rights
Topic 9 Women's rights
Topic 10 Main human rights institutionsAssessment: Participation in discussion during the lectures and essay (2500-4500 words). Reading: TBA Course/Subject Name: Seminar 1 Course/Subject id: Kf280 Level: Intermediate Studies Pre-requisites: Basic Studies Start Date: 17 January End Date: 3 May Contact Hours: 24 hours total ECTS Weighting: 4 Course/Subject Outline: The aim of the seminar is to familiarize the student with the practises of scientific discussion and philosophical writing. The work undertaken in Seminar I is intended to support the writing of the Bachelor’s thesis. Assessment: Active participation in seminar work during the term. Each student writes a seminar essay (3500-5000 words) and acts as an opponent. Reading: Course/Subject Name: Seminar 2 Course/Subject id: Kf340 Level: Advanced and postgraduate Pre-requisites: Basic and Intermediate Studies Start Date: 16 January End Date: 5 May Contact Hours: 24 hours total ECTS Weighting: 5 Course/Subject Outline: The aim of the seminar is to familiarize the student with the practices of scientific discussion and philosophical writing. The work undertaken in advanced seminars is intended to support the writing of the Master’s thesis. Assessment: Active participation in seminar work during the term. Each student writes a seminar essay (5000 -6000 words) and acts as an opponent. Reading: Course/Subject Name: Collective Moral Responsibility Course/Subject id: Kf230, Kf270 Level: Intermediate Pre-requisites: Basic Studies Start Date: 10 March End Date: 4 May Contact Hours: 18 hours total ECTS Weighting: 4 to 6; participation 2 + essay 2 to 4 Course/Subject Outline: There is a growing interest in the topic of collective responsibility among moral philosophers, philosophers of action and social action, and philosophers of the social sciences more generally. This interest is part of the more general trend of broadening the scope of morality to collectivities, groups, and corporate agents. Until lately almost all Western moral philosophers have approached the subject of responsibility armed with the assumption that the only interesting and important things to be said on that topic must be about individual human beings. During the last three or four decades, philosophers of the social sciences, especially of social action, have developed theories about collective and social action and conceptual tools to deal with the problems of collective and corporate agency.
This course introduces students to recent philosophical literature on collective moral responsibility. The focus will be on arguments for and against positions taken in answering the following questions: Can groups or collectives, as opposed to individuals, properly be assigned moral responsibility? Is there a plausible account of collective responsibility which does not make collective responsibility reducible to shared individual moral responsibility? Is there a plausible sense of collective responsibility that cannot be expressed exhaustively by speaking of merely individual responsibilities? To what kinds of groups can we correctly ascribe moral responsibility? Is it only organized collectives with an internal decision structure that can bear moral responsibility? Are there conditions under which moral responsibility can be ascribed also to non-organized groups or “random collections”? Can moral responsibility be properly ascribed to collectives as such? Or is collective responsibility according to the most plausible account responsibility ascribed collectively to individuals? Is collective responsibility always distributive? How should the agents be related to one another in acting to be correctly held collectively responsible for the action or the outcome of the action? How should the agents and their actions be related to the outcome of the action they are held collectively responsible for? Should every agent held collectively responsible contribute causally to the harm they are held responsible for?Assessment: Participation in discussion during the lectures and essay (2500-4500 words). Reading: Recommended background reading:
Larry May and Stacey Hoffman (Eds.): Collective Responsibility: Five Decades of Debate in Theoretical and Applied Ethics, Rowman &Littlefield, 1991.
Further readings TBA as soon as the permissions from authors of unpublished manuscripts are receivedCourse/Subject Name: Rationality, Ethics, and the History of Philosophy: A Graduate Seminar on Alasdair MacIntyre Course/Subject id: Kf230 (Supp) Level: Advanced undergraduate and graduate Pre-requisites: Basic and Intermediate Studies Start Date: 8 September End Date: 12 December Contact Hours: 20 hours total ECTS Weighting: 3
A student can gain more ECTS by writing a longer essay in accordance with the instructions.Course/Subject Outline: This course is a five-day intensive seminar on the work of Alasdair MacIntyre. We will focus on
his most influential books - After Virtue, Whose Justice? Which Rationality?, and Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry – to evaluate the place of history in ethics, the role of the virtues in moral adjudication, and the nature of rationality. We will ask, as he does in the beginning of After
Virtue, "Was twentieth-century ethics in a crisis?", and then examine his answer and his solutions. We will examine his assertions that human rationality is more fluid in nature than is usually acknowledged, that moral claims are only possible within the confines of a tradition, and that even modes of academic presentation are bound-up in the presumptions of a philosopher's school of thought. In addition to the ethical questions, this seminar will give us the opportunity to examine the way that the history of philosophy is thought about and taught. Is there an over-arching narrative to the progression of philosophy, and if so, are there more than one? Can one focus, as MacIntyre does, on the "broad strokes," or is most philosophical work the product of detailed textual analysis as is usually supposed? Finally, is modern liberalism bankrupt, as MacIntyre seems to suggest, or is he simply postulating a different version of the same pluralisms.Assessment: Active participation in seminar + a final examination or/and a 1,500 word essay
Reading: Students will be expected to have read MacIntyre's A Short History of Ethics for the first class. Course/Subject Name: Philosophy of Emotions Course/Subject id: Kf330 Level: Advanced undergraduate and graduate Pre-requisites: Basic and Intermediate Studies Start Date: 8 September End Date: 12 December Contact Hours: 28 hours total ECTS Weighting: 3
A student can gain more ECTS by writing a longer essay in accordance with the instructions.Course/Subject Outline: The research of emotions has developed into one of the most important areas of interdisciplinary scholarship in the recent decades. Along with empirical scientists, philosophers have taken a een interest in this historically neglected topic. This course focuses on the contemporary philosophy of emotion, its main problems and theoretical approaches. The course presents an overview of the development of emotion research in the 20th and early 21st century, starting from William James’ influential feeling theory of emotions, ranging through the rise of cognitive theories from the 1960's onwards until the recent challenges to cognitivism that have brought fundamental questions about the nature of emotions back to the fore. The focus will be on philosophical theories but important contributions of scientific emotion research will be highlighted as well. These include the debate between Robert Zajonc and Richard Lazarus about the primacy
of affect or cognition in emotion, Joseph LeDoux’s and Antonio Damasio’s findings about the neurophysiology of emotion, and the research on emotional labor initiated by Arlie Hochschild. Among the themes that will be discussed are the distinction between emotions and other affective states, the question of basic emotions, the intentionality of emotions, the relation of cognition and feeling in emotion, the rationality of emotions, emotional authenticity, the role emotions in ethics, emotions and action, emotions and culture, the expression of emotions, and our responsibility for our emotions. The course suits both advanced undergraduate students and graduate students.Assessment: Active participation in lecture + a final examination or/and a 1,500 word essay Reading: Course/Subject Name: Freedom: Philosophy, Politics, Rhetoric
Course/Subject id: Kf330e Level: Advanced undergraduate and graduate Pre-requisites: Basic and Intermediate Studies Start Date: 8 September End Date: 12 December Contact Hours: 28 hours total ECTS Weighting: 3
A student can gain more ECTS by writing a longer essay in accordance with the instructions.Course/Subject Outline: The course offers an introduction to different philosophical conceptions of freedom and a philosophical analysis of current political uses of the term by different political actors. It offers
close readings of philosophical accounts of freedom from the Enlightenment through mid-20th century to contemporary thinkers (Benjamin Constant, J.S. Mill, Isaiah Berlin, Hannah Arendt, Judith Skhlar, Jeremy Waldron, Stephen Holmes and others), discussions on different meanings and aspects of freedom (positive and negative, freedom "to" and freedom "from", freedom and the will; political, psychological, civil and intellectual freedom) and analysis of contradictory, even opposite claims made in political rhetoric in the name of freedom and liberation. We also discuss the reasons for the declining popularity of the terms "freedom" and "liberty" in recent political theory, while they are still employed in political speeches and manifests. In addition to academic texts from philosophers and political theorists, the course materials include speeches and
interviews by famous (and infamous) political figures around the world.Assessment: Active participation in lecture + a final examination or/and a 1,500 word essay
Reading: Course/Subject Name: Seminar on Political Philosophy
Course/Subject id: Kf330e Level: Advanced undergraduate and graduate Pre-requisites: Basic and Intermediate Studies Start Date: 8 September End Date: 12 December Contact Hours: 28 hours total ECTS Weighting: 3
A student can gain more ECTS by writing a longer essay in accordance with the instructions.Course/Subject Outline: tba Assessment: Active participation in seminar + a final examination or/and a 1,500 word essay Reading: READING COURSES Course/Subject Name: Ethics Course/Subject id: Kf230 Level: Intermediate studies Pre-requisites: Study units Kf110, Kf120 and Kf130 ECTS Weighting: 5-10 Course/Subject Outline: The aim is to present the principal concepts, problems and traditions in normative ethics, as well as value and norm theories and their practical applications. Assessment: A written report on a theme using sources agreed with the supervisor, or a book examination in a faculty examination. Reading: Compulsory part, 5 ECTS:
Complete both a and b
a) Timmons, M.: Moral Theory
b) Darwall, S.: Philosophical EthicsSupplementary part:
The compulsory part can be supplemented by one or more of the following c-j:
c) Blackburn, S.: Ruling Passions (2 ECTS)
d) Hooker, B.: Ideal Code, Real World
e) Korsgaard, C.: The Sources of Normativity (2 ECTS)
f) MacIntyre, A.: After Virtue (2 s ECTS)
g) Miller, A.: An Introduction to Contemporary Metaethics (2 ECTS)
h) Smith, M.: The Moral Problem (2 ECTS)
i) Rehg, W.: Insight and Solidarity (2 ECTS)
j) Madison, G. & Fairbarn, M.: The Ethics of Postmodernity: Current Trends in Continental Thought (2 ECTS)Course/Subject Name: Political Philosophy Course/Subject id: Kf240 Level: Intermediate studies Pr-requisites: Study units Kf110, Kf120 and Kf130 ECTS Weighting: 5-10 Course/Subject Outline: The principal concepts, central traditions of thought and their main representatives, ideologies and argumentation in political philosophy are examined in the study unit.
Assessment: A written report on a theme using sources agreed with the supervisor, or a book examination in a faculty examination.Assessment: Reading: Compulsory part, 5 ECTS:
a) Kymlicka W: Contemporary political philosophy: An introduction (latest edition)Supplementary part:
In addition of a), one or more of the following books b)-i):
b) Feinberg J.: Harm to Others (3 ECTS)
c) Hoy T. C. & McCarthy T.: Critical Theory (2 ECTS)
d) Ingram, D. (ed.): The Political (2 ECTS)
e) Held, D.: Models of Democracy (2 ECTS)
f) Kymlicka, W.: Politics and the Vernacular. Nationalism, Multiculturalism and Citizenship. (2 ECTS)
g) MacIntyre A.: Whose Justice- Which Rationality- (2 ECTS)
h) Rawls J.: Theory of Justice tai Rawls J.: Political Liberalism (2 ECTS)
i) Conway D.: Classical Liberalism. The Unvanquished Ideal (2 ECTS)Course/Subject Name: Philosophy of the Social Sciences Course/Subject id: Kf270 Level: Intermediate studies Pre-requistes: Study units Kf110, Kf130 and Kf140 ECTS Weighting: 5-10 Course/Subject Outline: The study unit concentrates on the nature of human action and on the formation of concepts and theories in social sciences. Assessment: A written report on a theme using sources agreed with the supervisor, or a book examination in a faculty examination. Reading: Compulsory part, complete both a and b (please, negotiate with the examinator about an alternative book in English to b):
a) Kincaid, H.: Philosophical Foundations of the Social Sciences (2 ECTS)
b) Kiikeri, M. ja Ylikoski, P.: Tiede tutkimuskohteena: filosofinen johdatus tieteentutkimukseen (1 ECTS)With the compulsory book, complete at least one of the following options c)-k):
c) Gilbert, M.: On Social Facts (3 s ECTS)
d) Henderson, D.: Interpretation and Explanation in the Human Science (3 ECTS)
e) Mele, A.: The Philosophy of Action (2 ECTS)
f) Pettit, P.: The Common Mind, ss. 1-283 (3 ECTS)
g) Searle, J.: The Construction of Social Reality (2 ECTS)
h) Audi, R.: The Architecture of Reason: The Structure and Substance of Rationality (2 ECTS)
i) Laland, K. ja Brown, G.: Sense and Nonsense: Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Behavior (2 ECTS)
j) Giere, R.N.: Explaining Science (2 ECTS)
k) Bernstein R. J.: Beyond Objectivism and Relativism (2 ECTS)Course/Subject Name: Specialisation Studies/Normative Ethics Course/Subject id: Kf330a Level: Advanced Studies ECTS Weighting: as agreed Course/Subject Outline: This study unit will involve a close study and careful appraisal of the area of specialisation chosen. Students are encouraged to discuss their own topics of interest with their supervisors and to suggest other books in addition to those recommended. Assessment: Lecture courses with examinations, and/or a written report on a theme using sources agreed with the supervisor and/or faculty examination and/or other mode of performance agreed with the supervisor. Reading: Dancy, J.: Ethics without Principles
Scheffler S. (ed.): Consequentialism and Its Critics
Stratton-Lake, P. (ed.): Ethical Intuitionism
Griffin J.: Well-being. Its Meaning, Measurement and Moral Importance
Hare R. M.: Moral Thinking
Herman B.: The Practice of Moral Judgement
Hursthouse, R.: On Virtue Ethics
Korsgaard C. M.: Creating the Kingdom of Ends
Levinas E.: Totalité et infini (English version found)
Parfit, D.: Reasons and Persons
Ricoeur P.: Oneself as Another
Ross W. D.: The Right and the Good
Scanlon T.: What We Owe to Each Other
Scheffler S.: Human Morality
Crisp R. & Slote M. (ed.): Virtue Ethics.
Williams, B.: Ethics and the Limits of PhilosophyCourse/Subject Name: Specialisation Studies/ Metaethics Course/Subject id: Kf330b Level: Advanced Studies Pre-requistes: ECTS Weighting: as agreed Course/Subject Outline: This study unit will involve a close study and careful appraisal of the area of specialisation chosen. Students are encouraged to discuss their own topics of interest with their supervisors and to suggest other books in addition to those recommended. Assessment: Lecture courses with examinations, and/or a written report on a theme using sources agreed with the supervisor and/or faculty examination and/or other mode of performance agreed with the supervisor. Reading: Brink D.: Moral Realism and the Foundations of Ethics
Dancy J.: Moral Reasons
Dennett D.: Elbow Room: Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting
Sayre-McCord G. (ed.): Essays on Moral Realism
Cullity G. & Gaut B. (ed.): Ethics and Practical Reason
Gibbard A.: Wise Choices, Apt Feelings
Gibbard, A.: Thinking how to Live
Mackie J. L.: Ethics, Inventing Right and Wrong
Shafer-Landau, R.: Moral Realism
Timmons, M.: Morality without Foundations
Wallace R. J.: Responsibility and Moral Sentiments
Wiggins D.: Needs, Values, Truth
von Wright G. H.: The Varieties of GoodnessCourse/Subject Name: Specialisation Studies/ Applied Ethics Course/Subject id: Kf330c Level: Advanced Studies Pre-requistes: ECTS Weighting: as agreed Course/Subject Outline: This study unit will involve a close study and careful appraisal of the area of specialisation chosen. Students are encouraged to discuss their own topics of interest with their supervisors and to suggest other books in addition to those recommended. Assessment: Lecture courses with examinations, and/or a written report on a theme using sources agreed with the supervisor and/or faculty examination and/or other mode of performance agreed with the supervisor. Reading: Attfield R.: The Ethics of Environmental Concern
Bell, R.: Understanding African Philosophy
Dyson A. & Harris J. (ed.): Ethics and Biotechnology
Chadwick R. (ed.): Ethics and the Professions
Hargrove E.: Foundations of Environmental Ethics
Harris J. & Holm S. (ed.): The Future of Human Reproduction
Häyry H.: The Limits of Medical Paternalism
Häyry H.: Individual Liberty and Medical Control
Häyry M.: Liberal Utilitarianism and Applied Ethics
Kilpi J.: The Ethics of Bankruptcy
Primoratz I.: Ethics and Sex.Course/Subject Name: Specialisation Studies/ Political Philosophy Course/Subject id: Kf330e Level: Advanced Studies Pre-requistes: ECTS Weighting: as agreed Course/Subject Outline: This study unit will involve a close study and careful appraisal of the area of specialisation chosen. Students are encouraged to discuss their own topics of interest with their supervisors and to suggest other books in addition to those recommended. Assessment: Lecture courses with examinations, and/or a written report on a theme using sources agreed with the supervisor and/or faculty examination and/or other mode of performance agreed with the supervisor. Reading: Airaksinen T.: Ethics of Coercion and Authority: A Philosophical Study of Social Life
Benn S. I. & Peters R. S.: Social Principles and the Democratic State
Binmore K.: Playing Fair
Butler, Judith: Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
Chambers, S. and Kymlicka, W. (ed.): Alternative Conceptions of Civil Society
Frazer, E.: The Problems of Communitarian Politics
Gauthier D.: Morals by Agreement
Gray J.: Beyond the New Right. Markets, Government and the Common Environment
Habermas J.: Inclusion of the Other
Honneth A.: The Struggle for Recognition
Ivison, D.: Postcolonial Liberalism
Kekes, J.: A Case for Conservatism
Kekes J.: Against Liberalism
Nozick R.: Anarchy, State, and Utopia
Pettit P.: Republicanism
Sandel M.: Liberalism and the Limits of Justice
Scanlon T.: What We Owe to Each Other
Sen A. & Williams B. (ed.): Utilitarianism and Beyond
Walzer M.: Spheres of Justice: A Defence of Pluralism and Equality.
Young, I. M.: Inclusion and DemocracyCourse/Subject Name: Specialisation Studies/ Philosophy of Law Course/Subject id: Kf330h Level: Advanced Studies Pre-requistes: ECTS Weighting: As agreed Course/Subject Outline: This study unit will involve a close study and careful appraisal of the area of specialisation chosen. Students are encouraged to discuss their own topics of interest with their supervisors and to suggest other books in addition to those recommended. Assessment: Lecture courses with examinations, and/or a written report on a theme using sources agreed with the supervisor and/or faculty examination and/or other mode of performance agreed with the supervisor. Reading: Bayles M.: Principles of Law
Coleman J.: Risks and Wrongs
Douzinas C.: Postmodern Jurisprudence
Dworkin R.: Law's Empire
Dworkin R.: Taking Rights Seriously
Feinberg J.: The Moral Limits of Criminal Law, I-IV
Habermas J.: Between Facts and Norms
Hart H.L. A.: The Concept of Law
Minkkinen P.: Thinking without Desire. A First Philosophy of Law
Hirvonen A. (ed.): Polycentricity - The Multiple Scenes of Law
Raz J.: The Concept of a Legal System
Duff A. & Garland D. (ed.): A Reader on Punishment
Stone J.: Human Law and Human Justice.
Tebbitt, M.: Philosophy of LawCourse/Subject Name: Specialisation Studies/ Philosophy of the Social Sciences Course/Subject id: Kf330l Level: Pre-requistes: Advanced Studies ECTS Weighting: as agreed Course/Subject Outline: This study unit will involve a close study and careful appraisal of the area of specialisation chosen. Students are encouraged to discuss their own topics of interest with their supervisors and to suggest other books in addition to those recommended.
Assessment: Lecture courses with examinations, and/or a written report on a theme using sources agreed with the supervisor and/or faculty examination and/or other mode of performance agreed with the supervisor.Assessment: Reading: Turner, S. ja Roth, A. (ed.): The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of the Social Sciences
Elster J.: Logic and Society
Elster J. & Hylland A. (ed.): Foundations of Social Choice Theory
Elster, J. (ed.): Rational Choice
Greenwood J. (ed.): The Future of Folk Psychology
Gilbert, M.: Living Together, Rationality, Sociality, and Obligation
Koepsell, D. ja Moss, L. (ed.): John Searle's Ideas about Social Reality: Extensions, Criticisms and Reconstructions
Martin M. & McIntyre L. (ed.): Readings in the Philosophy of Social Science
Ruben D-H.: The Metaphysics of the Social World
Searle, J.: Rationality in Action
Searle, J.: Rediscovery of the Mind
Tuomela R.: The Importance of Us
Tuomela R.: The Philosophy of Social Practices: A Collective Acceptance View
Ullmann-Margalit E.: The Emergence of NormsCourse/Subject Name: Seminar 1
Course/Subject id: Kf280 Level: Intermediate Studies Pre-requistes: Basic Studies ECTS Weighting: 4 Course/Subject Outline: The aim of the seminar is to familiarize the student with the practises of scientific discussion and philosophical writing. The work undertaken in Seminar I is intended to support the writing of the Bachelor’s thesis.
Assessment: Active participation in seminar work during the term. Each student writes a seminar essay (3,500-5,000 words) and acts as an opponent. Reading: Course/Subject Name: Seminar 2
Course/Subject id: Kf340 Level: Advanced and postgraduate Pre-requistes: Basic and Intermediate Studies ECTS Weighting: 5 Course/Subject Outline: The aim of the seminar is to familiarize the student with the practices of scientific discussion and philosophical writing. The work undertaken in advanced seminars is intended to support the writing of the Master’s thesis.
Assessment: Active participation in seminar work during the term. Each student writes a seminar essay (5,000 -6,000 words) and acts as an opponent.
Reading:
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