Ethics and Political Theory Reading Group

2020/21

1st Semester 

Wednesdays, 11:00 a.m.

The reading group of the Ethics and Political Philosophy Laboratory will take place online, via Zoom. Anyone interested in participating can send an email to filipefaria@fcsh.unl.pt . The programme is as follows:

October

14/10 – Marta Vences

        Antti Kauppinen, "Empathy and Moral Judgement", in H. Maibom (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Empathy, 2017. 

28/10 – Luís Miguel Simões

          John Rawls, Political Liberalism (Expanded Edition), New York: Columbia University Press, 2005 (1st ed. 1993), Lecture I, §§ 1-4, pp, 3-28.

November

18/11 – Giovanni Damele

           Cass Sunstein, "Has liberalism ruined everything?". Contemp Polit Theory 19, 175–187 (2020).

25 /11– António Marques

         Jürgen Habermas, Between Facts and Norms, The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts. pp. 1-17.

December

9/12 – Gabriele De Angelis

           Bernard Williams: “Realism and Moralism in Political Theory”, in In the Beginning Was the Deed, ed. by Geoffrey Hawthorn (Princeton-Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2005), pp. 1-17.

16/12 – João Lemos

         Berys Gaut, "The ethical criticism of art", in J. Levinson (ed.), Aesthetics and Ethics: Essays at the Intersection, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998 (pp. 182-203).