Module PHLM006 for 2019/0
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Postgraduate Module Descriptor
PHLM006: Contemporary Ethics
This module descriptor refers to the 2019/0 academic year.
Indicative Reading List
This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.
Readings will be part journal articles, book chapters and a few books and where possible available on a module online reading list on ELE.
Indicative Readings:
Jürgen Habermas: The Future of Human Nature, Polity Press 2003
S. Kagan, What's Wrong with Speciesism?, Journal of Applied Philosophy Vol 33 (1), 2016, 1–21
Angela Smith, Responsibility for Attitudes: Activity and Passivity in Mental Life, Ethics, 115:2, 2005
Judith Butler, Senses of the Subject, Fordham University Press 2015
Antti Kauppinen, "Meaningfulness", in Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Well-Being, ed. Guy Fletcher, Abingdon: Routledge 2015, 281-291.
Allan Gibbard (2012), Meaning and Normativity, Oxford University Press
Thomas Pogge, Real World Justice, The Journal of Ethics 9, Nos. 1-2 (2005), 29-53, 31
Seyla Benhabib, Dignity in Adversity. Human Rights in Troubled Times, Polity Press 2011
