second year course outlines 2012-2013 - School of Social Sciences ...

Velleman J. D. (1992) ‘The Guise of the Good’ Noûs Vol. 26 No. 1 pp. 3-26. It is also
collected in
Self to Self Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (a collection of Velleman’s
papers).
Smith M. (1994) The Moral Problem. Oxford: Basil Blackwell ch. 5. See also ch. 6.
Lecture 5: Contractualism
Tutorial Reading (on Blackboard): Scanlon T. (1982) ‘Contractualism and Utilitarianism’ in A.
Sen, B. Williams (eds.) Utilitarianism and Beyond Cambridge: CUP. Also in several
collections.
Other readings:
* Scanlon T. (1998) What We Owe to Each Other Cambridge, Mass.: HUP. Ch. 5. See also
ch. 4.
Parfit D. (2011) On What Matters Oxford: OUP Vol. 1 ch. 15 ‘Contractualism’.
If you search for this via the JRUL catalogue, you’ll find an e-book version viewable
online.
* Pettit P. (2006) ‘Can Contract Theory Ground Morality?’ in J. Drier (ed.) Contemporary
Debates in Moral Theory Oxford: Blackwell pp. 77-96.
Rawls J. (1971) A Theory of Justice various editions. Secs. 3, 4, 11, 20, 24, 26. These
sections are collected in S. Darwall (ed.) Contractarianism/Contractualism Oxford: Blackwell.
Darwall S. (2002) ‘Introduction’ S. Darwall (ed.) Contractarianism/Contractualism Oxford:
Blackwell.
Watson G. (1998) ‘Some considerations in favor of contractualism’ in C. Morris, J. Coleman
(eds.) Rational commitment and morality Cambridge CUP, also in S. Darwall (ed.)
Contractarianism/Contractualism Oxford: Blackwell.
Matravers M. (ed.) (2003) Scanlon and Contractualism London: Frank Cass.
Stratton-Lake P. (ed.) (2004) On What We Owe to Each Other Oxford: Blackwell.
! Wallace R. J. (2002) ‘Scanlon's Contractualism’ Ethics Vol. 112 pp. 429-70. See especially
pp. 449 onwards: sec. III ‘Moral Reasons’ and sec. IV ‘The Unity of Morality’.
Stratton-Lake P. (2003) ‘Scanlon’s contractualism and the redundancy objection’ Analysis 63
No. 1 pp. 70–76.
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