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

Ridge M. (2003) ‘Contractualism and the new and improved redundancy objection’ Analysis
63 No. 4 pp. 337-42.
Frei T. (2008) ‘The Redundancy Objection, and Why Scanlon is Not a Contractualist’ pp. 47-
65 Journal of Political PhilosophyVol. 17 pp. 47-65.
Lecture 6: Kant’s formula of universal law
Tutorial Reading (on Blackboard): Parfit D. (2011) On What Matters Oxford: OUP Vol. 1 ch.
12 ‘Universal Laws’.
Other readings:
* Kant I. Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals (sometimes translated as Groundwork of
the Metaphysics of Morals, not to be confused with his Metaphysics of Morals). Esp.
sec. II.
* Korsgaard C. (1985) ‘Kant’s formula of universal law’ Pacific Philosophical Quarterly Vol.
66. pp. 24-47. Also in her (1996) Creating the Kingdom of Ends Cambridge: CUP.
Korsgaard C. (1986) ‘The Right to Lie: Kant on Dealing with Evil’ Philosophy and Public
Affairs Vol. 15 No. 4. Also in her (1996) Creating the Kingdom of Ends Cambridge: CUP.
Dietrichson P. (1964) ‘When is a Maxim Fully Universalisable?’ Kant-Studien Vol. 55 pp.
143-70.
Herman B. (1993) The Practice of Moral Judgment Cambridge, Mass.: HUP ch. 3.
Nell O. (1975) Acting on Principle: an Essay on Kantian Ethics New York: Columbia
University Press.
O’Neill O. (1989) ‘Consistency in Action’ in her Constructions of Reason: Explorations of
Kant's Practical Philosophy Cambridge: CUP. (In various other places too).
(By the way, O. Nell and O. O’Neill are the same person…)
Wood A. (1999) Kant's Ethical Thought Cambridge: CUP ch. 3.
Sullivan R. (1994) An Introduction to Kant's Ethics. Cambridge: CUP. Ch. 3.
Sullivan R. (1989) Immanuel Kant's Moral Theory Cambridge: CUP Chs. 11-13.
Lecture 7: Kant’s formula of humanity
Tutorial Reading (on Blackboard): Thompson J. (1985) ‘The Trolley Problem’ Yale Law
Journal Vol. 94 pp. 1395-1415. Also in S. Darwall (ed.) Deontology Oxford: Blackwell.
Other readings:
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