PHIL 6430 - Topics in Social and Political Philosophy

(crosslisted)
(also AMST 6656, GOVT 6656, SOC 6430)

Fall. 4 credits.

Permission of instructor required. Co-meets with AMST 4655/GOVT 4655/PHIL 4470/SOC 4430.

R. Miller, A. M. Smith.

An inquiry into the moral and political importance of equality, liberty, and democracy, emphasizing deep issues raised in this year?s U.S. presidential election. Six sessions will be led by eminent scholars who will come to Cornell as part of the Ethics and Public Life series, ?Deep Issues of the 2012 Elections.? They are Jacob Hacker (Political Science, Yale), Larry Bartels (Political Science, Vanderbilt), David Schmidtz (Philosophy, Arizona), Harry Brighouse (Philosophy, Wisconsin-Madison), Doug McAdam (Sociology, Stanford), Hilary Hoynes (Economics, UC Davis). The other sessions will investigate enduring perspectives on these topics in political philosophy, including work by John Rawls, Robert Nozick, Ronald Dworkin, John Stuart Mill, and Edmund Burke.