PIAA Resources

Theory and Philosophy Resources

Reading Material

Articles, book selections, and a few books
(A “must read” list of articles and book sections compiled by various professors - via the blog Crooked Timber)

Begin with this
Mansfield, Harvey. (1995). Political Theory as Historical Artifact The Review of Politics 57 (2) pp 372-374

Communitarianism (and relevant material)
Taylor, Charles "Atomism," originally published in Powers, Possessions and Freedoms, ed. Alkis Kontos (Toronto: University of Toronto
Press, 1979

———, “What’s Wrong with Negative Liberty” (Ch 8)
———,“Politics of recognition” in Gutmann, Multiculturalism and the Politics of Recognition, Princeton, 1992.

Walzer, Michael “The Communitarian Critique of Liberalism”
Wolff, Paul, Barrington Moore, Herbert Marcuse. A Critique of Pure Tolerance. (find the book at amazon)

Contractarianism and neo-Kantianism
Buchanan, Allen. ‘Justice as Reciprocity versus Subject-Centered Justice’, Philosophy and Public Affairs, Vol. 19(3), 1990: 227-52.
Scanlon, T.M. “Preference and Urgency” J. Phil 72 (19) 1975
———, “Contractualism and Utilitarianism” in Sen & Williams, Utilitarianism and Beyond, Cambridge, 1982.
(If you are interested in Scanlon, you might also want to read Elizabeth Ashford’s “The Demanding of Scanlon’s Contractualism” Ethics,Vol. 113, No. 2 (Jan., 2003), pp. 273-302)

Diversity
Raz, Joseph. ‘Facing Diversity: The Case of Epistemic Abstinence,’ Philosophy & Public Affairs (1990)

Equality
Anderson, Elizabeth. “What is the Point of Equality?” Ethics 109 (2) 1999.
Cohen, Joshua “Deliberation and Democratic Legitimacy” in Bohman & Rehg, Deliberative Democracy, MIT Press, 1997.
———, “Procedure and Substance in Deliberative Democracy,” in Bohman & Rehg
Dworkin, Ronald. (1981) “Equality of Resources and Equality of Welfare: A Forced Marriage?” Phil & Pub Affairs 10 (2).
Frankfurt, Harry. “Equality as a Moral Ideal,” Ethics 98 (1987)
———, “What is Equality” (parts 1 and 2) Philosophy and Public Affairs (1981) (now chs 1 and 2 of his Sovereign Virtue.)

Parfit, Derek. ‘Equality or Priority?’, The Lindley Lecture, University of Kansas (1991), pp 1- 42
(shortened version: “Equality and Priority” Ratio, vol. 10, no. 3 (1997) pp. 202–221,
or in Matthew Clayton and Andrew Williams eds. The Ideal of Equality, ch. 5.
Parijis, Phillipe Van. “Why surfers should be fed. The liberal case for an unconditional basic income.” In: Ethics and Economics,
vol. 2, University of Siena: International School of Economic Research, July 1991, pp. 287-318.
Raz, Joseph. The Authority of Law: Essays on Law & Morality. 1979
———, The Morality of Freedom. 1986
Sen, Amartya. “Equality of What?” in McMurrin, Tanner Lectures on Human Values, Cambridge, 1980.
———, assorted other pieces on capabilities.

Feminism
“Feminism, Marxism, Method and the State: An Agenda for Theory.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 515(1983): 7.
“Feminism, Marxism, Method and the State: Toward Feminist Jurisprudence.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 635 (1983): 8.
(Note from blog: “These should be read serially, as one piece. Agree or not, they are the touchstone for all following debates about feminist political theory.”)

Gender and Race
Mills, Charles W. “Do Black Men have a Moral Duty to Marry Black Women?” in Journal of Social Philosophy (1993?)
———, “But What are you Really?”, Blackness Visible.
Nussbaum, Martha C. “Women and Human Development: The Capabilities Approach”

Global Justice
Pogge, Thomas. “Cosmopolitanism and Sovereignty”, in Ethics, Vol. 103, No. 1 (Oct., 1992), pp. 48-75

Human Rights
Wenar, Leif. “Human Rights” Phil & Pub Aff 2005 or Ch 16 The Nature of Human Rights

Justice
Cohen, G. A. (2001) If You’re an Egalitarian, How Come You’re So Rich?
———, “On the Currency of Egalitarian Justice” Ethics 99 (4), 1989.
———, “Where the Action Is: On the Site of Distributive Justice” Phil & Pub Affairs 26 (1), 1997
D’Amato, Anthony. “On the Connection between Law and Justice”
Daniels, Norman. “Democratic Equality: Rawls’s Complex Egalitarianism”, Cambridge Companion to Rawls.
Duff, R.A. Trials & Punishments. 1986
Husak, Douglas. “Why Punish the Deserving?” Nous 1992.
Okin, Susan Moller. “Justice and Gender,” Philosophy and Public Affairs, vol. 16, no. 1 (1987). or the book
Rawls, John. “Justice as Fairness: Political not Metaphysical” Phil & Pub Affairs 14 (3) 1985.
———, “The Law of Peoples” Critical Inquiry 20 (1) 1993 (in lieu of the book).
Scheffler, Samuel. What is Egalitarianism?, PPA Vol. 31, winter 2003.
Schmidtz, David. “How to Deserve” Political Theory Vol. 30, No. 6 (Dec., 2002), pp. 774-799
Shapiro, Ian. “Gross Concepts in Political Argument,” Political Theory 17:1 (February 1989).
Young, Iris Marion. “Displacing the Distributive Paradigm,” (in her book, Justice and the Politics of Difference)
Waldron, Jeremy. “When justice replaces affection”
———, “Rights and minorities”
———, “Minority cultures” found in The Rights of Minority Cultures by Will Kymlicka
(Note From Blog: “[Daniels’ article is] perhaps the clearest account of “democratic egalitarianism”. It also makes quite a nice contribution to the destruction of G.A. Cohen’s view of egalitarianism and mis-reading of the difference principle, though of course Cohen’s view is perhaps the most completely refuted view in political philosophy today, so there are lots of places to look for that.”)

Libertarianism
Libertarianism vs. Liberalism
Freeman, Samuel. “Illiberal Libertarians: Why Libertarianism Is Not a Liberal View”, PPA 2001 Vol. 30, spring
(Note From Blog: “Excellent for showing how libertarianism differs from liberalism, and how the former isn’t an attractive view.”)

Left Libertarianism
Fried, B. H. (2004). “Left-Libertarianism: A Review Essay.” Philosophy and Public Affairs. 32 (1).

Reply to above article
Vallentyne, P., H. Steiner and M. Otsuka (2005). “Why Left-Libertarianism is Not Incoherent, Indeterminate, or Irrelevant.” Philosophy and Public Affairs. 33 (2): 201-215.

Criticism of left- and right-libertarianism
Kagan, S. (1994). “The Argument From Liberty.” In Harm’s Way: Essays in Honor of Joel Feinberg. J. L. Coleman and A. Buchanan, Eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 16-41.
(Note From Blog: “In this article, Kagan talks as if right-libertarianism is the only kind of libertarianism. I’ve so far looked at it as a criticism of right-libertarianism without worrying too much about its potential application to left-libertarianism. But I’m aware that I should think about it more broadly.”)

Liberalism and Liberty
Larmore, Charles. “Political Liberalism,” Political Theory, vol. 18, no. 3 (1990).
Galston, William. “Expressive Liberty, Moral Pluralism, Political Pluralism: Three sources of Liberal Theory” William and Mary Law Review, number 41.
Marneffe, P. De. ‘Liberalism, Liberty, and Neutrality’, Philosophy and Public Affairs, Vol. 19, No. 3, 1990, pp. 253-274
Shklar, Judith. “Liberalism of Fear”.
Skinner, Quentin. “The Idea of Negative Liberty: Philosophical and Historical Perspectives” in Richard Rorty et al (ed.), Philosophy in History (1984)
———, “The Republican Ideal of Political Liberty” in Bock, Skinner and Viroli (eds.), Machiavelli and Republicanism (1990)
Waldron, Jeremy. “Theoretical Foundations of Liberalism” The Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 37, No. 147 (Apr., 1987), pp. 127-150
———, “Judicial Review and the Conditions of Democracy” J. Pol Phil 6 (4), 1998.
———, ‘Locke, Toleration, and the Rationality of Persecution,’ reprinted in Liberal Rights (1993)
(Note from blog: “[“Locke, Toleration...”] is probably the best article on the subject in the last 30 years - Waldron’s recents efforts notwithstanding”).

Market Systems / Capitalism / Capitalism vs. Socialism / Money
Cohen, G.A. ‘Freedom and Money’.
———, “Robert Nozick and Wilt Chamberlain: How Patters Preserve Liberty” (Erkenntnis 1975-)Vol. 11, No. 1, Social Ethics, Part 1 (May, 1977), pp. 5-23
Lindblom, Charles. “The Market as Prison,” Journal of Politics, Vol. 44, No. 2 (May, 1982), pp. 324-336
Nozick. Robert (1998) ‘Why do intellectuals oppose capitalism?’ Cato Policy Report Vol XX No 1
(Notes from blog: “This [Lindblom article] is a great statement of the potential tensions between market systems and self-governance, taking both markets and democratic institutions at their best. For grad student summer reading, you can’t beat it.” AND “[Cohen’s article on Nozick] was an object-lesson in how to shift the argumentative centre of gravity for me as a graduate student.”)

Nietzsche and Foucault
Foucault, Michel. “What is Enlightenment” in Paul Rabinow (ed.), The Foucault Reader (1984)
McCarthy, Thomas. “The Critique of Impure Reason: Foucault and the Frankfurt School,” (Political Theory 18, no. 3 (August 1990): 437-469).
Geuss, Raymond. “Nietzsche and Genealogy” in his Morality, Culture, and History: Essays on German Philosophy (1999).

Political Legitimacy
Simmons, A. John. “Justification and Legitimacy”

Political Philosophy and Theory (internal questions, critiques, discussions, debates)
Cohen, G A. ‘Facts and Principles’, ‘Philosophy and Public Affairs’, Vol. 31, No. 3, 2003. pp. 211-245.
Hampton, Jean. “Should Political Philosophy be Done Without Metaphysics?” 1989. Ethics Vol. 99, No. 4 (Jul., 1989), pp. 791-814
Symposium on “The Strange Silence of Political Theory” by Jeffrey Isaac, + Rejoinder with comments by William Connolly, Kirstie McClure, Elizabeth Kiss, Michael Gillespie, and Seyla Benhabib, Political Theory 23:4 (November 1995).

Social Contract
David Gauthier, “The social contract as ideology,” Philosophy and Public Affairs 6:130-164.

More
Insight into thinking of Congressional Reps
Fenno, Richard (2002) “Home Style: House Members in Their Districts”

Rawls
Rawls-Habermas debate in JP
Leif Wenar, “The Unity of Rawls’s Work” Journal of Moral Philosophy 2004

“An extraordinarily deep and challenging paper”
Christiano, Thomas. “The Incoherence of Hobbesian Justifications of the State,” American Philosophical Quarterly (1994)

Misc.
Gutmann, Amy and Dennis Thompson. Moral Conflict and Political Consensus (Ethics 1990).
Hart, H.L.A. The Concept of Law, 2d Edition (with postscript). 1994.
Knowles, Dudley. Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Hegel and the Philosophy of Right. 2002.
Nagel, Thomas. ‘Moral Conflict and Political Legitimacy,’ Philosophy & Public Affairs (1987).
Waldron, Jeremy. ‘What Plato Would Allow,’ in NOMOS XXXVII: Theory and Practice (1995).
Young, I.M. ‘Polity and Group difference: a critique of the Ideal of Universal Cititzenship’ Ethics 99, 1989.
———, “The Five Faces of Oppression.” The Philosophical Forum 19 270-290 (1988).