Political Philosophy Graduate Seminar: Lent 2006 Martin ONeill, St Johns College ( mpo24-AT-cam.ac.

uk ) Andrea Sangiovanni, Pembroke College ( as756-AT-cam.ac.uk ) Global Justice This seminar will critically examine the recent literature on global distributive justice. We will meet for 7 seminars, starting in Week 2 of term (i.e. Friday, Jan 27). We will address the main competing positions on global justice, including global cosmopolitanism (Wk. 1), two forms of statism (Wks. 3 & 4), and Rawlss view as presented in his Law of Peoples (Wks. 5 & 6). Weeks 2 & 7 address two of the most important philosophical questions at stake in the global justice debate firstly, whether we, in the affluent parts of the world, harm the global poor and whether our duties to the poor are negative or positive in character (Wk. 2) and secondly, whether the content and scope of principles of justice should vary according to the institutional context they are intended to regulate and, if so, how (Wk. 7). The starred readings [*] indicated for each week are the most important; other readings provide additional background. This seminar is intended for graduate students in Philosophy and SPS, and for undergraduates taking the Pol 6 paper in Part II SPS (History of Political Thought since 1890 and Political Philosophy) or taking the Political Philosophy paper for Part II of the Philosophy Tripos. Meetings will be on Fridays, 4-6 p.m. in the Nihon Room at Pembroke College, unless otherwise noted (e.g. Feb 3 and Feb 24, well be meeting in the Castlereagh Room at St Johns College).
Background and Overview Reading:

Simon Caney, (2005), Justice Beyond Borders: A Global Political Theory (Oxford: OUP) Brian Barry and Matt Matravers, International Justice, Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, available online at: http://www.rep.routledge.com/article/S033 Charles R. Beitz, (1999), International Liberalism and Distributive Justice, World Politics 51: 269Simon Caney, (2001), International Distributive Justice, Political Studies 49: 974-97. Kok-Chor Tan, (2004), Justice without Borders: Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, and Patriotism (Cambridge, UK ; New York: Cambridge University Press), chapters 1-4 Charles Beitz, (2005), Cosmopolitanism and Global Justice, Journal of Ethics 9: 11-27. Michael Blake, (2005), International Justice, in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, available online at: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/international-justice/
Week 1: Global Cosmopolitanism (27th January Nihon Room, Pembroke)

Readings: Required:

* Peter Singer, (1972), Famine, Affluence, and Morality, Philosophy & Public Affairs 1: 229-43. * Peter Singer, (2002), One World: The Ethics of Globalization (New Haven: Yale University Press), pp. 150-80. * Charles R. Beitz, (1975), Justice and International Relations, Philosophy & Public Affairs 4: pp. 360-389. * Charles R. Beitz, (1983), Cosmopolitan Ideals and National Sentiment, The Journal of Philosophy 80: 591-600, p. 595. Brian Barry (1991), Humanity and Justice in Global Perspective, in Essays in Political Theory, 2 Clarendon Press, Oxford, pp. 182-210. Liam Murphy, (1993), The Demands of Beneficence, Philosophy & Public Affairs Thomas Pogge, (1989), Realizing Rawls (Ithaca: Cornell University Press), Part Three on Globalizing the Rawlsian Conception of Justice. David A. J. Richards, (1982), International Distributive Justice, in Nomos XXIV: Ethics, Economics, and the Law, eds. J. R. Pennock and C. J. W. (New York: New York University Press). Thomas Scanlon, (1975), Rawls Theory of Justice, in Reading Rawls: Critical Studies on Rawls a Theory of Justice, ed. N. Daniels (New York: Basic Books).

Optional:

Week 2:

Do We Harm the Global Poor? (3rd February Castlereagh Room, St Johns)

Readings: Required:

* Thomas Pogge, (2005), Severe Poverty as a Violation of Negative Duties, Ethics & International Affairs 19: 55-83. * Thomas Pogge, (2005), Real World Justice, Journal of Ethics, 9: 29-53 * Mathias Risse, (2005), How Do We Harm the Global Poor? Philosophy & Public Affairs 33: 349-76. Debra Satz, (2005), What Do We Owe the Global Poor?, Ethics & International Affairs 19: 47-54. Alan Patten, (2005), Should We Stop Thinking About Poverty in Terms of Helping the Poor?, Ethics & International Affairs 19: 19-27. Mathias Risse, (2005), Do We Owe the Global Poor Assistance or Rectification? Ethics & International Affairs 19: 9-18. Mathias Risse, (2005), What We Owe to the Global Poor, Journal of Ethics 9: 81-117.
Coercion, Equality and Global Justice I (10th February Nihon Room, Pembroke)

Optional:

Week 3:

Readings: Required:

*Michael Blake, (2001), Distributive Justice, State Coercion, and Autonomy, Philosophy & Public Affairs 30: 257-96. *Thomas Nagel, (2005), The Problem of Global Justice, Philosophy & Public Affairs 33: 113-47. Thomas Pogge, (2002), World Poverty and Human Rights, (Oxford: Blackwell), Chapter 4 on Moral Universalism and Global Economic Justice.
Coercion, Equality and Global Justice II (17th February Nihon Room, Pembroke)

Optional:

Week 4:

Readings: Required:

* Joshua Cohen and Charles Sabel, (2006), Extra Rempublicam Nulla Justicia?, forthcoming in Philosophy & Public Affairs * T. M. Scanlon, When Does Equality Matter? (unpublished manuscript) * Richard Arneson, (2005), Do Patriotic Ties Limit Global Justice Duties? Journal of Ethics 9: 127-50, excerpts. Charles Beitz, (2001), Does Global Inequality Matter? Metaphilosophy 32: 95-112. A. J. Julius, (2006), Nagels Atlas, forthcoming in Philosophy & Public Affairs Peter Singer, (2002), One World: The Ethics of Globalization, (New Haven: Yale University Press), pp. 172-175.
Rawls I: Law of Peoples (24th February Castlereagh Room, St Johns)

Optional:

Week 5:

Readings: Required: Optional:

* John Rawls, (1999), The Law of Peoples (Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP). Peter Singer, (2002), One World: The Ethics of Globalization, (New Haven: Yale University Press), pp. 176-180. Michael Blake, (2005), Rawlss Law of Peoples, 3 of his International Justice, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, available online at: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/international-justice/
Rawls II: Critiques and Defences (3rd March Nihon Room, Pembroke)

Week 6:

Readings: Required:

* Charles Beitz, (2000), Rawlss Law of Peoples, Ethics 110: 669-96. * Allen Buchanan (2000), Rawlss Law of Peoples: Rules for a Vanished Westphalian World, Ethics 110: 669-721.

Optional:

Thomas Pogge, (1994), An Egalitarian Law of Peoples, Philosophy & Public Affairs 23: 195-224. Kok-Chor Tan, (1998), Liberal Toleration in Rawlss Law of Peoples, Ethics 108: 276-95. Thomas Pogge, (2001), Rawls on International Justice, Philosophical Quarterly 51: 246-53. Simon Caney (2002), Survey Article: Cosmopolitanism and the Law of Peoples, Journal of Political Philosophy 10: 95-123. Leif Wenar, (2006), The Legitimacy of Peoples, in Global Politics and Transnational Justice, ed. P. de Greiff and C. Cronin MIT (2002): 53-76. Leif Wenar, (forthcoming, 2006) Why Rawls is Not a Cosmopolitan Egalitarian in Rawls's Law of Peoples: A Realistic Utopia?, ed. R. Martin and D. Reidy (London: Blackwell).
The Role of Institutions (10th March Nihon Room, Pembroke)

Week 7:

Readings: Required:

* John Rawls, (1993), The Basic Structure as Subject, Lecture VII of his Political Liberalism, (New York: Columbia University Press). * Liam Murphy (1998), Institutions and the Demands of Justice, Philosophy & Public Affairs 27: 251-91. * Aaron James (2005), Constructing Justice for Existing Practice: Rawls and the Status Quo, Philosophy & Public Affairs 33: 281-316. John Rawls, (1980), Kantian Constructivism in Moral Theory, Journal of Philosophy, 88: 515-72, reprinted in his (1999), Collected Papers, ed. Samuel Freeman, (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press) Charles Beitz, (2004) Human Rights and the Law of Peoples, in The Ethics of Assistance, ed. Dean Chatterjee (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press). G. A. Cohen, (1997), Where the Action Is: On the Site of Distributive Justice, Philosophy & Public Affairs, 26: 3-30 Andrew Williams, (1998), Incentives, Inequality, and Publicity, Philosophy & Public Affairs 27: pp. 225-47. Thomas Pogge, (2000), On the Site of Distributive Justice, Philosophy & Public Affairs, 29:2 G. A. Cohen (2003), Facts and Principles, Philosophy & Public Affairs 31: 211-45. A. J. Julius, (2003), Basic Structure and the Value of Equality, Philosophy & Public Affairs, 31:4 Leif Wenar, (forthcoming, 2006), The Basic Structure as Object: Institutions and Humanitarian Concern, The Canadian Journal of Philosophy.

Optional:

NB.

Most articles from Ethics, Philosophy & Public Affairs, the Philosophical Quarterly and the Journal of Philosophy are available online via JSTOR. ( http://www.jstor.org )