Course Webpage: Philosophy of Law
Readings
Mon. Jan 28: "Legal Punishment" Stanford Encyclopedia entry AND Primoratz, Chapter 1.
Wed. Jan 30. Primoratz, Chapter 2. AND Bentham, "Cases Unmeet for Punishment."
Mon. Feb 4. Primoratz, Chapter 3
Wed. Feb. 6. Group work on Monday's reading.
Mon. Feb. 11. Continue discussion and Primoratz, Chapters 4 and 5.
Wed. Feb. 13. Primoratz 4 and 5, cont'd.
Mon. Feb. 18. Morris, Persons and Punishment.
Wed. Feb. 20. Burgh, "Do the Guilty Deserve Punishment?"
Mon. Feb. 25. Murphy. "Marxism and Retribution." (Phil Public Affairs book)
Wed. Feb. 27. Murphy cont'd.
Mon. March 3. Hampton. "A Moral Education Theory of Punishment." (Phil Public Affairs book)
Wed. Mar. 5. Feinberg, "The Expressive Function of Punishment."
Mon. Mar 10. Nagel. "Moral Luck."
Wed. Mar 12. Young et al 2007, " The neural basis of the interaction between theory of mind and moral judgment.". and The Case of Robert Harris, (from the Watson paper linked to here, pp. 17-20)
Mon. Mar. 24. Nussbaum, "Equity and Mercy" (Phil. Public Affairs book)
TAKE HOME MIDTERM. (Due Friday, Mar. 29)
Wed. Mar. 26. Continue with Nussbaum
Mon. Mar. 31. Group work, attention to particulars.
Wed. April 2. Monterosso et al. "Explaining Away Responsibility." Also a discussion of the Leopold and Loeb case. See here for details. (Scan through the trial page, check out the case description and Darrow's summation.) Here are some relevant excerpts from the summation.
Mon. April. 7. Greene and Cohen. "For the law, neuroscience changes nothing and everything."
Wed. Apr. 9: Daly and Wilson. Selections from Homicide.
Mon. Apr. 14. Sommers, "The Two Faces of Revenge: Moral Responsibility and the Culture of Honor."
Wed. Apr. 16. Van den Haag. "Deterrence and the Death Penalty" AND Conway "Capital Punishment and Deterrence..." p. 261 Phil Public Affairs book.
Mon. Apr. 21. Nathanson, "Does it matter if the death penalty is arbitrarily administered?' Phil. Public Affairs
Wed. Apr. 23. Van den Haag. "Refuting Heiman and Nathanson." Phil. Public Affairs
Mon. Apr. 28. Presentations: Adam, Kelli, Kevin, John, Britney.
Wed. Apr. 30. Presentations: Two Shacks, Christina, Ben, KT, Liz
Mon. May 5. Presentations: Alex, Kele, Sean, Graham, Tara
Wed. May 7. Presentations: Kat, Zach. And evaluations.
TAKE HOME FINAL. Due. Sunday May 11. 5 PM. Email OK