APA Committees

Political Philosophy: Identity & Social Justice

SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY
SPRING 2003
DR. SILVERS
San Francisco State University

Political Philosophy: Identity & Social Justice

How are distinctions of race, gender and sexuality, disability, age and class treated in traditional and innovative theories of justice, virtue ethics, and the ethics of care? Which should influence medicine, law, and public policy?

Topics
Week 1. Traditional justice theory
Weeks 2 - 5. Distributive justice
Weeks 6 - 8. Participatory justice
Week 9. Race
Week 10. Gender and Sexuality
Week 11. Disability and Age
Week 12. Medicine
Week 13. Class
Week 14. Law and Public Policy
Week 15. Summing Up

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Elizabeth Anderson - "What Is the Point of Equality" in Ethics, 109 (1999). 287-337
Kwame Anthony Appiah "Liberalism, Individualism, and Identity"
Kwame Anthony Appiah and Amy Gutmann, Color Conscious: The Political Morality of Race
Richard Arneson -"Disability, Priority, and Social Justice" in Francis and Silvers
Annette Baier, "The Need for More than Justice" in Virginia Held, Justice and Care
Lawrence Becker - "The Good of Agency" in Francis and Silvers
Derek Bell - Brown v. Board of Education and the Interest Convergence Dilemma
Allen Buchanan "Choosing Who Will Be Disabled: Genetic Intervention and the Morality of Inclusion" in Social Philosophy and Policy 13/2 (1996).
Kimberle Crenshaw - "Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color"
Carol Gilligan, "Moral Orientation and Moral Development" in Virginia Held, Justice and Care
Erving Goffman - Stigma
Virginia Held, - Feminist Morality: Transforming Culture, Society and Politics
David Ingram - Group Rights: Reconciling Equality and Difference
Eva Kittay - "When Care is Just and Justice is Caring: The Case of the Care for the Mentally Retarded" in Public Culture, 13(3), 557-579
Eva Kittay - Love's Labor
Jane Chong-Soon Lee - "Navigating the Topology of Race"
Alasdair MacIntyre, Dependent Rational Animals
Alasdair MacIntyre, "The Need for a Standard of Care" in Francis and Silvers
Martha Minow - Making All the Difference: Inclusion, Exclusion and American Law
Martha Nussbaum - "Nature, Function and Capability," and "Non-relative Virtues: An Aristotelian Approach"
Onora O'Neill - "Justice, Gender, and International Boundaries"
John Rawls - "Justice as Fairness: Political Not Metaphysical", Philosophy and Public Affairs 14 (1985): 223-51.
Sarah Ruddick, "Injustice in Families: Assault and Domination
Thomas Scanlon, "Value, Desire, and the Quality of Life" and commentary by Sissela Bok in Martha Nussbaum and Amartya Sen eds. The Quality of Life
Amartya Sen - "Equality of What?" in McMurrin, S. (ed.), Tanner Lectures on Human Values.
Anita Silvers - Disability, Difference, Discrimination (essay on formal justice)
Amartya Sen - Commodities and Capabilities
Anita Silvers - "The Rights of People with Disabilities" (from The Oxford Handbook of Practical Ethics, edited by Hugh LaFollette
Anita Silvers and Michael Ashley Stein, "Race, Gender, and Disability: Standing at the Crossroads of Retrogressive and Progressive Logic in Constitutional Classification"
Anita Silvers - "Aging Fairly: Feminist and Disability Perspectives on Intergenerational Justice"
Anita Silvers - "Gender and Disability," in Blackwell's Companion to Gender Studies edited
by David Theo Goldberg, Philomena Essed, and Audrey Kobayashi
Charles Taylor, "The Politics of Recognition" in Amy Gutman (ed.), Multiculturalism
Ayesha Vernon, "A Stranger in Many Camps"
Iris Marion Young, - Justice and the Politics of Difference
Iris Marion Young - "Asymmetrical Reciprocity: On Moral Respect, Wonder, and Enlarged Thought"