Philosophy 2132S

Rights

Winter 2007

 

Larkin 200                                                                                                                               Professor Gopal Sreenivasan

Tuesday 12-3                                                                                                                           215 Huron Street, Room 921

 

 

 

Reading Schedule

 

 

 

January 9          Introduction.  No reading.

 

J 16                  Dworkin, “Rights as Trumps,” in Waldron (ed.) Theories of Rights (1984)

 

J 23                  Nozick, Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974), pp. 26-35.

                        Scheffler, Rejection of Consequentialism (1982), ch. 4.

 

J 30                  Kagan, Limits of Morality (1989), chh. 5-6

 

February 6       Thomson, Realm of Rights (1990), chh. (1+) 2-3

 

F 13                 Thomson, Realm of Rights, chh. 4-5

 

Spring Break.

 

F 27                 Thomson, Realm of Rights, chh. 6-7

 

March 6           Hohfeld, “Fundamental Legal Conceptions,” Yale Law Journal 23 (1913)

 

M 13                Scanlon, “Rights, Goals, and Fairness,” in Waldron (ed.) Theories of Rights

                        Sreenivasan, “Duties and their direction,” §§1-3.

 

M 20                Hart, “Legal Rights,” in Essays on Bentham (1982), ch. 7

                        Hart, “Are there any natural rights?,Philosophical Review (1955)

 

M 27                MacCormick, “Rights in Legislation,” in Hacker and Raz (eds.) Law, Morality, and Society (1977)

                        Kramer, “Rights without trimmings,” in A Debate about Rights (2001)

                        Kramer and Steiner, “Theories of Rights,” OJLS (2007)

 

April 3              Raz, Morality of Freedom (1986), ch. 7

                        Raz, Ethics in the Public Domain (1994), ch. 2

 

A 10                Sreenivasan, “A Hybrid Theory of Claim-Rights,” OJLS (2005)

Sreenivasan, “Duties and their direction,” §§6-7.

 

End of term.