Philosophy 2132S
Rights
Winter 2007
Larkin 200 Professor Gopal Sreenivasan
Tuesday
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.