Apr
4
John Harsanyi’s Utilitarian Critique of John Rawls
April 4, 2012 | 1 Comment
Greetings UPA’ers! First of all, a big thank you to Erik Dempsey for the insightful discussion last week regarding Kant’s political philosophy. Continuing this week with our political philosophy unit, we will be reading a well known critique by John Harsanyi of John Rawls’ A Theory of Justice. In Rawls’ watershed work, several criticisms of [...]
Nov
4
Rationality and Morality
November 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Dearest Philosophers, This Friday we are discussing the subjects of Rationality and Morality. We will begin our discussion with Kurt Baier’s paper titled, “Rationality and Morality.” For our discussion we will focus on two short sections of the paper. We will read the first three pages and Section II (which spans from page 14 to [...]