Well the course is now officially at an end. Thanks to all of you, the students, for making this such a great experience for me. I appreciate your interest and your dedication to the course. We worked through some very difficult material so you ought to be as proud of yourselves as I am appreciative of your efforts.
I will be teaching another course here at UCSC this Fall. The course is 'Philosophy of Race and Gender'. We'll be covering recent essentialism versus constructivism debates now raging in contemporary discussions of race and gender. We'll also consider how different views of race and gender lend themselves to affirming the importance of a politics of recognition. We'll likely read a few very good books by Cornel West, Anthony Appiah, Judith Butler, and bell hooks. The course will start with introductory material on realism/constructivism in the work of Ian Hacking and as applied to gender and race by Sally Haslanger. Other introductory material will include the Nancy Fraser and Richard Rorty debates with which we ended PHIL/LGST 144. (Course Info: PHIL 153 - not yet added to the schedule but it will be soon - see the Philosophy Dept. course listings online).
Thanks again to all of you.
Thursday, June 5, 2008
End of Term + Fall Course
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I'm pursuing some of the ideas from class and looking at emerging ideas in liberal theory. This particular one is an interesting continuation of the discussion of Rawl's ideas on distribution and egalitarianism.
http://www.alibris.com/booksearch?qwork=8848163&matches=25&author=Parijs%2C+Philippe&browse=1&cm_sp=works*listing*title
"Redesigning Distribution: Basic Income and Stakeholder Grants as Cornerstones for an Egalitarian Capitalism
by Bruce A Ackerman, Professor Anne Alstott, Philippe Parijs
About this title: Are there ways that contemporary capitalism can be rendered a dramatically more egalitarian economic system without destroying its productivity and capacity for growth? This book explores two proposals, unconditional basic income and stakeholder grants, that attempt just that."
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