Philosophy of Economics and Politics: Theory, Methods, and Values (PHIL 2171)
Module Guide: Module Guide 2015:16.pdf
Teaching Material
Lecture 1: PhilEcos1-15_nopix.pdf
Lecture 2: 2015_Week_2_Group_1.pdf
Lecture 3: 2015_Week_3.pdf
Lecture 4: 2015_Week_4_Group_1.pdf
Lecture 6: 2015_Week_6.pdf
Lecture 8: 2015_Week_8.pdf
Lecture 9: 2015_Week_9_Group_1.pdf
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Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Summer School 2015, Xiamen, China
Syllabus: Syllabus.pdf
Slides
Lecture 1 (Is evidence subjective or objective?): Lecture 1_Reiss.pdf
Lecture 2 (Confirmation in Physics and Consilience): Lecture 2_Reiss.pdf
Lecture 3 (Underdetermination of Theory by Evidence): Lecture 3_Reiss.pdf
Lecture 4 (Evidence, Inductive Risk, and Values): Lecture 4_Reiss.pdf
Lecture 5 (Is There a Logic of Induction?): Lecture 5_Reiss.pdf
Lecture 6 (The Contextual Nature of Evidence): Lecture 6_Reiss.pdf
Lecture 7 (Evidence-Based Medicine): Lecture 7_Reiss.pdf
Lecture 8 (Evidence-Based Social Policy): Lecture 8_Reiss.pdf
Lecture 9 (Scientific Evidence and the Law): Lecture 9_Reiss.pdf
Lecture 10 (The Weight of Evidence): Lecture 10_Reiss.pdf
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Philosophical Research Methods (MA)
Slides
Seminar November 19, 2012: PhilMethods12.pdf
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(Below you find material for the courses I taught at EUR)
Philosophy of Economics (FEB12002X-10)
Lecture Slides
Class 1 (May 7, 2012): PhilEcos1-12_bw.pdf
Class 2 (May 14, 2012): PhilEcos2-12_bw.pdf
Class 3 (May 21, 2012): PhilEcos3-12_bw.pdf
Class 4 (May 30, 2012): PhilEcos4-12_bw.pdf
Class 5 (June 4, 2012): PhilEcos5-12_bw.pdf
Class 6 (June 6, 2012): PhilEcos6-12_bw.pdf
Class 7 (June 11, 2012): PhilEcos7-12_bw.pdf
Class 8 (June 13, 2012): PhilEcos8-12_bw.pdf
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Evidence and the Foundations of Statistics (2011/12)
Course syllabus: Evidence_Syllabus.pdf
Lecture slides class 1: Evidence_slides_week_1.pdf
Lecture slides class 2: Evidence_slides_week_2.pdf
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Advanced Philosophy and Methodology of Economics (WVW4014)
Course outline: Course_Outline_2011.pdf
Lecture slides class 1: Slides_week1.pdf
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Current Affairs: Global Warming, Financial Crisis and Terror (FW-TF4001)
Syllabus: Syllabus.pdf
Lecture slides class 1: Slides_First_week.pdf
Lecture slides class 2: Slides_Second_week.pdf
Lecture slides class 3: Slides_Third_week.pdf
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Ethical Aspects of the Economy (WVW3007)
Revised Schedule
Week 1 Jan 6 Ethics in Normative and Positive Economics (H&M Chs 2/3)
Week 2 Jan 13 Consequentialism (H&M Chs 5/6)
Week 3 Jan 20 Libertarianism (H&M Ch. 10)
Week 4 Jan 27 Contractualism (H&M Ch. 12)
Week 5 Feb 3 Capabilities (Sen: Development as Freedom Ch. 3;H&M §8.5)
Feb 10 Reading week (essay on Sen due)
Week 6 Feb 17 Hippen, Benjamin 2005, “In Defense of a Regulated Market
in Kidneys from Living Vendors”, Journal of Medicine and
Philosophy 30(6): 593-626
Satz, Debra 2008, “The Moral Limits of Markets: The Case
of Human Kidneys”, Proceedings of the Aristotelian
Society 108(3): 269-88
Week 7 Feb 24 Anderson, Elizabeth 1990, “The Ethical Limitations of the
Market”, Economics and Philosophy 6: 179-205*
Wolff, Jonathan forthcoming, “Moral Limits of the
Market”, unpublished manuscript
Week 8 Mar 3 Daniels, Norman 2001, “Justice, Health, and Health Care”,
The American Journal of Bioethics 1(2): 2-16
Vaillancourt Rosenau, Pauline and Christiaan Lako 2008,
Experiment with Regulated Competition and Individual
Mandates for Universal Health Care: The New Dutch Health
Insurance System”, Journal of Health Politics, Policy and
Law 33(6): 1031-54
Week 9 Mar 10 Myles, John 2002, “A New Social Contract for the
Elderly?”, in Esping-Andersen, Gøsta (ed.), Why We Need A
New Welfare State, Oxford: OUP, 130-72*
Schokkaert, Erik and Philippe Van Parijs 2003,
“Debate on Social Justice and Pension Reform: Social
Justice and the Reform of Europe’s Pension Systems”,
Journal of European Social Policy 13(3): 245-79
Week 10 Mar 17 Husak, Douglas 1989, “Recreational Drugs and
Paternalism”, Law and Philosophy 8(3): 353-81
Wolff, Jonathan 2007, “The Regulation of Recreational
Drugs: Philosophical Argument and Public Policy”,
unpublished manuscript
Apr 12 Essay due (final; no extension)
Lecture Slides
Week 1 (January 6, 2010): Ethics_2010-1.pdf
Week 2 (January 13, 2010): Ethics_2010-2.pdf
Week 3 (January 20, 2010): Ethics_2010-3.pdf
Week 4 (January 27, 2010): Ethics_2010-4.pdf
Week 5 (February 3, 2010): Ethics_2010-5.pdf
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Causality (MW4013)
Course outline: Causality_outline_2010.pdf
Lecture slides class 1: Lecture1.pdf
Lecture slides class 6: Lecture6.pdf
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Academic Skills Workshop
Slides: Presentations workshop 09-10.pdf