Phi 213 Sp12
Syllabus: contact info, texts, requirements, calendar
 
 

Calendar. The assignments below are approximate and tentative. The reading guide for each class will give full details of the assignment and sometimes include passages that are part of your assignment.

1/16  some ideas of natural law (PDF)
1/18Aquinas sels. from Summa Theologiæ I-II qq. 90, 91, 94-97 (1up PDF, 2up PDF)—guide
1/20Austin The Province of Jurisprudence Determined, lecture I (1up PDF, 2up PDF)—guide
1/23  ibid., lecture I cont’d (1up PDF, 2up PDF) and selections from lecture V (1up PDF, 2up PDF)—guide
1/25  ibid., selections from lecture VI (1up PDF, 2up PDF)—guide
1/27Holmes “The Path of the Law” (on JSTOR at 1322028)—guide
1/30Hart The Concept of Law, ch. 3 §1—guide
2/1  ibid., ch. 3 §3, ch. 4 §1—guide
2/3  ibid., ch. 5—guide
2/6  ibid., ch. 6 §§1-2—guide
2/8 (ppr1 due) ibid., ch. 7 §1—guide
2/10  ibid., §§2-3—guide
2/13  ibid., ch. 9 §1 pp. 192f, §2, §3 (vi), note to p. 208 (on pp. 303f)—guide
2/15Dworkin “The Model of Rules,” §§I-III (on JSTOR at 1598947)—guide
2/17  ibid., §§IV-V (on JSTOR at 1598947)—guide
2/20  “Hard Cases,” §§I-II (on JSTOR at 1340249)—guide
2/22  ibid., §§III-IV.A.1 (on JSTOR at 1340249)—guide
2/24  ibid., §§IV.A.2-B.1 (on JSTOR at 1340249)—guide
2/27  ibid., §§B.2-3 (on JSTOR at 1340249)—guide
2/29  ibid., §V (on JSTOR at 1340249)—guide
3/2 midterm exam
spring break
3/12Hart The Concept of Law, ch. 8, §1—guide
3/14Hohfeld “Some Fundamental Legal Conceptions as Applied in Judicial Reasoning,” pp. 16-20, 28-44 (on JSTOR at 785533)—guide
3/16  ibid., pp. 44-59 (on JSTOR at 785533)—guide
3/19Rawls “Two Concepts of Rules,” §§I-II (on JSTOR at 2182230)—guide
3/21  ibid., §§III-IV (on JSTOR at 2182230)—guide
3/23Mill sels. from On Liberty (1up PDF, 2up PDF)—guide
3/26Ferzan “Justifying Self-Defense,” intro. and §I (on JSTOR at 30040369, pp. 711-728)—guide
3/28  ibid., §§II-III.B (on JSTOR at 30040369, pp. 728-739)—guide
3/30  ibid., §§III.C-IV (on JSTOR at 30040369, pp. 739-749)—guide
4/2Fletcher “Fairness and Utility in Tort Theory,” §§I-II.A (on JSTOR at 1339623, pp. 537-551)—guide
4/4  ibid., §§II.B-III (on JSTOR at 1339623, pp. 551-564)—guide
4/6  ibid., §§IV-V (on JSTOR at 1339623, pp. 564-573)—guide
4/9Craswell “Contract Law, Default Rules, and the Philosophy of Promising,” intro. and §I (on JSTOR at 1289110, pp. 489-503)—guide
4/11(ppr2 due) ibid., §II (on JSTOR at 1289110, pp. 503-516)—guide
4/13  ibid., §§III and concl. (on JSTOR at 1289110, pp. 516-529)—guide
4/16Grotius sels. from Grotius on the Rights of War and Peace: An Abridged Translation. (1up PDF, 2up PDF)—guide
4/18Hart The Concept of Law, ch. X §§ 1-3—guide
4/20  ibid., §§ 4-5—guide
4/23Buchanan “Recognitional Legitimacy and the State System,” §§I-III (on JSTOR at 2672825, pp. 46-62)—guide
4/25Naticchia “Recognition and Legitimacy: A Reply to Buchanan, ” §§I-II, sels. from §III (on JSTOR at 2672858, pp. 242-253, 257)—guide
4/27Buchanan “Rule-Governed Institutions versus Act-Consequentialism: A Rejoinder to Naticchia,” §§I-III, sel. from §IV (on JSTOR at 2672859, pp. 258-266)—guide
5/1 final exam (Tues., 9:00 a.m.)