Distributive Justice (PGT) PHIL5114

  • Academic Session: 2024-25
  • School: School of Humanities
  • Credits: 20
  • Level: Level 5 (SCQF level 11)
  • Typically Offered: Either Semester 1 or Semester 2
  • Available to Visiting Students: No
  • Collaborative Online International Learning: No

Short Description

This course introduces students to some major contemporary theories of distributive justice. It allows them to scrutinize, compare, and assess those theories, and to consider their application to questions of intra- and international institutional design.

Timetable

16 x 1hr lectures

4 x 1hr seminars over 10 weeks as scheduled on MyCampus

Requirements of Entry

Standard entry to Master's at College level

Excluded Courses

PHIL4054

Co-requisites

None.

Assessment

2 x essay (2,500 words each)

Course Aims

This course aims to:

■ Familiarize students with the philosophical study of contemporary theories of distributive justice, including different varieties of egalitarianism, libertarianism, sufficientarianism and prioritarianism, and different views concerning the proper currency of distributive justice;

■ Develop students' ability to criticise and develop their own theories of distributive justice;

■ Apply both established and students' own views on distributive justice to questions of intra- and international institutional design.

Intended Learning Outcomes of Course

By the end of this course students will be able to:

■ Explain the content of a number of contemporary theories of distributive justice, including different varieties of egalitarianism, libertarianism, sufficientarianism and prioritarianism, and different views concerning the proper currency of distributive justice;

■ Compare and evaluate these theories;

■ Apply these theories to real-world political and economic policies and institutions;

■ Communicate their own political philosophical ideas and arguments clearly and effectively.

Minimum Requirement for Award of Credits

Students must submit at least 75% by weight of the components (including examinations) of the course's summative assessment.