Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 19th, 2011
Good to see you have given up on your appeal to authority. What does Harvard have compared to Notre Dame anyway? But now I am a little puzzled. In your appeal-to-authority days, you asked: Why should we go with Notre Dame’s Sterba and his deep egalitarianism, when we can have Harvard’s Rawls with his acceptance […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 6th, 2010
I don’t think you are following my argument closely enough. You come at it with respect to the conflict between rich and poor. Fine. I assume then that you accept the first part of the argument against egoism and that we are imagining the rich and poor to be arguing within morality. It is here […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 6th, 2010
Dear Josh, I enjoyed very much reading some of your work and participating in the workshop with you via teleconference this past Friday. I am hoping we can discuss our common concerns a bit further. I think can think of two ways to proceed. First, you can tell me in what way your philosophical argument […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 30th, 2010
Martha Nussbaum and Jim Sterba share strong commitments to feminism and to policy relevant philosophical reflection. See Nussbaum, “Women and Human Development, The Capabilties Approach.” Cambridge. 2000. Along with colleague Amartya Sen, she has proposed a cross-culturally valid list of basic human capabilities: •1. Able to live to the end of a human life of […]