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CLS 4990-04 Spring 2020 Hybrid course War and the Military: Global, National, and California Pers... more CLS 4990-04 Spring 2020 Hybrid course War and the Military: Global, National, and California Perspectives is a course that aims to develop your critical thinking skills in the context of a critical examination of the way that the United States prepares and conducts war, at home and abroad, now and into the future. More specifically, this course will ask you to reflect on the moral and social dimensions of U.S militarism. This examination will help you to develop your own moral understanding of the world and, hopefully, help you to better shape the ways that you participate in making its future. We will explore some major topics in moral, social, and political philosophy, while developing a critical discourse that requires respect, self-reflection, and a willingness to challenge firmly-held beliefs.

PHL 4750 Fall 2019 Hybrid Course Global Justice is a course that aims to develop your critical th... more PHL 4750 Fall 2019 Hybrid Course Global Justice is a course that aims to develop your critical thinking skills by exploring the moral dimensions of the present global order and our participation in it. More specifically, we will examine the ways our global social order is shaped, find connections between our everyday practices and macro-level processes, and imagine other ways that the social world could be structured. This examination will help you to develop your own ethical understanding and help you to better shape your social world. We will explore major topics in moral, social, and political philosophy, while developing a critical discourse that requires respect, self-reflection, and a willingness to challenge firmly-held beliefs.

We live in a complicated, messy, and unjust world, despite being expressly committed to a world o... more We live in a complicated, messy, and unjust world, despite being expressly committed to a world of law and order. Legal systems provide society with rules, organize complex social behaviors, project authority, and, ultimately, utilize coercion and force to provide order. Law is taken as a social mechanism to escape arbitrary power and partiality in our reasoning about coercion and force. But what even is law? Why should, if at all, we take what the law says seriously? What is the relationship between law and morality? How has our legal system functioned, developed, and shaped current social conditions? What should we think about current legal practice, decisions, and reasoning? This class tackles these questions toward the aim of developing our own understanding of how to make the world more just.

Global Justice is a course that aims to develop your critical thinking skills in the context of a... more Global Justice is a course that aims to develop your critical thinking skills in the context of an exploration of the moral dimensions of our present global order and our participation in it. More specifically, this course will ask you to examine the ways our global social order is shaped, to find connections between our everyday practices and macro-level processes, and to imagine other ways that this social world could be structured. This examination will help you to develop your own ethical understanding and, hopefully, help you to better shape the ways that you interact with your social world. We will explore some major topics in moral, social, and political philosophy while developing a critical discourse that requires respect, self-reflection, and a willingness to challenge firmly-held beliefs.

Race and Racism in Western Thought is a course that aims to develop your critical thinking skills... more Race and Racism in Western Thought is a course that aims to develop your critical thinking skills in the context of an exploration of the moral and social dimensions of race in the United States. We will explore some major topics in moral, social, and political philosophy while developing a critical discourse that requires respect, self-reflection, and a willingness to challenge firmly-held beliefs.

Epistemologies of Resistance is a course that aims to develop your critical thinking skills in th... more Epistemologies of Resistance is a course that aims to develop your critical thinking skills in the context of an exploration of the epistemic dimensions of social injustice. We will explore some major topics in social epistemology and in moral, social, and political philosophy, more broadly, while developing a critical discourse that requires respect, self-reflection, and a willingness to challenge firmly-held beliefs.

Ethics, Environment, and Society is a course that aims to develop your critical thinking skills b... more Ethics, Environment, and Society is a course that aims to develop your critical thinking skills by engaging central moral questions about how we ought to interact with other people, with nonhuman animals, and with our natural and social environments. We will explore some of the major topics in environmental philosophy, ethics, and justice, while developing a critical discourse that requires respect, self-reflection, and a willingness to challenge firmly-held beliefs.

Political Philosophy is a course that aims to develop your critical thinking skills by asking you... more Political Philosophy is a course that aims to develop your critical thinking skills by asking you to examine and assess the current shape of your social world. To do so, we will engage the theories and views of canonical thinkers in Western political philosophy. We will explore major topics in moral, social, and political philosophy within the context of developing a critical discourse that requires respect, self-reflection, and a willingness to challenge firmly-held beliefs.

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This course aims to develop your critical thinking skills by engaging central metaphysical, epist... more This course aims to develop your critical thinking skills by engaging central metaphysical, epistemological, and moral questions in social and political philosophy. We will explore some of the central topics in contemporary social and political philosophy, while engaging in a critical discourse that requires respect, self-reflection, and a willingness to challenge firmly-held beliefs.

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Radical Philosophy Review

In Women’s Activism, Feminism, and Social Justice, Margaret McLaren develops and argues for a new... more In Women’s Activism, Feminism, and Social Justice, Margaret McLaren develops and argues for a new theoretical framework, the feminist social justice approach, that can guide ongoing feminist transnational solidarity projects. I briefly map out the main lines of argumentation in McLaren’s book and highlight some of the valuable contributions these arguments make to the intersecting sub-fields of global ethics, global justice, development ethics, and feminist philosophy. I then note two critical thoughts on the book. First, I argue that McLaren’s concessions to rights discourse as a valuable tool for transformative activism undermine and potentially even contradict her own strong critique of rights discourse. Second, I argue that McLaren doesn’t explicitly or develop the latent social epistemology of her feminist social justice approach and discussions of “training” and “education” potentially run counter to this promising but again latent social epistemology.

individualism focuses on the voluntarist dimension of social agency: the agent, abstracted from h... more individualism focuses on the voluntarist dimension of social agency: the agent, abstracted from her social situation, comes by her ends by choosing them through a process of rational deliberation. The faculty that enables rational deliberation is pre-social; this faculty is 35 In fact, the abstract individualist view must focus on the voluntarist dimension of agency. The cognitive interpretation of agency claims that the ends that agents pursue in social contexts are already determined and that

Feminist Philosophy Quarterly, 2019

Critiques of Western feminists’ attempts to extend claims about gender injustice to the global co... more Critiques of Western feminists’ attempts to extend claims about gender injustice to the global context highlighted a dilemma facing Western feminists, what I call the global gender justice dilemma. In response to this dilemma, Alison M. Jaggar argues that Western feminists should turn our attention away from trying to resolve it and, instead, toward examination of our own complicity in the processes that produce injustice. I suggest that this kind of approach is helpful in responding to an additional dilemma that confronts the Western feminist, namely the epistemic dilemma. Western feminists can speak for women of the global South and run the risk of distorting those women’s experience and further silencing their voices, or we can refuse to speak and abdicate our responsibilities to address injustice. I argue that we should address this dilemma not by trying to resolve it but by examining our role in the reproduction of epistemically unjust practices. To explain this response, I off...

Journal of Social Philosophy, 2018

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