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Undergraduate Module Descriptor
PHL2118: Moral agency in social context
This module descriptor refers to the 2023/4 academic year.
Indicative Reading List
This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.
T. Bender (ed.) (1992) The antislavery debate: capitalism and abolitionism as a problem in historical interpretation
G. Cohen (2000) If You’re an egalitarian, how come you’re so rich?
M. Moody-Adams (1997) Fieldwork in familiar places: morality, culture, and philosophy.
N. Pleasants (2008) ‘Institutional wrongdoing and moral perception’ Journal of Social Philosophy 39 (1), 96–115.
N. Pleasants ‘Moral argument is not enough: The persistence of slavery and the emergence of abolition’, Philosophical Topics, vol 38 (1), 2010, 139-60