Syllabus/Lecture topics

 

 

Note: The following are lecture topic notes, given by Dr. J G T Meeks, for her MPhil paper.  Web-links, and some introduction material (in 12 point font), have been added for reference.  Also, .doc links refer to printer friendly – MS Word – format files.*

 

Utilitarianism under attack     (.doc)

 

Challenged utilitarianism attempts defence     (.doc)

 

Sharing the cake: income distribution and equality     (.doc)

 

Capitalism, Socialism, freedom and equality     (.doc)                

 

On preference and principles     (.doc)

 

Some thoughts on whether R.E.P. should R.I.P.     (.doc)

 

Summary on preferences     (.doc)

 

On: preference/choice/self-interest/commitment     (.doc)

 

Abstraction     (.doc)

(how abstract can you get?)

 

Methodology mystery - I    (.doc)

 

Methodology mystery - II     (.doc)

 

Positive economics revalued     (.doc)

(the fact/value distinction in economics)

 

Regrouping on individualism     (.doc)

 

Rationality and expectations; Keynes’ analysis    (.doc)

 

Keynes’ argument: structure diagram     (.doc)

 

Popper and his critics     (.doc)

 

Paradigms and Progress     (.doc)

 

Kahneman: toward a science of well-being     (.pdf)

(Kahneman delivered the 2005 Marshall lectures)

 

Happiness     (.doc)

 

 

 

[*Notes for the topic on transitivity are missing; hence this topic is not listed here.]

 

 

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