Project description
Critical Evaluation
These are the texts for the first summative assessment. Students should select one text and write a short 3000-word essay (with a 10% leeway; non-discursive footnotes do not count towards the word limit; and there is no need for a bibliography in this assessment) critically evaluating the argument(s) advanced therein.
1. George Klosko, Presumptive Benefit, Fairness, and Political Obligation, 16 Philosophy and Public Affairs (1987) 241.
2. Uwe Steinhoff, Torture The Case for Dirty Harry and against Alan Dershowitz, 23 Journal of Applied Philosophy (2006) 337.
3. Amyarta Sen, Elements of a Theory of Human Rights, 32 Philosophy and Public Affairs (2004) 315