SYLLABUS

Political Philosophy PhD Seminar - JPD075

Institute of Political Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague

Instructors: Jakub Franěk, Ph.D., Janusz Salamon, Ph.D.

Prerequisites: Onlydoctoral students in political science from Charles University can participate

PLACE: Nove Butovice campus [due to COVID restrictions, at least until 15 November the seminars will take an ONLINE form on ZOOM platform. The links will be published on this webpage in due course]

TIME: Four 3-hour sessions per semester, Wednesda, 11am-2pm

COURSE DESCRIPTION & COURSE CONTENTS:

This seminar in political philosophy that spans over the entire academic year (with a grade being awarded at the end of the summer semester) is designed exclusively for doctoral students in political science whose doctoral research can benefit from detailed exploration of the current scholarly debate in political philosophy/political theory. Therefore the choice of particular topics (and the relevant readings) to be discussed during eight 3-hour long seminar meetings is always determined by considering the subject matter of the doctoral projects of the students who will participate in the seminar.

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COURSE TOPICS

Since the acutal topics discussed at individua seminar meetings depend largely on the research focus of ndividual doct oral students, the following list of topics is only illustative.

The choice of particular topics (and the relevant readings) to be
discussed during seminar meetings is partly determined by considering the subject matter of the doctoral projects
of the students who will participate in the seminar.
1. What is political theory/philosophy?
2. Rawls‘ justice as fairness
3. Nozick’s entitlement theory
4. Egalitarian justice
5. What is (a) crisis of democracy?
6. Deliberative democracy and its shortcomings
7. Radical and plural democracy of Laclau and Mouffe
8. Aversive democracy
9. Democratic proceduralism revisited (Urbinati)
10. Democracy and representation

COURSE GRADING

8 Research Reports (1 per each seminar) 35%

1 Research Paper