Topics in Political Philosophy

Harvard FAS

This course is a graduate seminar in political philosophy. Topics vary from year to year. In Spring 2027, the seminar will focus on select problems in non-ideal theory, understood as problems in thinking about what to do when our political life is not going well, morally speaking. Topics will be drawn from three broad areas of inquiry: the non-ideal political theory of the climate crisis; moral standards for policing and incarceration; and responses to growing economic inequality.Enrollment…