Violence against women as political (content warning: explicit discussion of very specific acts of violence and domestic abuse)

Kate Manne, Eric Schneiderman and the meaning of strangulation (op ed piece)

Steve Albrecht, Strangulation and domestic violence murders

Felon disenfranchisement

Uggen Manza - Political consequences of felon disenfranchisement.pdf

Criminal defense

Abbe Smith, The difference in criminal defense

The whole paper is really interesting, but the section entitled "The argument from the inside out" (page 112) is especially relevant to our class; she says that lawyers who don't commit to fully defending each client will not be able to do a good job on the particular clients who most need defense.

More on collective action problems

Julia Nefsky, Consequentialism and the Problem of Collective Harm: A Reply to Kagan (you should be able to access and download the the full text on campus)

Julia Nefsky, How you can help, without making a difference

Democracy and authority

California governor decides to halt all executions in California despite the voters recently having voted in favor of continuing the use of the death penalty

Externalism and Subjectivism

Here are two readings arguing for externalism about moral beliefs. Harman doesn't use that term, but that's the view she argues for. Both authors for some reason focus on cases where people have some credence, but not full beliefs, in false moral views (often called "moral uncertainty") but their focus on this is largely due to sociological reasons. There's nothing in their arguments that does not also apply to moral beliefs in general.

Brian Weatherson, Running risks morally

Elizabeth Harman

Here are two readings on subjectivism (and also against Prosepctivism). One is a brief-ish overview of some arguments for subjectivism. I cut this out of a longer, unfinished paper of mind (the structure is a little weird because of that). It focuses on descriptive beliefs. You might think about whether these same arguments apply to moral beliefs. The other is a longer paper by Holly Smith giving different, but very interesting, arguments against Prospectivism.

Reading on subjectivism

Holly Smith, The moral clout of reasonable beliefs