Reading group on Amartya Sen’s “The Idea of Justice”?

Great suggestion Blain. You can count me in!

Cheers,
Colin

Sounds like a great idea.

Excuse my ignorace, but would this be an online reading group?

I would love to be in on this.

Sounds good - I would try and participate.

An appealing idea.

Hi Blain,

I’m happy to participate, but I wouldn’t want to sign up to be responsible for three chapters - that’s just more than I could manage in the second semester. Sorry, but realistically I think I should limit myself to being responsible for just one chapter.

Cheers,
Jon

No worries - you weren’t being presumptuous, it’s just that the second semester will be busy for me and I didn’t want to over-commit myself.

Cheers,
Jon

Count me in, though if we end up with more ‘posters’ than chapters I would cede my spot to someone else, and just participate via the comments section.

I’m interested in participating, but I have not participated in a reading group here before, so I’d appreciate a brief summary of the rules (especially if you would be expecting me to have something clever to say about one or more chapters).

Best,

Peter

P.S. I’ve been lurking for a while, and just became a full-fledged member. Hello all!

I’m in exactly the same position as Peter. I was planning on reading this anyway, and getting a chance to talk it over here sounds great.

Charles

I think I’d be interested in participating as well, although I think I couldn’t really do more than a chapter - and like Peter, would find it helpful if I could have some guidelines about what sort of thing would be expected of me.

I would be interested in participating in this reading group.

Colleen

Generally what happens is that one person posts some discussion of a chapter. (Probably for this book, we would need to move fairly quickly since there are 18 chapters, so maybe one chapter a week?) Then everyone else comments on the discussion. That’s really it. One thing I would suggest though is that if we start in January, then people try to read the book in advance of that. It can get difficult reading a book at the same time as keeping up with the discussion of it.

I’m interested in participating, but as a graduate student I don’t have posting privileges, so that might make me ineligible for being the main commentator for a chapter.

Hello Blain,

I’d very much like to participate. It’s a great idea.

Alex

Ditto what Derek Bowman said.

After the Sen reading group, I’d be keen to have a group on Avishai Margalit’s new book, On Compromise and Rotten Compromises. It should be out in a month or two, and promises to be an important work in an area of moral and political philosophy that has not received the attention it deserves.

Re: graduate students leading discussion on chapters, there’s no reason why that is ruled out. People should contact Blain if they are interested in presenting, and then whatever allocation of chapters to people makes sense for the reading group as a whole will happen.

I’m interested.

I’m game. Sign me up.

I’d also like to participate, if there’s still room for one more.

I’d like to be included as a recipient of the email message you mentioned in the previous post. thanks very much

I see you’re all set in terms of participants, but if someone backs out, count me in as a substitute.

I’m interested, please include me on any email list.

I would like to join.