Applied Ethics

In these notes, all the topics in the 'Disability' part of the Applied Ethics module are covered including outlines of various accounts of disability and evaluation of these, as well as debates regarding the value of disability. Naturalistic Accounts (inc. Species-Norm, Negative Departure from Norm) Social Constructionist Accounts (inc. Social Model, Social Exclusion Model) Solidarity Account (Elizabeth Barnes) Marginalised Functioning Bad-Difference View Mere-Difference View / Value-Neu...

Does disability have a value? Is it always a bad thing? If it has some negative consequences, but is not overall bad is it a bad-difference or a mere-difference? These notes cover: Bad-Difference views of disability - Impact of disability on wellbeing - Objections Mere-Difference view of disability - Local/global goods and bads - Good / bad / neutral simplicter - Barnes' Value-Neutral model - Evaluation Issues of Causing & Removing Disability in relation to the value of disabili...

Notes on the various social constructionist accounts of disability including: The Social Model The Social Exclusion Model Haslangerian Account of Disability Barnes' Solidarity Account Marginalised Functioning

Intersectionality of race, gender and class in the prison industrial complex, focusing on Angela Davis' critique of Foucault's power analysis: Racialisation of Punishment - Punishment in slavery - After slavery's 'abolition' - Criminalisation of POC communities Gendering of Punishment - Gendered character of punishment - Notion Feminine criminality - Incarceration beyond the prison system - Hyper-sexualisation of female prisoners Intersection of Gender & Race in Punishment ...

Foucault - Modern disciplinary power - 3 techniques of control - Analysis of power The Panopticon - Bentham / Foucault on the Panopticon - Discipline - Normalisation - Shift in power

Value of criminal law - Punishment - Compensation - Issues regarding who has the authority to punish - Justification of punishment Functions of criminal law - Retributivism - Prevention - Communication Constrains of Justified Punishment - Absolute Proportionality - Relative Proportionality

Notes from readings done to supplement the lecture notes for this topic including the function of criminal law and issues of gender and race in the prison industrial complex. Sources: Legal Punishment - Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy Are Prisons Obsolete? - Angela Davis

These notes consist of the topics in the 'Criminal Justice' part of the Applied Ethics module including the function of criminal law, Foucault's power analysis and intersectionality in the prison industrial complex. Function of Criminal Law (retributivism, deterrence, communication) Evolution of Punishment (inc. Enlightenment values, reforms, slavery) Foucault's Analysis of Modern Disciplinary Power Bentham's Panopticon Angela Davis' Critique of Foucault's Analysis Gendered Character of ...