Paul Bingaman

Paul Bingaman

  • House: Quincy House
  • Concentration: Philosophy Concentrator with a secondary in Economics
  • Other concentrations considered: Government
  • Courses taken: Humanities 10, Philosophy of Law (Phil 11), Reclaiming Argument: Logic (Gened 1051), The True and The Good (Phil 3), Justice and Politics of Cultural Memory (Phil 180), Tutorial I and II (Phil 97 + 98), Historical Injustice (Phil 177i), Groups and Political Philosophy (Phil 176G), Buddhist Philosophy (Phil 192), Race and Justice (Gened 1146), Senior Thesis (Phil 99)
  • Thesis: What is owed by states for past, enduring, and ongoing injustice? Making a Reparative/Restorative Justice argument using Rawls' Distributive Justice view and Backward-looking reparative justice to mitigate the material effects of historical injustice and to repair the moral relationship between harmed parties and the state.
  • Anything else: Much of my research has been conducted in conjunction with the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship.