Responsibility and Distributive Justice

by Carl Knight, Zofia Stemplowska

Overview

Under what conditions are people responsible for their choices and the outcomes of those choices? How could such conditions be fostered by liberal societies? Should what people are due as a matter of justice depend on what they are responsible for? For example, how far should healthcare provision depend on patients' past choices? What values would be realized and which hampered by making justice sensitive to responsibility? Would it give people what they deserve? Would it advance or hinder equality?

The explosion of philosophical interest in such questions has been fuelled by increased focus on individual responsibility in political debates. Political philosophers, especially egalitarians, have responded to such developments by attempting to map out the proper place for responsibility in theories of justice. Responsibility and Distributive Justice both reflects on these recent developments in normative political theory and moves the debate forwards. Written by established experts in the field and emerging scholars, it contains essays previously unpublished in academic books or journals. It will be of interest to researchers and students in political and moral philosophy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199565801
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	04/15/2011
Pages:	318
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Carl Knight is Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Thought at the University of Glasgow and is also a Senior Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg. He has published several articles on responsibility and distributive justice and is the author of Luck Egalitarianism: Equality, Responsibility, and Justice (Edinburgh University Press, 2009).

Zofia Stemplowska is Lecturer in Political Theory at the University of Oxford. She has published articles on responsibility and distributive justice and on other topics.

Table of Contents

Introduction, Carl Knight and Zofia Stemplowska1. Luck Egalitarianism - A Primer, Richard J. Arneson2. Justice, Equality, Fairness, Desert, Rights, Free Will, Responsibility, and Luck, Larry Temkin3. Four Approaches to Equal Opportunity, Marc Fleurbaey4. Luck Egalitarianism and Group Responsibility, Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen5. Responsibility and Respect: Reconciling Two Egalitarian Visions, Zofia Stemplowska6. Mad, Bad, or Faulty? Desert in Distributive and Retributive Justice, Matt Matravers7. Responsibility, Desert, and Justice, Carl Knight8. Responsibility and False Beliefs, Peter Vallentyne9. The Public Ecology of Responsibility, Susan Hurley10. The Apparent Asymmetry of Responsibility, Avner de-Shalit and Jonathan Wolff11. Taking Up the Slack? Responsibility and Justice in Situations of Partial Compliance, David Miller12. Luck Prioritarian Justice in Health, Shlomi Segall13. Individual and Social Responsibility for Health, Norman DanielsBibliography

Editorial Reviews

"Responsibility and Distributive Justice is a collection of 13 new, high-quality essays written by some of the most well-known philosophers working on responsibility-sensitive egalitarianism or, more generally, in the field of distributive justice."—Carina Fourie, Philosophy in Review

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