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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 Written by established experts in the field and emerging scholars, it contains essays previously unpublished in academic books or journals.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.
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 Written by established experts in the field and emerging scholars, it contains essays previously unpublished in academic books or journals.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.
Carl Knight and Zofia Stemplowska: Introduction
1: Richard J. Arneson: Luck Egalitarianism - A Primer
2: Larry Temkin: 1. Justice, Equality, Fairness, Desert, Rights,
Free Will, Responsibility, and Luck
3: Marc Fleurbaey: Four Approaches to Equal Opportunity
4: Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen: Luck Egalitarianism and Group
Responsibility
5: Zofia Stemplowska: Responsibility and Respect: Reconciling Two
Egalitarian Visions
6: Matt Matravers: Mad, Bad, or Faulty? Desert in Distributive and
Retributive Justice
7: Carl Knight: Responsibility, Desert, and Justice
8: Peter Vallentyne: Responsibility and False Beliefs
9: Susan Hurley: The Public Ecology of Responsibility
10: Avner de-Shalit and Jonathan Wolff: The Apparent Asymmetry of
Responsibility
11: David Miller: Taking Up the Slack? Responsibility and Justice
in Situations of Partial Compliance
12: Shlomi Segall: Luck Prioritarian Justice in Health
13: Norman Daniels: Individual and Social Responsibility for
Health
Bibliography
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.
`The essays in this collection illustrate the range of ways in
which considerations of responsibility might be relevant to
distributive justice, beyond narrow formulations of luck
egalitarianism, and, as such, should be of interest to a wide range
of readers ... the collection raises interesting questions over the
correct characterization of luck egalitarianism, as well as over
the relevance of economics and empirical findings to debates
over
responsibility-sensitive justice'
Emily McTernan, Economics and Philosophy
`The scope of the collection and the contributors' careful,
rigorous discussions make this a very valuable contribution to the
debate.
'
Kristin Voigt, Ethical Perspectives
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