By: Carl Knight (Editor), Zofia Stemplowska (Editor)

Hardcover

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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 Written by established experts in the field and emerging scholars, it contains essays previously unpublished in academic books or journals.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.

The scope of the collection and the contributors' careful, rigorous discussions make this a very valuable contribution to the debate. Kristin Voigt, Ethical Perspectives

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

ISBN: 9780199565801
ISBN-10: 0199565805
Audience: Tertiary; University or College
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 320
Published: 3rd March 2011
Dimensions (cm): 23.8 x 16.4  x 4.22
Weight (kg): 0.628