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Egalitarianism
New Essays on the Nature and Value of Equality
Edited by Nils Holtug and Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen
352 pages
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234x156mm
978-0-19-929643-9
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Hardback
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30 November 2006
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- New work on a topic of great intellectual and practical importance
- Brings analytic clarity and rigour to bear in the debate on equality
- All but one of the essays are specially written for this volume
- Contributors are all leading philosophers/political theorists
Egalitarianism, the view that equality matters, attracts a great deal of attention amongst contemporary political theorists. And yet it has turned out to be surprisingly difficult to provide a fully satisfactory egalitarian theory. The cutting-edge articles in Egalitarianism move the debate forward. They are written by some of the leading political philosophers in the field.
Recent issues in the debate over equality are given careful consideration: the distinction between 'telic' and 'deontic' egalitarianism; prioritarianism and the so-called 'levelling down objection' to egalitarianism; whether egalitarian justice should have
'whole lives' or some subset thereof as its temporal focus; the implications of Scanlon's contractualist account of the value of choice for egalitarian justice; and the question of whether non-human animals fall within the scope of egalitarianism and if so, what the implications are. Numerous 'classic' issues receive a new treatment too: how egalitarianism can be justified and how, if at all, this value should be combined with other values such as desert, liberty and sufficiency; how to define the 'worst off' for the purposes of Rawls' difference principle; Elizabeth Anderson's feminist account of 'equality of relations'; how equality applies to risky choices and, in particular, whether it is justifiable to restrict the freedom of suppliers who wish to release goods that confer different
levels of risk on consumers, depending on their ability to pay. Finally, the implications of egalitarianism and prioritarianism for health care are scrutinized.
The contributors to the volume are: Richard Arneson, Linda Barclay, Thomas Christiano, Nils Holtug, Susan Hurley, Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen, Dennis McKerlie, Ingmar Persson, Bertil Tungodden, Peter Vallentyne, Andrew Williams, and Jonathan Wolff.Readership: Scholars and students of political and moral philosophy; political scientists; economists
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Edited by Nils Holtug, University of Copenhagen, and Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen, University of Copenhagen Contributors:
Nils Holtug
Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen
Thomas Christiano
Ingmar Persson
Dennis McKerlie
Bertil Tungodden
Peter Vallentyne
Linda Barclay
Peter Vallentyne
Andrew Williams
Richard J. Arneson
Jonathan Wolff
Susan Hurley
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"The editors of this book introduce its collection of essays as 'contributions to the ongoing project of developing an adequate egalitarian theory'(p.v) The book as a whole is indeed a valuable contribution, not only because of the high quality of its chapters, but also because it provides a complete and consistent overview of the hot issues in egalitarian philosophy... Such a brief review can only hint at the richness and high quality of these contributions by prominent authors in the field. This book should definitely be on the shelves of every egalitarian theorist." - Marc Fleurbaey, Theoria
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1: Nils Holtug and Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen: An introduction to contemporary egalitarianism
I. Foundations for equality
2: Thomas Christiano: A foundation for egalitarianism
3: Ingmar Persson: A defence of extreme egalitarianism
II. The nature of equality
4: Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen: The insignificance of the distinction between telic and deontic egalitarianism
5: Nils Holtug: Prioritarianism
6: Dennis McKerlie: Egalitarianism and the difference between interpersonal and intrapersonal judgments
7: Bertil Tungodden and Peter Vallentyne: Who are the least advantaged?
8: Linda Barclay: Feminist distributive justice and the relevance of equal relations
9: Peter Vallentyne: Of mice and men: equality and animals
III. Equality and other values
10: Andrew Williams: Liberty, liability, and contractualism
11: Richard J. Arneson: Desert and equality
IV. Applications
12: Jonathan Wolff: Market failure, common interests, and the Titanic puzzle
13: Susan Hurley: The 'what' and the 'how' of distributive justice and health
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