Justice, Equality and Constructivism: Essays on G. A. Cohen's Rescuing Justice and Equality / Edition 1

by Brian Feltham

Overview

This collection critically engages with a number of recurrent themes from the work of G.A. Cohen, and most especially with arguments and positions advanced in his Rescuing Justice and Equality.

• A critical discussion of the work of the contemporary political theorist G.A. Cohen, an egalitarian and a critic of John Rawls
• Offers a critical perspective on his significant work on equality and constructivism, including his eagerly anticipated new book Rescuing Justice and Equality
• The contributors to this volume are noted for their own work on these topics
• Challenges Cohen’s view of the centrality of equality to justice, of the scope for free choice of occupation and economic incentives, as well as his view that fundamental principles of justice are insensitive to facts

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781405191753
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	07/07/2009
Series:	Ratio Special Issues , #3
Pages:	138
Sales rank:	790,642
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Brian Feltham was educated at University College London and Oxford, and now lectures at the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Reading. Prior to this he helped orchestrate a major three-year research project into ‘Impartiality and Partiality in Ethics’ at the Philosophy Department at Reading. He has published papers in ethics and political philosophy.

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Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors vi

Acknowledgements vii

1 Introduction Brian Feltham 1

2 Justice is not Equality Richard J. Arneson 5

3 Inequality, Injustice and Levelling Down Thomas Christiano Will Braynen 26

4 Inequality, Incentives and the Interpersonal Test Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen 55

5 Freedom of Occupational Choice Michael Otsuka 74

6 Cohen to the Rescue! Thomas Pogge 88

7 Justice, Incentives and Constructivism Andrew Williams 110

Index 127