Justice, Equality and Constructivism Essays on G. A. Cohen's Rescuing Justice and Equality

by Feltham, Brian

• ISBN13: 9781405191753
• ISBN10: 1405191759
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-07-07
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

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

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors	p. vi
Acknowledgements	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Justice is not Equality	p. 5
Inequality, Injustice and Levelling Down	p. 26
Inequality, Incentives and the Interpersonal Test	p. 55
Freedom of Occupational Choice	p. 74
Cohen to the Rescue!	p. 88
Justice, Incentives and Constructivism	p. 110
Index	p. 127
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