The Rule of Distributive Justice: Equality or Sufficiency
Description:
The workshop centers on the question of what "rule" or "pattern" of distribution should govern distributive justice. In particular, the workshop will be focused on two comprehensively different answers to this question: Equality and Sufficiency. In other words, does justice require that everyone is given the same amount of resources or welfare? Or rather that everyone is provided with enough (e.g. to live a decent human life)?
Furthermore, if equality is the most plausible answer to questions of distributive justice, then how are we to acquire this? On the other hand, if sufficiency yields a more convincing argument, then how should we define a threshold for the decent human life?
The workshop will focus on these questions by invoking insights from recent political philosophy. It seeks to offer its participants a thorough presentation and discussion of the most plausible outlines and limitations of egalitarian and sufficientarian theory and thereby aims to serve as a framework for further discussion on distributive justice.
The workshop is of interest for academics working within normative or political philosophy, political science and law and who have an interest in distributive justice.
Time and place:
June 5-6, 2012
Aarhus University
Confirmed speakers:
Andrew Williams
Paula Casal
Carl Knight
Axel Gosseries
Simon Caney
Other participants:
Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen
Søren Flinch Midtgaard
David V. Axelsen
Andreas Brøgger Albertsen
Lasse Nielsen
Robert Huseby
Robert van der Veen
Registration:
Registration is free. To register send an email to lassen@ps.au.dk no later than May 18th incl. information on whether you wish to present a paper. Please enclose an abstract of no more than 250 words of the paper you want to present. Note that there are a limited number of places for presentations.
Submission of papers:
Full papers of no more than 6,000 words should be submitted to lassen@ps.au.dk no later than May 30, 2012.
Organisers:
Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen, David V. Axelsen and Lasse Nielsen
Nordic Network on Political Ethics
Queries:
Lasse Nielsen: lassen@ps.au.dk
