Members of the interdisciplinary research group “Need-Based Justice and Distribution Procedures”, funded by the German Research Foundation, have summarized the results of more than six years of research in the volume “Priority of Needs? An Informed Theory of Need-Based Justice”, edited by Bernhard Kittel and Stefan Traub. The research group’s mission statement reads: The objective…
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Hot Off The Press: “Oxford Studies in Experimental Philosophy – Volume 5”
Volume 5 of the “Oxford Studies in Experimental Philosophy”, edited by Joshua Knobe and Shaun Nichols, just hit the shelves! It comprises a total of 16 chapters on no less than 480 pages. See below for the table of contents. Literature Knobe, Joshua, and Shaun Nichols (eds.) (2024): Oxford Studies in Experimental Philosophy. Volume 5….
Hot Off The Press: “Empirische Studien zu Fragen der Bedarfsgerechtigkeit”
Needs are something that fundamentally defines us as human beings. In “Empirische Studien zu Fragen der Bedarfsgerechtigkeit” (Empirical Studies on Questions of Need-Based Distributive Justice) I recap a series of vignette studies that examine the role that needs play in dealing with problems of distributive justice. While needs are often underrepresented in discussions of distributive…