Desert and Justice [Paperback]

Serena Olsaretti brings together new essays by leading moral and political philosophers on the nature of desert and justice, their relations with each other and with other values. Does justice require that individuals get what they deserve? What exactly is involved in giving people what they deserve? Does treating people as responsible agents require that we make room for desert in the economic sphere, as well as in the attribution of moral praise and blame and in the dispensing of punishment? How does respecting desert square with considerations of equality? Does desert, like justice, have a comparative aspect? These are questions of great practical as well as theoretical importance: this book is unique in offering a sustained examination of them from various perspectives.

Introduction: debating desert and justice,Serena Olsaretti
1. Comparative and non-comparative desert,David Miller
2. Desert: individualistic and holistic,Thomas Hurka
3. Distributive justice and economic desert,Samuel Scheffler
4. Comparative desert,Shelley Kagan
5. On the comparative element of justice,Owen McLeod
6. Return to Twin Peaks: on the intrinsic moral significance of equality,Fred Feldman
7. Brute luck equality and desert,Peter Vallentyne
8. Distributive justice and compensatory desert,Serena Olsaretti
9. Effort and imagination,George Sher
10. The dilemma of desert,Jonathan Wolff
11. The Smart theory of moral responsibility and desert,Richard Arneson
Introduction: debating desert and justice,Serena Olsaretti
1. Comparative and non-comparative desert,David Miller
2. Desert: individualistic and holistic,Thomas Hurka
3. Distributive justice and economic desert,Samuel Scheffler
4. Comparative desert,Shelley Kagan
5. On the comparative element of justice,Owen McLeod
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