Born free and equal? : a philosophical inquiry into the nature of discrimination / Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lippert-Rasmussen, Kasper, 1964- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discrimination--Philosophy.

Discrimination.

Discrimination--Moral and ethical aspects.

Equality--Philosophy.

Equality.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

xii, 317 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2014]

Contents:

Part I The Concept of Discrimination

1 What Is Discrimination? 13

1 Introduction 13

2 Discrimination in the Generic Sense 14

3 Irrelevance Discrimination 22

4 The Moralized Concept of Discrimination 24

5 Group Discrimination 26

6 Social Salience 30

7 Because 36

8 Treatment 40

9 Summary 45

Appendix 1 Methodology 47

Appendix 2 Discrimination Skeptics: Oppression and Dominance 49

2 Indirect Discrimination 54

1 The Distinction between Direct and Indirect Discrimination 54

2 Altman's Definition 56

3 The No-Intention Condition 59

4 The Disadvantage Condition 61

5 The Disproportionateness Condition 65

6 Sufficient for Indirect Discrimination? 68

7 Direct vs. Indirect Discrimination 72

8 Conclusion 73

Appendix 1 Some Other Definitions of Indirect Discrimination 74

Appendix 2 Institutional and Structural Discrimination 77

3 Statistical Discrimination 79

1 Introduction 79

2 Statistical Discrimination vs. Nonstatistical Discrimination 81

3 Direct vs. Indirect, Statistical Discrimination 87

4 What Statistical Discrimination Is Not 89

5 Conclusion 94

Appendix: Genetic Discrimination and Social Salience 95

Part II The Wrongness of Discrimination

4 Mental-State-Based Accounts 103

1 Introduction 103

2 Some Common Accounts 105

3 Mental States and Permissibility 111

4 Different Mental-State Accounts 113

5 Alexander on Disrespect and Discrimination: The Falsehood Account 113

6 Alexander on Disrespect and Discrimination: The Comparative Falsehood Account 121

7 Alexander on Disrespect and Discrimination: The Irrational Comparative Falsehood Account 122

8 Conclusion 127

5 Objective-Meaning Accounts 129

1 Introduction 129

2 Hellman's Account: Demeaning Others 131

3 Some Challenges to Hellman's Account 134

4 Scanlon on Racial Discrimination and the Meaning of Actions 139

5 An Important Ambiguity 144

6 Some Worries About Scanlon's Account 146

7 The Moral Distinctiveness of Discrimination Based on Judgments of Inferiority 149

8 Conclusion 151

6 Harm-Based Accounts 153

1 Introduction 153

2 The Essentials of the Harm-Based Account 154

3 The Baseline Issue 157

4 The Metric of Harm 160

5 Some Challenges to the Harm-Based Account 163

6 A Desert-Prioritarian Account 165

7 Some Objections 170

8 A Test Case: Moral Wrongness of Indirect Discrimination 177

9 Conclusion 183

Appendix: Moreau on Deliberative Freedom and Discrimination 185

Part III Neutralizing Discrimination

7 Discrimination and the Aim of Proportional Representation 193

1 Introduction 193

2 The Simple View and Ambition-Sensitivity 196

3 The Counterfactual, Holistic View 202

4 Which Counterfactual Scenario? 204

5 Is Absence of Discrimination Necessary for Suitable Representation? 211

6 Second-Best Representational Aims 213

7 Conclusion 215

8 Discrimination in Punishment 217

1 Introduction 217

2 Loci of Legal Discrimination 219

3 Criteria vs. Indicators of Discrimination 221

4 The Pure Discrimination Case 224

5 The No-Complaint Argument 231

6 Conclusion 234

9 Reaction Qualifications 235

1 Introduction 235

2 Discounting Qualifications Based on Illegitimate Preferences 240

3 Refining Meritocracy 249

4 Illegitimate Preferences Not Disadvantaging Targeted Groups 253

5 Respect and Reaction Qualifications 257

6 Conclusion 260

10 Discrimination in the Private Sphere 261

1 Introduction 261

2 A Legal Duty to Engage in Wrongful Private Discrimination 266

3 A Legal Right to Engage in Wrongful Private Discrimination 266

4 A Legal Duty Not to Engage in Wrongful Private Discrimination 267

5 A Legal Duty or Permission to Engage in Private Discrimination That Is Not Wrongful 268

6 A Legal Duty Not to Engage in Private Discrimination That Is Not Wrongful 269

7 Conclusion 269

11 Racial Profiling 272

1 Introduction 272

2 A Right to Be Treated as an Individual 275

3 Unequal Treatment 278

4 Unfairness 279

5 The Making of Statistical Facts and the Justifiability of Statistical Discrimination 283

6 Putting the Argument to the Interpersonal Test 285

7 Noncomprehensively Justified? 293

8 Challenges 297

9 Conclusion 299.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780199796113

0199796114

OCLC:

849509516