Fellows 2011

Hillel Steiner

Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Manchester

Resident at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften:

November 2010, April 2011, October 2011

Research topic at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften:

»The Just Price«

Project outline:

This project develops from my previous work on exploitation. It argues that the injustice of a market price is best understood as being due to prior curtailments of individuals’ rightful freedoms: that is, claims of unjust pricing are most coherently based upon counterfactual judgements concerning the price that would have been established had certain freedoms – of either the exploitee or some third party – not previously been curtailed. In the absence of those freedom-curtailing actions or policies, the maximum amount bid for whatever is being sold would be higher than it actually is. The model of just prices thereby deployed further implies fairly precise limitations on what can count as a just outcome of a bargaining process. (Hillel Steiner)

Funding of the stay:

»Justitia Amplificata. Rethinking Justice − Applied and Global«

Scholarly profile of Hillel Steiner

Main areas of research:

Contemporary philosophical work on freedom, rights and social justice

Selected publications:

»The Consequences of Choice«, Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie (forthcoming).
»The Global Fund: A Reply to Casal«, Journal of Moral Philosophy (forthcoming).
»Sharing Mother Natures Gifts: A Reply to Quong and Miller«, in: Journal of Political Philosophy, 19 (2011), 110–123.
Freedom: A Philosophical Anthology, ed. with I. Carter and M. Kramer, Oxford & Malden, Mass., Blackwell 2007.
Left-Libertarianism and Its Critics. The contemporary debate, ed. with Peter Vallentyne, London and New York: Palgrave 2000.
Freedom and Trade, 3 volumes, ed. with Gerraint Parry et al., London: Routledge 1998.
A Debate over Rights. Philosophical enquiries, with Matthew Kramer and Nigel Simmonds, Oxford: Clarendon Press 1998.
An Essay on Rights. Oxford: Blackwell 1996 (revised edition forthcoming at Clarendon Press, Oxford.

Hillel Steiner is a member of the editorial boards of the following academic periodicals:
Ethics, Social Philosophy & Policy, International Theory, Critical Review of International Social & Political Review

Institutional affiliations:

Fellow of the British Academy (elected 1999), memberships: American Philosophical Association, Aristotelian Society, Association for Legal and Social Philosophy, European Society for the History of Economic Thought, Political Studies Association, Society for Applied Philosophy, and the September Group

Hillel Steiner

Scholarly profile of Hillel Steiner

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