Hillel Steiner Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Manchester Resident at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften: November 2010, April 2011, October 2011Research 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 SteinerMain areas of research: Contemporary philosophical work on freedom, rights and social justiceSelected publications:
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 |