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Zusatztext In a relatively new field of scholarship focused on thinking philosophically about discrimination, Lippert-Rasmussen's contribution stands out for its comprehensiveness, its detail and its high quality. Informationen zum Autor Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen (D.Phil., Oxford) is professor of political theory at the University of Aarhus, Denmark. He works primarily in political and moral philosophy and has published in journals such as Journal of Political Philosophy, Ethics, Philosophy and Public Affairs, Philosophical Studies, Economics and Philosophy, and The Journal of Ethics. He is an associate editor of Ethics and chair of Society for Applied Philosophy. Klappentext This book addresses these three issues: What is discrimination?; What makes it wrong?; What should be done about wrongful discrimination? It argues: that there are different concepts of discrimination; that discrimination is not always morally wrong and that when it is, it is so primarily because of its harmful effects. Zusammenfassung This book addresses these three issues: What is discrimination?; What makes it wrong?; What should be done about wrongful discrimination? It argues: that there are different concepts of discrimination; that discrimination is not always morally wrong and that when it is, it is so primarily because of its harmful effects. INTRODUCTION ; 1. THE QUESTIONS ; 2. THE APPROACH ; 3. OVERVIEW OF THE BOOK ; PART I: THE CONCEPT OF DISCRIMINATION ; CHAPTER 1: WHAT IS DISCRIMINATION? ; 1. INTRODUCTION ; 2. DISCRIMINATION IN THE GENERIC SENSE ; 3. IRRELEVANCE DISCRIMINATION ; 4. THE MORALIZED CONCEPT OF DISCRIMINATION ; 5. GROUP DISCRIMINATION ; 6. SOCIAL SALIENCE ; 7. BECAUSE ; 8. TREATMENT ; 9. SUMMARY ; APPENDIX 1: METHODOLOGY ; APPENDIX 2: DISCRIMINATION SKEPTICS: OPPRESSION AND DOMINANCE ; CHAPTER 2: INDIRECT DISCRIMINATION ; 1. THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN DIRECT AND INDIRECT DISCRIMINATION ; 2. ALTMAN'S DEFINITION ; 3. THE NO-INTENTION CONDITION ; 4. THE DISADVANTAGE CONDITION ; 5. THE DISPROPORTIONATENESS CONDITION ; 6. SUFFICIENT FOR INDIRECT DISCRIMINATION? ; 7. DIRECT VS. INDIRECT DISCRIMINATION ; 8. CONCLUSION ; APPENDIX 1: SOME OTHER DEFINITIONS OF INDIRECT DISCRIMINATION ; APPENDIX 2: INSTITUTIONAL AND STRUCTURAL DISCRIMINATION ; CHAPTER 3: STATISTICAL DISCRIMINATION ; 1. INTRODUCTION ; 2. STATISTICAL DISCRIMINATION VS. NON-STATISTICAL DISCRIMINATION ; 3. DIRECT VS. INDIRECT, STATISTICAL DISCRIMINATION ; 4. WHAT STATISTICAL DISCRIMINATION IS NOT ; 5. CONCLUSION ; APPENDIX: GENETIC DISCRIMINATION AND SOCIAL SALIENCE ; PART II: THE WRONGNESS OF DISCRIMINATION ; CHAPTER 4: MENTAL STATE BASED ACCOUNTS ; 1. INTRODUCTION ; 2. SOME COMMON ACCOUNTS ; 3. MENTAL STATES AND PERMISSIBILITY ; 4. DIFFERENT MENTAL STATE ACCOUNTS ; 5. ALEXANDER ON DISRESPECT AND DISCRIMINATION: THE FALSEHOOD ACCOUNT ; 6. ALEXANDER ON DISRESPECT AND DISCRIMINATION: THE COMPARATIVE FALSEHOOD ACCOUNT ; 7. ALEXANDER ON DISRESPECT AND DISCRIMINATION: THE IRRATIONAL, COMPARATIVE FALSEHOOD ACCOUNT ; 8. CONCLUSION ; CHAPTER 5: OBJECTIVE MEANING ACCOUNTS ; 1. INTRODUCTION ; 2. HELLMAN'S ACCOUNT: DEMEANING OTHERS ; 3. SOME CHALLENGES TO HELLMAN'S ACCOUNT ; 4. SCANLON ON RACIAL DISCRIMINATION AND THE MEANING OF ACTIONS ; 5. AN IMPORTANT AMBIGUITY ; 6. SOME WORRIES ABOUT SCANLON'S ACCOUNT ; 7. THE MORAL DISTINCTIVENESS OF DISCRIMINATION BASED ON JUDGMENTS OF INFERIORITY ; 8. CONCLUSION ; CHAPTER 6: HARM-BASED ACCOUNTS ; 1. INTRODUCTION ; 2. THE ESSENTIALS OF THE HARM-BASED ACCOUNT ; 3. THE BASELINE ISSUE ; 4. THE METRIC OF HARM ; 5. SOME CHALLENGES TO THE HARM-BASED ACCOUNT ; 6. A DESERT-PRIORITARIAN ACCOUNT ; 7. SOME OBJECTIONS ; 8. A TEST CASE: MORAL WRONGNESS OF INDIRECT DISCRIMINATION ; 9. CONCLUSION ; APPENDIX: MOREAU ON DELIBERATIVE FREEDOM AND DISCRIMINATION ; PART III: NEUTRALIZING DISCRIMINATION ; CHAPTER 7: DISCRIMINATION AND THE AIM OF PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION ; 1. INTRODUCTION ; 2. THE SIMPLE VIEW AND AMBITION-SENS...
