Edited by

Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen

 

List of contributors ix

Acknowledgements xiii

The philosophy of discrimination: an introduction 1

Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen

 

PART I

Conceptual issues 17

1 Direct discrimination 19

Frej Klem Thomsen

2 Indirect discrimination 30

Tarunabh Khaitan

3 Statistical (and non-statistical) discrimination 42

Frederick Schauer

4 Epistemic discrimination 54

Katherine Puddifoot

5 Discrimination and intersectionality 68

Natalie Stoljar

 

PART II

The wrongness of discrimination 81

6 Discrimination and disrespect 83

Erin Beeghly

7 Discrimination and social meaning 97

Deborah Hellman

8 Discrimination and irrelevance 108

Lena Halldenius

9 Discrimination and desert 119

Andres Moles

10 Discrimination and rights 132

Peter Vallentyne

11 Discrimination and equality of opportunity 140

Carl Knight

12 Discrimination and harm 151

Richard Arneson

13 Discrimination and freedom 164

Sophia Moreau

14 Discrimination and virtue 174

J. L. A. Garcia

 

PART III

Groups of discriminatees 183

15 Discrimination and gender 185

Gina Schouten

16 Discrimination and race 196

Patrick Shin

17 Discrimination and religion 207

Sune Lægaard

18 Discrimination and sexual orientation 218

Edward Stein

19 Discrimination and disability 231

David Wasserman and Sean Aas

20 Discrimination and age 243

Juliana Bidadanure

21 Discrimination and immigration 254

José Jorge Mendoza

22 Discrimination and obesity 264

Garrath Williams

23 Discrimination and lookism 276

Xiaofei Liu

24 Discrimination and trans identities 287

Mari Mikkola

 

PART IV

Sites of discrimination 299

25 Discrimination and the job market 301

Sarah Goff

26 Discrimination and education 312

Gideon Elford

27 Discrimination and law enforcement 324

Re’em Segev

28 Discrimination and insurance 335

Ronen Avraham

29 Discrimination and politics 348

Nenad Stojanovic´

30 Discrimination and the private sphere 360

Hugh Collins

31 Discrimination and the personal sphere 369

Hugh Lazenby and Paul Butterfield

PART V

Causes and means 379

32 The social psychology of discrimination 381

Jules Holroyd

33 Discrimination and affirmative action 394

Julie Suk

34 Discrimination and diversity 407

George Hull

35 Wrongful private discrimination and the egalitarian ethos 421

Carina Fourie

 

PART VI

History 433

36 Discrimination: word, concept, anti-norm – some historical sketches 435

Robert K. Fullinwider