Dr Carl Knight
- Senior Lecturer in Political Theory (Politics)
telephone:
01413301914
email:
Carl.Knight@glasgow.ac.uk
Department of Politics, Adam Smith Building
Biography
Biography
I'm a political philosopher working on theories of distributive justice (egalitarianism, prioritarianism, sufficientarianism) and applied topics in distributive justice (global justice, climate change, healthcare, discrimination). I also have interests in methodological issues in political philosophy, especially concerning reflective equilibrium.
My articles have appeared in leading philosophy and political science outlets such as Philosophy and Public Affairs, Economics and Philosophy, the Journal of Moral Philosophy, Environmental Politics, and Review of International Studies. I'm the author of Luck Egalitarianism (Edinburgh University Press, 2009), editor of Responsibility and Distributive Justice (co-edited with Zofia Stemplowska, Oxford University Press, 2011), and am currently completing a second monograph on luck and fairness. You can see my Google Scholar profile here: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=Pl9ebbYAAAAJ&hl
Prior to my current position I was British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow and then Lecturer in Political Theory at Glasgow. I am a visiting fellow at Aarhus University.
Research interests
Research Interests
- distributive justice
- egalitarianism
- prioritarianism
- sufficientarianism
- global justice
- climate justice
- medical ethics
- discrimination
- methods in political philosophy
Publications
Selected publications
Knight, C. (2023) Reflective equilibrium. In: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Metaphysics Research Lab, Philosophy Department, Stanford University. (Accepted for Publication)
Knight, C. (2023) Structures of sufficiency. In: Sobel, D., Vallentyne, P. and Wall, S. (eds.) Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy Volume 10. Oxford University Press. (Accepted for Publication)
Knight, C. (2022) Enough is too much: the excessiveness objection to sufficientarianism. Economics and Philosophy, 38(2), pp. 275-299. (doi: 10.1017/S0266267121000171)
Knight, C. (2021) An argument for all-luck egalitarianism. Philosophy and Public Affairs, 49(4), pp. 350-378. (doi: 10.1111/papa.12200)
Knight, C. and Albertsen, A. (2018) Egalitarianism. In: Maisel, L. S. (ed.) Oxford Bibliographies in Political Science. Oxford University Press. (doi: 10.1093/OBO/9780199756223-0155)
Knight, C. (2018) Equality of opportunity. In: Lippert-Rasmussen, K. (ed.) The Routledge Handbook of the Ethics of Discrimination. Series: Routledge handbooks in applied ethics. Routledge, pp. 140-150. ISBN 9781138928749
Knight, C. (2017) Reflective equilibrium. In: Blau, A. (ed.) Methods in Analytical Political Theory. Cambridge University Press, pp. 46-64. ISBN 9781316162576 (doi: 10.1017/9781316162576.005)
Knight, C. (2016) Climate change, fundamental interests, and global justice. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 19(5), pp. 629-644. (doi: 10.1080/13698230.2016.1183755)
Knight, C. (2015) Justice for foxes. Law and Philosophy, 34(6), pp. 633-659. (doi: 10.1007/s10982-015-9237-x)
Knight, C. and Albertsen, A. (2015) Rawlsian justice and palliative care. Bioethics, 29(8), pp. 536-542. (doi: 10.1111/bioe.12156) (PMID:25689627)
Knight, C. (2015) Abandoning the abandonment objection: luck egalitarian arguments for public insurance. Res Publica, 21(2), pp. 119-135. (doi: 10.1007/s11158-015-9273-2)
Albertsen, A. and Knight, C. (2015) A framework for luck egalitarianism in health and healthcare. Journal of Medical Ethics, 40(2), pp. 165-169. (doi: 10.1136/medethics-2013-101666) (PMID:24505116)
Knight, C. (2015) Luck egalitarianism and the history of political thought. In: Boisen, C. and Murray, M.C. (eds.) Distributive Justice Debates in the Political and Social Thought. Series: Routledge studies in social and political thought (105). Routledge: Abingdon. ISBN 9781138829763
Knight, C. (2014) Moderate emissions grandfathering. Environmental Values, 23(5), pp. 571-592. (doi: 10.3197/096327114X13947900181635)
Knight, C. (2014) Theories of distributive justice and post-apartheid South Africa. Politikon, 41(1), pp. 23-38. (doi: 10.1080/02589346.2014.885669)
Knight, C. (2013) Benefiting from injustice and brute luck. Social Theory and Practice, 39(4), pp. 581-598. (doi: 10.5840/soctheorpract201339433)
Knight, C. (2013) Luck egalitarianism. Philosophy Compass, 8(10), pp. 924-934. (doi: 10.1111/phc3.12077)
Knight, C. (2013) Egalitarian justice and expected value. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 16(5), pp. 1061-1073. (doi: 10.1007/s10677-013-9415-6)
Knight, C. (2013) The injustice of discrimination. South African Journal of Philosophy, 32(1), pp. 47-59. (doi: 10.4314%2Fsajpem.v32i1.)
Knight, C. (2013) What is grandfathering? Environmental Politics, 22(3), pp. 410-427. (doi: 10.1080/09644016.2012.740937)
All publications
Supervision
I will consider PhD proposals within most areas of political theory and political philosophy, and especially welcome those that concern my research interests indicated above. My current PhD students are Jiwei Li, Jeremy Whitley, and Junting Ge.
- Li, Jiwei
The Idea of Meritocracy and How It Backfires
Teaching
Undergraduate
Politics 2A: History of Political Thought
Honours: Egalitarianism and its Critics
Honours: Global Distributive Justice