Dr Carl Knight

  • Reader in Political Theory (Political & International Studies)

email: Carl.Knight@glasgow.ac.uk

Department of Politics, Adam Smith Building

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ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868

Biography

Biography

I'm a political philosopher working on theories of distributive justice (e.g., luck egalitarianism, sufficientarianism) and theories that challenge distributive justice (e.g., relational egalitarianism). I'm also interested in applied ethics including climate ethics, bioethics, and the ethics of discrimination. My treatment of substantive topics is informed by my work on methods in political philosophy, especially reflective equilibrium.

My articles have appeared in leading philosophy and social science outlets such as Philosophy and Public Affairs, the Journal of Moral Philosophy, Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy, the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Economics and Philosophy, the British Journal of Political Science, and Environmental Politics. I'm author of Luck Egalitarianism (Edinburgh University Press, 2009) and Leaving Nothing to Chance (Oxford University Press, 2025), and editor of Responsibility and Distributive Justice (with Zofia Stemplowska, Oxford University Press, 2011). I'm currently working on a monograph on sufficientarianism. You can see my Google Scholar profile here: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=Pl9ebbYAAAAJ&hl

For 2023 I was visiting fellow at the Centre for the Experimental-Philosophical Study of Discrimination at Aarhus University.

Research interests

Research Interests

  • distributive justice
  • egalitarianism
  • prioritarianism
  • sufficientarianism
  • global justice
  • climate justice
  • bioethics
  • discrimination
  • methods in political philosophy

Research groups

Publications

Selected publications

Knight, Carl ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 (2024) Leaving Nothing to Chance. Oxford University Press. (Accepted for Publication)

Albertsen, Andreas and Knight, Carl ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 (2024) Anti-homeless hostile design as wrongful discrimination. British Journal of Political Science, (Accepted for Publication)

Knight, Carl ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 (2023) Structures of sufficiency. In: Sobel, David, Vallentyne, Peter and Wall, Steven (eds.) Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy Volume 10. Oxford University Press. (Accepted for Publication)

Knight, Carl ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 (2023) Reflective equilibrium. In: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Metaphysics Research Lab, Philosophy Department, Stanford University. (Accepted for Publication)

Knight, Carl ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 (2022) Enough is too much: the excessiveness objection to sufficientarianism. Economics and Philosophy, 38(2), pp. 275-299. (doi: 10.1017/S0266267121000171)

Knight, Carl ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 (2021) An argument for all-luck egalitarianism. Philosophy and Public Affairs, 49(4), pp. 350-378. (doi: 10.1111/papa.12200)

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2025

Knight, Carl ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 (2025) Relational egalitarianism: a critique. Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, (Accepted for Publication)

Knight, Carl ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 (2025) Basic-needs sufficientarianism. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, (Accepted for Publication)

2024

Albertsen, Andreas and Knight, Carl ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 (2024) Anti-homeless hostile design as wrongful discrimination. British Journal of Political Science, (Accepted for Publication)

Knight, Carl ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 (2024) Leaving Nothing to Chance. Oxford University Press. (Accepted for Publication)

2023

Knight, Carl ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 (2023) Reflective equilibrium. In: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Metaphysics Research Lab, Philosophy Department, Stanford University. (Accepted for Publication)

Knight, Carl ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 (2023) Structures of sufficiency. In: Sobel, David, Vallentyne, Peter and Wall, Steven (eds.) Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy Volume 10. Oxford University Press. (Accepted for Publication)

Knight, Carl ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 and Le Merle, Kevin (2023) Climate justice principles. Discussion Paper. Foundation for European Progressive Studies, Brussels.

2022

Knight, Carl ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 (2022) Enough is too much: the excessiveness objection to sufficientarianism. Economics and Philosophy, 38(2), pp. 275-299. (doi: 10.1017/S0266267121000171)

2021

Knight, Carl ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 (2021) An argument for all-luck egalitarianism. Philosophy and Public Affairs, 49(4), pp. 350-378. (doi: 10.1111/papa.12200)

2019

Knight, Carl ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 (2019) Mounk, Yascha. The Age of Responsibility: Luck, Choice, and the Welfare State. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017. Pp. 288. $29.95 (cloth). Ethics, 129(3), pp. 489-492. (doi: 10.1086/701488)[Book Review]

2018

Knight, Carl ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 and Albertsen, Andreas (2018) Egalitarianism. In: Maisel, L. Sandy (ed.) Oxford Bibliographies in Political Science. Oxford University Press. (doi: 10.1093/OBO/9780199756223-0155)

Knight, Carl ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 (2018) Equality of opportunity. In: Lippert-Rasmussen, Kasper (ed.) The Routledge Handbook of the Ethics of Discrimination. Series: Routledge handbooks in applied ethics. Routledge, pp. 140-150. ISBN 9781138928749

2017

Knight, Carl ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 (2017) Reflective equilibrium. In: Blau, Adrian (ed.) Methods in Analytical Political Theory. Cambridge University Press, pp. 46-64. ISBN 9781316162576 (doi: 10.1017/9781316162576.005)

2016

Knight, Carl ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 (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, Carl ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 (2016) Introduction. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 19(5), pp. 505-507. (doi: 10.1080/13698230.2016.1183748)

2015

Knight, Carl ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 (2015) Justice for foxes. Law and Philosophy, 34(6), pp. 633-659. (doi: 10.1007/s10982-015-9237-x)

Knight, Carl ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 and Albertsen, Andreas (2015) Rawlsian justice and palliative care. Bioethics, 29(8), pp. 536-542. (doi: 10.1111/bioe.12156) (PMID:25689627)

Knight, Carl ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 (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, Andreas and Knight, Carl ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 (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, Carl ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 (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

2014

Knight, Carl ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 (2014) Moderate emissions grandfathering. Environmental Values, 23(5), pp. 571-592. (doi: 10.3197/096327114X13947900181635)

Knight, Carl ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 (2014) Theories of distributive justice and post-apartheid South Africa. Politikon, 41(1), pp. 23-38. (doi: 10.1080/02589346.2014.885669)

2013

Knight, C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 (2013) Benefiting from injustice and brute luck. Social Theory and Practice, 39(4), pp. 581-598. (doi: 10.5840/soctheorpract201339433)

Knight, C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 (2013) Luck egalitarianism. Philosophy Compass, 8(10), pp. 924-934. (doi: 10.1111/phc3.12077)

Knight, C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 (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. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 (2013) The injustice of discrimination. South African Journal of Philosophy, 32(1), pp. 47-59. (doi: 10.4314%2Fsajpem.v32i1.)

Knight, C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 (2013) What is grandfathering? Environmental Politics, 22(3), pp. 410-427. (doi: 10.1080/09644016.2012.740937)

2012

Knight, C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 and Knight, R. (2012) Equality and information. Ethical Perspectives, 19(3), pp. 469-499.

Knight, C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 (2012) Distributive luck. South African Journal of Philosophy, 31(3), pp. 541-559. (doi: 10.4314%2Fsajpem.v31i3)

Knight, C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 (2012) Unit-ideas unleashed: a reinterpretation and reassessment of Lovejovian methodology in the history of ideas. Journal of the Philosophy of History, 6(2), pp. 195-217. (doi: 10.1163/187226312X650746)

Knight, Carl ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 (2012) In defence of global egalitarianism. Journal of Global Ethics, 8(1), pp. 107-116. (doi: 10.1080/17449626.2011.635678)

2011

Knight, C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 (2011) In defence of cosmopolitanism. Theoria, 58(129), pp. 19-34. (doi: 10.3167/th.2011.5812903)

Knight, Carl ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 (2011) Persons, Interests, and Justice by Nils Holtug. Analysis, 71(4), pp. 790-793. (doi: 10.1093/analys/anr065)[Book Review]

Knight, C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 and Stemplowska, Z. (Eds.) (2011) Responsibility and distributive justice. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780199565801

Knight, C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 (2011) Inequality, avoidability, and healthcare. IYYUN: The Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly, 60, pp. 72-88.

Knight, C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 (2011) Climate change and the duties of the disadvantaged: reply to Caney. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 14(4), pp. 531-542. (doi: 10.1080/13698230.2011.597244)

Knight, C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 and Stemplowska, Z. (2011) Responsibility and distributive justice: an introduction. In: Knight, C. and Stemplowska, Z. (eds.) Responsibility and Distributive Justice. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 1-23. ISBN 9780199565801

Knight, Carl ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 (2011) Responsibility, desert, and justice. In: Knight, Carl and Stemplowska, Zofia (eds.) Responsibility and Distributive Justice. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 152-173. ISBN 9780199565801 (doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199565801.003.0008)

2010

Knight, C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 (2010) Justice and the grey box of responsibility. Theoria, 57(124), pp. 86-112. (doi: 10.3167/th.2010.5712404)

2009

Knight, C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 (2009) Describing equality. Law and Philosophy, 28(4), pp. 327-365. (doi: 10.1007/s10982-008-9040-z)

Knight, C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 (2009) Egalitarian justice and valuational judgment. Journal of Moral Philosophy, 6(4), pp. 482-498. (doi: 10.1163/174046809X12464327133177)

Knight, C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 (2009) Luck Egalitarianism: Equality, Responsibility, and Justice. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh. ISBN 9780748638697

2008

Knight, C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 (2008) A pluralistic approach to global poverty. Review of International Studies, 34(4), pp. 713-733. (doi: 10.1017/S0260210508008243)

2006

Knight, Carl ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 (2006) The metaphysical case for luck egalitarianism. Social Theory and Practice, 32(2), pp. 173-188. (doi: 10.5840/soctheorpract200632212)

Knight, Carl ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 (2006) The method of reflective equilibrium: wide, radical, fallible, plausible. Philosophical Papers, 35(2), pp. 205-229. (doi: 10.1080/05568640609485180)

2005

Knight, Carl ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 (2005) In defence of luck egalitarianism. Res Publica, 11(1), pp. 55-73. (doi: 10.1007/s11158-004-4973-z)

2004

Knight, Carl ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 (2004) Liberal multiculturalism reconsidered. Politics, 24(3), pp. 189-197. (doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9256.2004.00219.x)

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Articles

Knight, Carl ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 (2025) Relational egalitarianism: a critique. Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, (Accepted for Publication)

Knight, Carl ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 (2025) Basic-needs sufficientarianism. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, (Accepted for Publication)

Albertsen, Andreas and Knight, Carl ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 (2024) Anti-homeless hostile design as wrongful discrimination. British Journal of Political Science, (Accepted for Publication)

Knight, Carl ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 (2022) Enough is too much: the excessiveness objection to sufficientarianism. Economics and Philosophy, 38(2), pp. 275-299. (doi: 10.1017/S0266267121000171)

Knight, Carl ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 (2021) An argument for all-luck egalitarianism. Philosophy and Public Affairs, 49(4), pp. 350-378. (doi: 10.1111/papa.12200)

Knight, Carl ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 (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, Carl ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 (2016) Introduction. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 19(5), pp. 505-507. (doi: 10.1080/13698230.2016.1183748)

Knight, Carl ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 (2015) Justice for foxes. Law and Philosophy, 34(6), pp. 633-659. (doi: 10.1007/s10982-015-9237-x)

Knight, Carl ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 and Albertsen, Andreas (2015) Rawlsian justice and palliative care. Bioethics, 29(8), pp. 536-542. (doi: 10.1111/bioe.12156) (PMID:25689627)

Knight, Carl ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 (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, Andreas and Knight, Carl ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 (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, Carl ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 (2014) Moderate emissions grandfathering. Environmental Values, 23(5), pp. 571-592. (doi: 10.3197/096327114X13947900181635)

Knight, Carl ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 (2014) Theories of distributive justice and post-apartheid South Africa. Politikon, 41(1), pp. 23-38. (doi: 10.1080/02589346.2014.885669)

Knight, C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 (2013) Benefiting from injustice and brute luck. Social Theory and Practice, 39(4), pp. 581-598. (doi: 10.5840/soctheorpract201339433)

Knight, C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 (2013) Luck egalitarianism. Philosophy Compass, 8(10), pp. 924-934. (doi: 10.1111/phc3.12077)

Knight, C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 (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. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 (2013) The injustice of discrimination. South African Journal of Philosophy, 32(1), pp. 47-59. (doi: 10.4314%2Fsajpem.v32i1.)

Knight, C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 (2013) What is grandfathering? Environmental Politics, 22(3), pp. 410-427. (doi: 10.1080/09644016.2012.740937)

Knight, C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 and Knight, R. (2012) Equality and information. Ethical Perspectives, 19(3), pp. 469-499.

Knight, C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 (2012) Distributive luck. South African Journal of Philosophy, 31(3), pp. 541-559. (doi: 10.4314%2Fsajpem.v31i3)

Knight, C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 (2012) Unit-ideas unleashed: a reinterpretation and reassessment of Lovejovian methodology in the history of ideas. Journal of the Philosophy of History, 6(2), pp. 195-217. (doi: 10.1163/187226312X650746)

Knight, Carl ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 (2012) In defence of global egalitarianism. Journal of Global Ethics, 8(1), pp. 107-116. (doi: 10.1080/17449626.2011.635678)

Knight, C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 (2011) In defence of cosmopolitanism. Theoria, 58(129), pp. 19-34. (doi: 10.3167/th.2011.5812903)

Knight, C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 (2011) Inequality, avoidability, and healthcare. IYYUN: The Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly, 60, pp. 72-88.

Knight, C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 (2011) Climate change and the duties of the disadvantaged: reply to Caney. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 14(4), pp. 531-542. (doi: 10.1080/13698230.2011.597244)

Knight, C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 (2010) Justice and the grey box of responsibility. Theoria, 57(124), pp. 86-112. (doi: 10.3167/th.2010.5712404)

Knight, C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 (2009) Describing equality. Law and Philosophy, 28(4), pp. 327-365. (doi: 10.1007/s10982-008-9040-z)

Knight, C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 (2009) Egalitarian justice and valuational judgment. Journal of Moral Philosophy, 6(4), pp. 482-498. (doi: 10.1163/174046809X12464327133177)

Knight, C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 (2008) A pluralistic approach to global poverty. Review of International Studies, 34(4), pp. 713-733. (doi: 10.1017/S0260210508008243)

Knight, Carl ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 (2006) The metaphysical case for luck egalitarianism. Social Theory and Practice, 32(2), pp. 173-188. (doi: 10.5840/soctheorpract200632212)

Knight, Carl ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 (2006) The method of reflective equilibrium: wide, radical, fallible, plausible. Philosophical Papers, 35(2), pp. 205-229. (doi: 10.1080/05568640609485180)

Knight, Carl ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 (2005) In defence of luck egalitarianism. Res Publica, 11(1), pp. 55-73. (doi: 10.1007/s11158-004-4973-z)

Knight, Carl ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 (2004) Liberal multiculturalism reconsidered. Politics, 24(3), pp. 189-197. (doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9256.2004.00219.x)

Books

Knight, Carl ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 (2024) Leaving Nothing to Chance. Oxford University Press. (Accepted for Publication)

Knight, C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 (2009) Luck Egalitarianism: Equality, Responsibility, and Justice. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh. ISBN 9780748638697

Book Sections

Knight, Carl ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 (2023) Reflective equilibrium. In: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Metaphysics Research Lab, Philosophy Department, Stanford University. (Accepted for Publication)

Knight, Carl ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 (2023) Structures of sufficiency. In: Sobel, David, Vallentyne, Peter and Wall, Steven (eds.) Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy Volume 10. Oxford University Press. (Accepted for Publication)

Knight, Carl ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 and Albertsen, Andreas (2018) Egalitarianism. In: Maisel, L. Sandy (ed.) Oxford Bibliographies in Political Science. Oxford University Press. (doi: 10.1093/OBO/9780199756223-0155)

Knight, Carl ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 (2018) Equality of opportunity. In: Lippert-Rasmussen, Kasper (ed.) The Routledge Handbook of the Ethics of Discrimination. Series: Routledge handbooks in applied ethics. Routledge, pp. 140-150. ISBN 9781138928749

Knight, Carl ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 (2017) Reflective equilibrium. In: Blau, Adrian (ed.) Methods in Analytical Political Theory. Cambridge University Press, pp. 46-64. ISBN 9781316162576 (doi: 10.1017/9781316162576.005)

Knight, Carl ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 (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. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 and Stemplowska, Z. (2011) Responsibility and distributive justice: an introduction. In: Knight, C. and Stemplowska, Z. (eds.) Responsibility and Distributive Justice. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 1-23. ISBN 9780199565801

Knight, Carl ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 (2011) Responsibility, desert, and justice. In: Knight, Carl and Stemplowska, Zofia (eds.) Responsibility and Distributive Justice. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 152-173. ISBN 9780199565801 (doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199565801.003.0008)

Book Reviews

Knight, Carl ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 (2019) Mounk, Yascha. The Age of Responsibility: Luck, Choice, and the Welfare State. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017. Pp. 288. $29.95 (cloth). Ethics, 129(3), pp. 489-492. (doi: 10.1086/701488)[Book Review]

Knight, Carl ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 (2011) Persons, Interests, and Justice by Nils Holtug. Analysis, 71(4), pp. 790-793. (doi: 10.1093/analys/anr065)[Book Review]

Edited Books

Knight, C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 and Stemplowska, Z. (Eds.) (2011) Responsibility and distributive justice. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780199565801

Research Reports or Papers

Knight, Carl ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-2868 and Le Merle, Kevin (2023) Climate justice principles. Discussion Paper. Foundation for European Progressive Studies, Brussels.

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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 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