CFP: Discrimination: What is it? When is it wrong? What should we do about it?
Submission deadline: October 31, 2014
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Theme: Discrimination
Subtitle: What is it? When is it wrong? What should we do about it?
Publication: Moral Philosophy and Politics
Date: Issue 02/2015
Deadline: 31.10.2014
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The journal Moral Philosophy & Politics hereby invites contributions
to a symposium on discrimination. Discrimination obviously has
received a lot of political attention. Yet, so far philosophers have
not seriously tackled the many philosophical issues that
discrimination raises. Contributors are asked to address one or more
of three general questions:
1) What is discrimination in the sense that people who complain about
discrimination have in mind? Clearly, discrimination has something to
do with differential treatment, but not all forms of differential
treatment constitute discrimination in this sense.
2) What makes discrimination unjust or morally wrong when it is?
There are many different possible accounts, for instance, that
discrimination violates the (human) rights of the discriminatee, that
it is disrespectful, undermines equality of opportunity, or that it
is harmful to its victims.
3) What ought we to do in face of discrimination? For instance,
should the state seek to eliminate all forms of discrimination,
including discrimination in people’s private lives, and is
affirmative action a morally right way of eliminating the
differential effects of discrimination?
Contributions could address either of these questions in a more
specific form, e.g., what makes indirect discrimination unjust.
Guest Editor: Kaspar Lippert Rasmussen (Aarhus University)
Papers should be submitted before October 31, 2014, and should not
exceed 8000 words in total.
The journal's manuscript submission site can be found under:
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/mopp
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