How Can We Be Equals?

Giacomo Floris is British Academy Fellow in Philosophy at the University of York. His main areas of research are in contemporary moral and political philosophy, with a particular interest in theories of moral status and basic equality, and theories of relational equality and distributive justice. His work has appeared in various journals, including Philosophical Studies, Journal of Ethics, European Journal of Political Theory, and Ethical Theory and Moral Practice.Nikolas Kirby is Lecturer in Politics at the University of Glasgow. Previously, he was Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow, Departmental Lecturer in Philosophy and Public Policy, and Director of the Building Integrity Programme, Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University. He was also a Democracy Visiting Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

• Part I - Meaning: History and Critique1: Teresa Bejan: On the Historical Emergence of Basic Human Equality2: Jeremy Waldron: Basic and Relational Equality3: Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen: Should People Who Are Moral Equals Relate as Social Equals? Should People Who Are Not Moral Equals Relate as Social Unequals?4: Andrea Sangiovanni: Is There a Thing Called Moral Equality? (And Does It Matter if There Isn't?)Part II - Justification: Grounding and Scepticism5: Ian Carter: Basic Equality and the Contexts of Opacity Respect6: Thomas Christiano: Equal Moral Status and the Collective Nature of Rationality7: Nikolas Kirby: Basic Equality: Worth, Luck and Weight8: Agnieszka Jaworska and Julie Tannenbaum: Equality and Moral Status: Challenges to Their Grounding9: Anne Phillips: When Equality Needs No JustificationPart III - Scope: Inclusion and Marginalisation10: Giacomo Floris: The Basis of Children's Moral Equality11: Eva Feder Kittay: Basic Human Moral Equality12: George Sher: First Among Equals13: Richard Arneson: Basic Equality, Rational Agency Capacity, and Potentiality