Kantian Justice: A Desert-sensitive Responsibility-enhancing Theory

Sorin Baiasu’s €2m (UKRI-funded) ERC Advanced Grant project is designed to formulate a new model of distributive justice in response to growing global economic disparities by drawing on new reconstructions of Kant’s accounts of freedom, moral agency and justice, in order to formulate a distinctive position within dominant egalitarianisms in current political philosophy.

The project’s overall aim is to propose an innovative theory of distributive justice sensitive to persons’ just deserts, based on a new account of the concept of desert and able to explain away current dissonances between dominant theories of justice and some of our most significant everyday practices, thereby addressing structural injustices and making possible a fairer and more stable society.