When is discrimination wrong? /
"In this book, Deborah Hellman develops a much-needed general theory of discrimination. She demonstrates that many familiar ideas about when discrimination is wrong - when it is motivated by prejudice, grounded in stereotypes, or simply departs from merit-based decision-making - won't adeq...
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
2008
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : the discrimination puzzle
- When is discrimination wrong?
- The basic idea
- Demeaning and wrongful discrimination
- Interpretation and disagreement
- Considering alternatives
- Introduction to part II
- Merit, entitlement, and desert
- Accuracy and irrationality
- Is it the thought that counts?
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index