Description: The essays in this book engage the original and controversial claims from Michael Boylan's A Just Society. Each essay discusses Boylan's claims from a particular chapter and offers a critical analysis of these claims. Boylan responds to the essays in his lengthy and philosophically rich reply.
Brief description: Dale Jacquette is Senior Professorial Chair in Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Bern, Switzerland. He is the author of The Philosophy of Schopenhauer (Acumen, 2005), Pathways in Philosophy (OUP, 2004), Ontology (Acumen, 2002) and Six Philosophical Appetizers (McGraw-Hill, 2001), and editor of Philosophy of Logic (Elsevier, 2007), The Cambridge Companion to Brentano (CUP, 2004), and A Companion to Philosophical Logic (Blackwell, 2002).
Review Quotes:
"Michael Boylan's book A Just Society challenges old assumptions and advances a new analytical framework for understanding social justice. This important collection provides not only a full and vigorous engagement with Boylan's novel moral-political theory, but also a fresh set of views on the nature, meaning and prospects of a just society today." --Patrick Hayden, University of St. Andrews
"This volume is a sharp and comprehensive assessment of Michael Boylan's A Just Society that will stimulate further debate on the timeless topic of justice." --Doris Schroeder, University of Central Lancashire