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JUSTICE,INCENTIVES AND CONSTRUCTIVISM |
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| Authors: | Andrew Williams |
| Affiliation: | Department of Philosophy University of Warwick Coventry, CV4 7AL, United Kingdom andrew.williams@warwick.ac.uk |
| Abstract: | In Rescuing Justice and Equality, G. A. Cohen reiterates his critique of John Rawls's difference principle as a justification for inequality‐generating incentives, and also argues that Rawls's ambition to provide a constructivist defence of the first principles of justice is doomed. Cohen's arguments also suggest a natural response to my earlier attempt to defend the basic structure objection to Cohen's critique, which I term the alien factors reply. This paper criticises the reply, and Cohen's more general argument against Rawls's constructivism. 1 |
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