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 Carl Knight 

Prof Carl Knight
Faculty of Humanities
Department of Politics
Post Doctoral Research

Biographical

Carl Knight holds a BA (York), MA (York), and PhD (Manchester) and is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Politics. He has previously held posts at the University of York and the University of Glasgow, where he remains an Honorary Research Fellow. His research interests are in political theory and ethics, and he has two ongoing projects, the first exploring the role of responsibility in contemporary theories of distributive justice and equality, the second exploring global theories of justice and their real world policy prescriptions.

Books

Knight, C. (2009) Luck Egalitarianism: Equality, Responsibility, and Justice (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press). ISBN 978 9 7486 3869 7

Knight, C. And Stemplowska, S. (forthcoming 2010) Distributive Justice and Responsibility (Oxford: Oxford University Press).

Journal Articles

Knight, C. (2009) ‘Egalitarian Justice and Valuational Judgment’, 6(4), pp. 482-98. ISSN 1740-4681

Knight, C. (2009) ‘Describing Equality’, Law and Philosophy, 28(4), pp. 327-65. ISSN 0167-5249

Knight, C. (2008) ‘A Pluralistic Approach to Global Poverty’, Review of International Studies, 34 (4), pp.713-33. ISSN 0260-2105

Knight, C. (2006) ‘The Method of Reflective Equilibrium: Wide, Radical, Fallible, Plausible’, Philosophical Papers, 35 (2), pp.205-229. ISSN 0556-8641

Knight, C. (2006) ‘The Metaphysical Case for Luck Egalitarianism’, Social Theory and Practice, 32 (2), pp.173-188.  ISSN 0037-802X

Knight, C. (2005) ‘In Defence of Luck Egalitarianism’, Res Publica, 11 (1), pp.55-73. ISSN 1356-4765

Knight, C. (2004) ‘Liberal Multiculturalism Reconsidered’, Politics, 24 (3), pp.189-197. ISSN 0263-3957
Research Awards:

Small Research Grant (£7,447) from British Academy, 2007-8 (with Z. Stemplowska)

Guarantee Against Loss from Scots Philosophical Club for Northern Political Theory Association Conference, 2007. 

Seedcorn Funding (£1,000) from Adam Smith Research Foundation, University of Glasgow (with S. McKenzie and P. Graham), 2007.

Worldwide Universities Network Global Exchange Programme Award (£1,750 plus fee waiver) to be a Visiting Scholar at the University of California, San Diego, 2006.

Arts and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Award (£9,000-£12,000 p.a. plus fee waiver) 2003-6.
York Alumni Fund Postgraduate Studentship (£6,000 plus fee waiver) 2002-3.

Gladstone Memorial Prize for best dissertation in Politics, History or Economics, University of York, 2002.
Politics Prize for best performance in finals, University of York, 2002.