Associate Professor
Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen
Address: Department of Media, Cognition, and Communication
University of Copenhagen
Njalsgade 80
2300 Copenhagen S
Denmark
Phone: +45 35 32 93 90
E-mail: lippert@hum.ku.dk
Room: 5.2.8
Office Hours: By appointment — send me an email

Research Areas

Egalitarianism, moral responsibility, and deontology. Presently, I am working on a book-length on discrimination: what is it, why is it wrong, and what should be done about it?

Selected Publications

Holtug, N. and K. Lippert-Rasmussen (eds.), Egalitarianism: New Essays on the Nature and Value of Equality, Oxford: Clarendon Press 2006.

Lippert-Rasmussen, K., “The Badness of Discrimination”, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 9 (2006), (167-185).

Lippert-Rasmussen, K., “Private discrimination: a prioritarian, desert-accommodating account”, San Diego Law Review, (forthcoming).

Lippert-Rasmussen, K., “Hurley on Egalitarianism and the Luck-neutralizing Aim”, Politics, Philosophy, and Economics, Vol. 4, No. 2 (2004), pp. 249-265.

Lippert-Rasmussen, K., “Hurley on Reasons-responsiveness, regression, and responsibility”, Philosophical Books, 46.3 (2004), pp. 199-209.

Lippert-Rasmussen, K., “Equality, Option Luck, and Responsibility”, Ethics, 111 (2001), pp. 548-579.

Lippert-Rasmussen, K., “Arneson on equality of opportunity for welfare”, The Journal of Political Philosophy, 7.4. (1999), pp. 478-87.

Lippert-Rasmussen, K., “Moral Status and the Impermissibility of Minimizing Violations”, Philosophy & Public Affairs, 25.4. (1996), pp. 333-49.