Carl Knight is Reader in Political Theory at the University of Glasgow. He specializes in theories of justice (e.g., luck egalitarianism, relational egalitarianism, prioritarianism, sufficientarianism) and applied distributive justice (global justice, climate change, healthcare, discrimination). His treatment of substantive topics is informed by his work on methods in political philosophy, especially concerning reflective equilibrium.
Carl is author of Leaving Nothing to Chance (Oxford University Press, 2025) and Luck Egalitarianism (Edinburgh University Press, 2009) and editor of Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy, vol. 12 (with Steve W…
Carl Knight is Reader in Political Theory at the University of Glasgow. He specializes in theories of justice (e.g., luck egalitarianism, relational egalitarianism, prioritarianism, sufficientarianism) and applied distributive justice (global justice, climate change, healthcare, discrimination). His treatment of substantive topics is informed by his work on methods in political philosophy, especially concerning reflective equilibrium.
Carl is author of Leaving Nothing to Chance (Oxford University Press, 2025) and Luck Egalitarianism (Edinburgh University Press, 2009) and editor of Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy, vol. 12 (with Steve Wall, Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2026) and Responsibility and Distributive Justice (with Zofia Stemplowska, Oxford University Press, 2011). His articles have appeared in leading outlets such as Philosophy and Public Affairs, the Journal of Moral Philosophy, Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy, Economics and Philosophy, the British Journal of Political Science and the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. He's currently working on a monograph on sufficientarianism.
