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241Relational and Distributive DiscriminationLaw and Philosophy 42 (4). 2023.Recent philosophical accounts of discrimination face challenges in accommodating robust intuitions about the particular way in which it is wrongful—most prominently, the intuition that discriminatory actions intrinsically violate equality irrespective of their contingent consequences. The paper suggests that we understand the normative structure of discrimination in a way that is different from the one implicitly assumed by these accounts. It argues that core discriminatory wrongs—such as segreg…Read more
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161Can Normative Accounts of Discrimination Be Guided by Anti-discrimination Law? Should They?Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics 15 (2). 2022.In her recent book, Faces of Inequality (2020), Moreau aims at developing a normative account of discrimination that is guided by the main features of anti-discrimination law. The critical comment argues against this methodology, indicating that due to indeterminacy relative to their underlying normative principles, central anti-discrimination norms cannot fulfill this guiding role. Further, using the content of such norms to guide ethical discussions is likely to be misleading, as it reflects e…Read more
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312Intentional and Unintentional Discrimination: What Are They and What Makes Them Morally DifferentJournal of Moral Philosophy 19 (2): 111-138. 2021.The distinction between intentional and unintentional discrimination is a prominent one in the literature and public discourse; intentional discriminatory actions are commonly considered particularly morally objectionable relative to unintentional discriminatory actions. Nevertheless, it remains unclear what the two types amount to, and what generates the moral difference between them. The paper develops philosophically-informed conceptualizations of the two types based on which the moral differ…Read more
Rona Dinur
The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Alumnus, 2020
Areas of Specialization
Applied Ethics |
Philosophy of Law |
Social and Political Philosophy |