Measures of Needs-based Justice, Expertise and Coherence

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Mark Siebel
• Subject Area: Theoretical Philosophy ; Practical Philosophy
• Term: from 2014 to 2019
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 240285356

In the second funding period, we address differentiation in applying the needs principle. Sub-project A2 "Measures of Need-based Justice, Expertise and Coherence" focusses on three influencing factors: (a) self-responsibility of the receiver for her supply situation, (b) civil embedding of the receiver and (c) the significance which satisfying the given need has for a decent life. On the theoretical side, these factors will be mathematically modeled in order to integrate them in measures of need-based justice. On the experimental side, it will be examined how much different values of these factors strengthen or weaken acceptance of a need-based distribution. In continuation of the first funding period, the influence on the coherence and reference-point dependence of justice evaluations, as well as the role of expertise, will be included. For example, it will be examined whether judgements of persons who frequently deal with need-based supply and persons who know undersupply from personal experience are more strongly guided by needs, more coherent and show a smaller reference-point dependence.

• DFG Programme: Research Units
• Subproject of: FOR 2104: Needs-Based Justice and Distribution Procedures
• Co-Investigator: Professor Dr. Stefan Traub