Christine Sypnowich

Christine Sypnowich is Professor and Head of Philosophy at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. She is author of Equality Renewed: Justice, Human Flourishing, and the Egalitarian Ideal and The Concept of Socialist Law. She is completing a book on the philosophy of G. A. Cohen.

Is Equal Opportunity Enough?

Being serious about equality means aiming to ensure we all live equally flourishing lives—not merely that we have the chance to do so.

  • Christine Sypnowich

Is Equal Opportunity Enough?

Focusing on opportunities instead of outcomes is misguided—politically and philosophically.

  • Christine Sypnowich
with responses from
  • Gina Schouten
  • Martin O’Neill
  • Nicholas Vrousalis
  • Anne Phillips
  • William M. Paris
  • Leah Gordon
  • Claude S. Fischer
  • Zofia Stemplowska
  • Lane Kenworthy
  • John Roemer
  • Ravi Kanbur

Equality Matters

Final response: we need a more substantive and generous understanding of the egalitarian ideal.

  • Christine Sypnowich
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