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Daniel Butt

MA, MPhil, DPhil Oxon

Associate Professor of Political Theory, DPIR
Fellow and Tutor in Politics, Balliol College
AFFILIATION
Political Theory Network
CSSJ
College
Balliol College

Research

Theories of distributive and rectificatory justice, with particular reference to historical injustice and international politics; colonialism; egalitarianism; the ethics of cultural property; environmental ethics; judicial politics and the philosophy of law. View more details on Daniel's personal web page.

Research interests

Political Theory, International ethics and global Justice, Norms, legitimacy and justification, Rights, Justice, and Equality, International law

Teaching

  • Undergraduate: Introduction to Politics: The Theory and Practice of Democracy; Theory of Politics; Advanced Paper in Theories of Justice
  • Graduate: Theory of Politics; Ethics; Mitigating Historical Injustice

Publications

Journal Articles

2021

BUTT, D. and Butt, M. (2021) “The mathematics of juries”, Counsel, (April 2021), pp. 32–34.

2018

Butt, D. (2018) “Restitution post bellum: property, inheritance, and corrective justice”, Journal of Applied Philosophy [Preprint].

2014

Butt, D. (2014) “‘A doctrine quite new and altogether untenable’: defending the beneficiary pays principle”, Journal of Applied Philosophy, 31(4), pp. 336–348.
BUTT, D. (no date) “What Structural Injustice Theory Leaves Out”, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice [Preprint].
BUTT, D. (no date) “Corrupting the youth: should parents feed their children meat?”, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice [Preprint].
BUTT, D. (no date) “Settling claims for reparation”, Journal of Race, Gender, and Ethnicity [Preprint].

Chapters

2020

BUTT, D. (2020) “The Ethical implications of Benefiting from Injustice”, in H. LaFollette (ed.) Ethics in Practice. John Wiley & Sons.

2017

Butt, D. (2017) “Historical emissions: does ignorance matter?”, in L. Meyer and P. Sanklecha (eds.) Climate Justice and Historical Emissions. Cambridge University Press.

2016

Butt, D. (2016) “Law, governance, and the ecological ethos”, in S. Gardiner and A. Thompson (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Ethics. Oxford University Press.

2015

Butt, D. (2015) “Historical justice in postcolonial contexts: repairing historical wrongs and the end of Empire”, in J. Thompson and K. Neumann (eds.) Historical Justice and Memory. University of Wisconsin Press.
Butt, D. (2015) “Microfinance, non-ideal theory, and global distributive justice”, in L. Cabrera and T. Sorell (eds.) Microfinance, Rights and Global Justice. Cambridge University Press.

2014

Butt, D. (2014) “Reparative justice: the debate over inherited inequities”, in R. Jones-Parry and A. Robertson (eds.) The Commonwealth Yearbook 2014. Commonwealth Secretariat.