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
2022
Butt, D. (2022) “Settling claims for reparation”, Journal of Race, Gender, and Ethnicity, 11(1).
2021
Butt, D. (2021) “Corrupting the youth: should parents feed their children meat?”, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 24(4), pp. 981–997.
Available at https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-021-10223-2
Butt, D. (2021) “What structural injustice theory leaves out”, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 24(2021), pp. 1161–1175.
Available at https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-021-10180-w
Butt, M. and Butt, D. (2021) “The mathematics of juries”, Counsel, 2021(April ), pp. 32–34.
2018
Butt, D. (2018) “Restitution post bellum: property, inheritance, and corrective justice”, Journal of Applied Philosophy, 36(3), pp. 357–365.
Available at https://doi.org/10.1111/japp.12319
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.
Available at https://doi.org/10.1111/japp.12073
Chapters
2022
Laborde, C. (2022) “Miller’s minarets: religion, culture, domination”, in D. Butt, S. Fine, and Z. Stemplowska (eds.) Political Philosophy, Here and Now: Essays in Honour of David Miller. Oxford University Press, pp. 130–146.
Available at https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198807834.003.0009
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”, in L. Meyer and P. Sanklecha (eds.) Climate Justice and Historical Emissions. Cambridge University Press, pp. 61–79.
Available at https://doi.org/10.1017/9781107706835.004
2016
Butt, D. (2016) “Law, Governance, and the Ecological Ethos”, in S. Gardiner and A. Thompson (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Environmental Ethics. Oxford University Press.
Available at https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199941339.013.5
2015
Butt, D. (2015) “Microfinance, non-ideal theory, and global distributive justice
”, in T. Sorell and L. Cabrera (eds.) Microfinance, Rights and Global Justice. Cambridge University Press.
Available at https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316275634.005
Butt, D. (2015) “Historical Justice in Postcolonial Contexts: Repairing Historical Wrongs and the End of Empire”, in K. Neumann and J. Thompson (eds.) Historical Justice and Memory. University of Wisconsin Press.
2014
Butt, D. (2014) “Reparative justice: The debate over inherited inequities”, in R. Jones-Parry and A. Robertson (eds.) Commonwealth Yearbook 2014. Nexus Strategic Partnerships.
