Caste Wars: A Philosophy of Discrimination

The central topic for this book is the ethics of treating individuals as though they are members of groups. The book raises many interesting questions, including:

• Why do we feel so much more strongly about discrimination on certain grounds – e.g. of race and sex - than discrimination on other grounds? Are we right to think that discrimination based on these characteristics is especially invidious?

• What should we think about ‘rational discrimination’ – ‘discrimination’ which is based on so...