Offers a new approach to understanding the concept of desert and its relationship to justice.

Our everyday conversations reveal the widespread assumption that positive and negative treatment of others can be justified on the grounds that 'they deserve it

The Geometry of Desert explores the hidden complexity of moral desert. Using graphs to illustrate and contrast alternative views, it carefully investigates the

People consider desert part of our moral world. It structures how we think about important areas such as love, punishment, and work. This book argues that no on

Studies the range of acts and traits for which persons are said to deserve things. These include acting wrongly, being victimized by others' wrongdoing, extendi