Xinting Liu

My primary research interests revolve around egalitarian justice. I'm working on the concepts of self-ownership in libertarianism and desert in distributive justice. Regarding the former, I'm challenging the traditional self-ownership thesis based on some feminist thoughts and arguing for a new interpretation of it. In the latter project, I attempt to develop a new interpretation of Rawls's distributive justice by attributing to him a desert theory, despite his explicit denial of desert. In addition to these two projects, I'm intrigued in G. A. Cohen.