David Schmidtz

David Schmidtz is an American philosopher at the University of Arizona known for his pluralist account of justice and defense of market institutions.

Schmidtz argues that justice is not a single principle but a plurality of principles — desert, reciprocity, need, and equality — each appropriate to different social contexts, offering a pluralist alternative to both Rawlsian egalitarianism and strict Nozickian entitlement theory.