Being Sure of Each Other is a ground-breaking investigation of a topic which, as Brownlee rightly contests, is of utmost importance. All the forms of sociality including casual social interaction, persistent intimate association, and social contribution are, generally speaking, of irreplaceable value to us, and we have claims of justice that the state support these goods.
Kimberley Brownlee is a Professor of Philosophy and holds the Canada Research Chair in Ethics and Political & Social Philosophy at the University of British Columbia. Her current research focuses on sociability, social rights, loneliness, and freedom of association. She is the author of Conscience and Conviction: The Case for Civil Disobedience (OUP 2012), co-editor of Disability and Disadvantage (OUP 2009), and co-editor of The Blackwell
Companion to Applied Philosophy (Wiley 2016). She was previously a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick.