Justice, luck, and knowledge

Title
  1. Justice, luck, and knowledge / S.L. Hurley.
Published by
  1. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2003.
Author
  1. Hurley, S. L. (Susan L.)

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Description
  1. viii, 341 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
Subject
  1. Distributive justice
  2. Fortune > Moral and ethical aspects
  3. Responsibility
Contents
  1. Introduction: Responsibility and Justice -- I. Responsibility -- 1. Philosophical Landscape: The New Articulation of Responsibility -- 2. Why Alternate Sequences Are Irrelevant to Responsibility -- 3. Why Responsibility Is Not Essentially Impossible -- 4. Responsibility, Luck, and the "Natural Lottery" -- II. Justice -- 5. Philosophical Landscape: The Luck-Neutralizing Approach to Distributive Justice -- 6. Why the Aim to Neutralize Luck Cannot Provide a Basis for Egalitariansim -- 7. Roemer on Responsibility and Equality -- 8. The Currency of Distributive Justice and Incentive Inequality -- 9. The Real Roles of Responsibility in Justice -- 10. From Ignorance to Maximin: A Bias-Neutralizing Alternative -- App. Outline of the Arguments.
Owning institution
  1. Columbia University Libraries
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-329) and index.