Justice, luck, and knowledge
- Title
- Justice, luck, and knowledge / S.L. Hurley.
- Published by
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2003.
- Author
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Details
- Description
- viii, 341 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Subject
- Contents
- 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
- Columbia University Libraries
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-329) and index.