Justice, luck, and knowledge /

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Author / Creator:Hurley, S. L. (Susan L.)
Imprint:Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2003.
Description:viii, 341 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4863338
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ISBN:0674010299 (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-329) and index.
Table of 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 Egalitarianism
  • 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
  • Appendix. Outline of the Arguments
  • Bibliography
  • Index