Title: Justice, luck, and knowledge /
Authors: Hurley, S. L.
Publisher: Harvard University Press,
Year: 2003
Subjects: Responsibility.; Distributive justice.; Fortune Moral and ethical aspects.
Contents: Introduction: responsibility and justice -- I. Responsibility -- Philosophical landscape: the new articulation of responsibility -- Why alternate sequences are irrelevant to responsibility -- Why responsibility is not essentially impossible -- Responsibility, luck, and the "natural lottery" -- -- II. Justice -- Philosophical landscape: the luck-neutralizing approach to distributive justice -- Why the aim to neutralize luck cannot provide a basis for egalitarianism -- Roemer on responsibility and equality -- The currency of distributive justice and incentive inequality -- The real roles of responsibility in justice -- From ignorance to maximim: a bias-neutralizing alternative.