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South African Journal of Philosophy, 2012 This article explores the Rawlsian goal of ensuring that distributionsare not influenced by the morally arbitrary. It does so by bringing discussionsof distributive justice into contact with the debate overmoral luck initiated by Williams and Nagel. Rawls’ own justice asfairness appears to be incompatible with the arbitrariness commitment,as it ...
Knight, C.
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, 2018 In almost any domain of endeavour, successes can be attained through skill, but also by dumb luck. An archer’s wildest shots occasionally hit the target. Against enormous odds, some fair lottery tickets happen to win. The same goes in the case of purely cognitive or intellectual endeavours.
Broncano-Berrocal, Fernando +1 more
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Philosophy Compass, 2011 AbstractEpistemologists often remark that knowledge precludes luck. A true belief based on a guess or hunch is not knowledge because it seems merely fortuitous, too much of an accident, and, well, lucky that one happened to get things right. Of course, true beliefs based on guesses and hunches are not justified. However, Gettier cases have persuasively
Engel Jr, Mylan
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, 2019 The aim of this paper is to explore the hypothesis that luck is a risk-involving phenomenon. I start by explaining why this hypothesis is prima facie plausible in view of the parallelisms between luck and risk.
Broncano-Berrocal, Fernando
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Why not be a desertist?: Three arguments for desert and against luck egalitarianism [PDF]
, 2018 Many philosophers believe that luck egalitarianism captures “desert-like” intuitions about justice. Some even think that luck egalitariansm distributes goods in accordance with desert. In this paper, we argue that this is wrong.
Brouwer, Huub, Mulligan, Thomas
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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2013 We find that the vast majority of students taking an advanced undergraduate finance course show a preference for luck in a classroom experiment. In Phase I of the experiment part of the students, group A, were asked to guess a coin toss five times in a row.
Bou, Silvia +3 more
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Aristotle on Constitutive, Developmental, and Resultant Moral Luck [PDF]
, 2019 This chapter offers a definition of luck from Aristotle's Physics, considers how this definition of luck from the Physics relates to Aristotle's treatment of luck in his works on ethics and the good life, as well as how it compares with the modern ...
Athanassoulis, Nafsika
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Beliefs around luck : confirming the empirical conceptualization of beliefs around luck and the development of the Darke and Freedman beliefs around luck scale [PDF]
, 2008 The current study developed a multi-dimensional measure of beliefs around luck. Two studies introduced the Darke and Freedman beliefs around luck scale where the scale showed a consistent 4 component model (beliefs in luck, rejection of luck, being lucky,
Alex M. Wood +29 more
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Egalitarian justice and expected value [PDF]
, 2013 According to all-luck egalitarianism, the differential distributive effects of both brute luck, which defines the outcome of risks which are not deliberately taken, and option luck, which defines the outcome of deliberate gambles, are unjust. Exactly how
A Cappelen +34 more
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Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2014 Nearly all success is due to some mix of ability and luck. But some successes we attribute to the agent's ability, whereas others we attribute to luck. To better understand the criteria distinguishing credit from luck, we conducted a series of four studies on knowledge attributions. Knowledge is an achievement that involves reaching the truth. But many
Turri, John +2 more
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