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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.
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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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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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, 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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Cell, 2015 On June 5, 1944, I discovered a radiation-resistant mutant of E. coli in my first experiment at the Cold Spring Harbor laboratories. That’s where the new field of bacterial genetics was germinating. I was a Columbia University graduate student, there to learn how to handle E. coli so I could do my doctoral research with bacteria.
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Benefiting from injustice and brute luck [PDF]
, 2013 Many political philosophers maintain that beneficiaries of injustice are under special obligations to assist victims of injustice. However, the examples favored by those who endorse this view equally support an alternative luck egalitarian view, which ...
Knight, C.
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, 2011 Epistemic luck is a generic notion used to describe any of a number of ways in which it can be accidental, coincidental, or fortuitous that a person has a true belief.
Engel Jr, Mylan
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Real Knowledge Undermining Luck [PDF]
, 2016 Based on the discussion of a novel version of the Barn County scenario, the paper argues for a new explication of knowledge undermining luck.
van Riel, Raphael
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, 2019 In this chapter, we will explore the luck at issue in Gettier-styled counterexamples and the subsequent problem it poses to any viable reductive analysis of knowledge.
Church, Ian M.
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A framework for luck egalitarianism in health and healthcare [PDF]
, 2014 Several attempts have been made to apply the choice-sensitive theory of distributive justice, luck egalitarianism, in the context of health and healthcare.
Albertsen, Andreas, Knight, Carl
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