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Moral Luck in Thomas Hardy's Fiction [PDF]
, 2010 Thomas Hardy is notorious for driving his characters into the grave with untimely chance and luck. This essay interprets his idiosyncrasy as an exploration of the problem of 'moral luck' to confront the reader with fundamental ethical questions.
Zhang, C
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Aristotle and Contemporary Theories of Luck
PhilosophiesContemporary theories of luck face problems when it comes to moral luck, that is, luck that nevertheless partially determines moral responsibility. Either they conceive of luck as chancy or modally fragile, which is too narrow and excludes cases such as ...
Marcella Linn
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Moral Principles: A Challenge for Deniers of Moral Luck
Ergo, An Open Access Journal of PhilosophyOn a common characterization, moral luck occurs when factors beyond agents’ control affect their moral responsibility. The existence of moral luck is widely contested, however. In this paper, I present a new challenge for deniers of moral luck.
Anna Nyman
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On the Usefulness of Luck Egalitarian Arguments for Global Justice
Global justice: Theory, Practice, Rhetoric, 2008 Much of the recent philosophical literature about distributive justice and equality in the domestic context has been dominated by a family of theories now often called ‘luck egalitarianism’, according to which it is unfair if some people are worse off ...
Christian Schemmel
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Hurley on Justice and Responsibility [PDF]
, 2006 http://klinechair.missouri.edu/on-line%20papers/hurley.docIn Justice, Luck, and Knowledge, Susan Hurley defends a reason-responsive account of responsibility, argues that appeals to responsibility cannot provide a justification or non-trivial ...
Vallentyne, Peter
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Moral Luck and The Unfairness of Morality [PDF]
, 2019 Moral luck occurs when factors beyond an agent’s control positively affect how much praise or blame she deserves. Kinds of moral luck are differentiated by the source of lack of control such as the results of her actions, the circumstances in which she ...
Hartman, Robert
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, 2017 The immediate aim of this paper is to articulate the essential features of an alternative compatibilist position, one that is responsive to sources of resistance to the compatibilist program based on considerations of fate and luck.
Russell, Paul
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Hypothetical choice, egalitarianism, and the separateness of persons [PDF]
, 2015 Luck egalitarians claim that disadvantage is worse when it emerges from an unchosen risk than when it emerges from a chosen risk. I argue that disadvantage is also worse when it emerges from an unchosen risk that the disadvantaged agent would have ...
Hyams, Keith
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Against the Character Solution to the Problem of Moral Luck [PDF]
, 2020 One way to frame the problem of moral luck is as a contradiction in our ordinary ideas about moral responsibility. In the case of two identical reckless drivers where one kills a pedestrian and the other does not, we tend to intuit that they are and are ...
Hartman, Robert J.
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A Moral Framework for Understanding of Fair ML through Economic Models of Equality of Opportunity [PDF]
, 2018 We map the recently proposed notions of algorithmic fairness to economic models of Equality of opportunity (EOP)---an extensively studied ideal of fairness in political philosophy.
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