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The Thirsty Traveler and Luck-Free Moral Luck

Problemos
This article is divided into three sections. In the first and second, I examine Sartorio’s account of the causal structure of the famous Thirsty Traveler thought experiment. I argue that this account does not withstand critical scrutiny. In the third, I
Samuel Kahn
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Political judgment as the tragic: By examining and analyzing the thought of Martha Nussbaum [PDF]

رهیافتهای سیاسی و بین المللی, 2022
It is difficult to judge between normative worlds that are in conflict and contest with each other, because they do not have the same vocabulary, agreed rational standards, and common moral obligations.
mahmoud alipour
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On nature and reindeer luck

Rangifer, 2000
This paper describes the reindeer Sami understanding of a worthy life expressed in qualitative distinctions centred around the term 'reindeer luck'. Reindeer luck does not in itself mean a good life but is an ingredient of a good life.
Nils Oskal
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‘Do I feel lucky?’: Moral Luck, Bluffing and the Ethics of Eastwood's Outlaw-Lawman in Coogan's Bluff and the Dirty Harry Films

Film-Philosophy, 2017
In Coogan's Bluff (1968) and the Dirty Harry films, Clint Eastwood's characters often invoke luck when they want unpredictable others to assume some responsibility to stop violence, thereby implicating moral luck in heroism.
Joel Deshaye
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Aristotle and Contemporary Theories of Luck

Philosophies
Contemporary 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 Philosophy
On 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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Ethical Precision in Nanoscale Brain Interfacing

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
As brain interfaces approach the nanoscale, precision no longer only measures—it knows, predicts, and potentially reshapes the mind. This work argues that traditional ethics fails under such conditions and proposes a shift toward continuous, operation‐based governance using the recovery–discovery framework to track, constrain, and responsibly steer ...
Guilherme Wood
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Coping With Production Risk: Effects of Sown Plant Diversity on the Attractiveness of Crop Insurance in Grasslands

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Increased frequency of extreme weather events, particularly droughts, threatens grassland farming by destabilizing yields and farms' economic viability. We examine, theoretically and through numerical simulations, how sown plant diversity (natural insurance) influences the attractiveness of indemnity and drought index insurance (formal ...
Nicolas Alou, Sergei Schaub, Martin Quaas, Robert Finger   +3 more
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The Theft: An Analysis of Moral Agency

Conatus - Journal of Philosophy, 2020
Adam and Eve’s theft marks the beginning of the human career as moral agents.   This article will examine the assumptions underlying the notion of moral agency from the perspective of three unremarkable human beings who found themselves in situations of ...
Gerard Elfstrom
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