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Moral Decision Making: From Bentham to Veil of Ignorance via Perspective Taking Accessibility [PDF]
Behavioral Sciences, 2021 Making morally sensitive decisions and evaluations pervade many human everyday activities. Philosophers, economists, psychologists and behavioural scientists researching such decision-making typically explore the principles, processes and predictors that
Rose Martin +4 more
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A veil of ignorance can promote fairness in a mammal society [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2021 Obscuring knowledge of personal gains from individuals can theoretically maintain fairness in a cooperative group. Experiments show that wild, cooperatively breeding banded mongooses uncertain of kinship allocate postnatal care in a way that reduces ...
H. H. Marshall +10 more
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Is the Veil of Ignorance Transparent?
Œconomia, 2011 Theories of justice in the spirit of Rawls and Harsanyi argue that fair-minded people should aspire to make choices for society as if in the original position, that is, behind a veil of ignorance that prevents them from knowing their own social positions.
Gaël Giraud, Cécile Renouard
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Veil-of-ignorance reasoning favors the greater good. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2019 The “veil of ignorance” is a moral reasoning device designed to promote impartial decision making by denying decision makers access to potentially biasing information about who will benefit most or least from the available options. Veil-of-ignorance reasoning was originally applied by philosophers and economists to foundational questions ...
Huang K, Greene JD, Bazerman M.
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Uncertainty behind the veil of ignorance [PDF]
Utilitas, 2011 This paper argues that the decision problem in the original position should be characterized as a decision problem under uncertainty even when it is assumed that the denizens of the original position know that they have an equal chance of ending up in ...
A. FAIK KURTULMUS +12 more
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The veil of ignorance can favour biological cooperation. [PDF]
Biol Lett, 2013 Lack of information is a constraint but ignorance can sometimes assist the evolution of cooperation by constraining selfishness. We discuss examples involving both ignorance of role or pay-off and ignorance of relatedness. Ignorance can favour cooperative traits like grouping and warning coloration and reduce conflicts from meiotic drive, imprinting ...
Queller DC, Strassmann JE.
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- POWER INDICES AND THE VEIL OF IGNORANCE [PDF]
International Journal of Game Theory, 2003 We provide an axiomatic foundation of the expected utility preferences over lotteries on roles in simple superadditive games represented by the two main power indices, the Shapley-Shubik index and the Banzhaf index, when they are interpreted as von ...
Annick Laruelle, Federico Valenciano
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Taking Risks Behind the Veil of Ignorance [PDF]
Ethics, 2017 A natural view in distributive ethics is that everyone's interests matter, but the interests of the relatively worse off matter more than the interests of the relatively better off. I provide a new argument for this view.
Lara, Buchak
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Meridiano 47, 2017 The article analyzes the process of approving by the Brazilian Parliament of the results of the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) in 1994.
Rogério de Souza Farias
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Lifting the veil of ignorance: An experiment on the contagiousness of norm violations [PDF]
Rationality and Society, 2015 Norm violations can be contagious. Previous research analyzed two mechanisms of why knowledge about others’ norm violations triggers its spread: (1) Actors lower their subjective beliefs about the probability or severity of punishment, or (2) they ...
Andreas Diekmann +2 more
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