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Veil-of-ignorance reasoning favors the greater good [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 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 ...
Karen Huang +2 more
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Moral Decision Making: From Bentham to Veil of Ignorance via Perspective Taking Accessibility [PDF]
Behavioral Sciences (Basel, Switzerland), 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, Petko Kusev, Joseph Teal
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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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Ambiguity aversion behind the veil of ignorance [PDF]
SynthÈse, 2019 AbstractThe veil of ignorance argument was used by John C. Harsanyi to defend Utilitarianism and by John Rawls to defend the absolute priority of the worst off. In a recent paper, Lara Buchak revives the veil of ignorance argument, and uses it to defend an intermediate position between Harsanyi’s and Rawls’ that she calls Relative Prioritarianism. None
H Orri Stefansson
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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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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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Not the Last Word: Masks and the Veil of Ignorance. [PDF]
Clin Orthop Relat Res, 2021 Bernstein J.
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ANALYSIS OF THE MAIN NOTIONS OF J.RAWLS‘ "A THEORY OF JUSTICE"
Problemos, 1999 The article presents and overviews the main concepts of "A Theory of Justice" by J. Rawls such as justice, subject of justice, ideas of cooperation and well ordered society, veil of ignorance, rationality of the original situation, principles of justice,
Goda Izabelė Izabelė Venslauskaitė
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Discrimination in games under the veil of ignorance
International Journal of Game TheoryAbstract In this paper, we study descriptive norms under the veil of ignorance in symmetric coordination and anti-coordination games. We consider a finite population formed by different types of individuals. Players observe the type of their opponent but play under the veil of ignorance, i.e., act as if they did not know their own type.
Annick Laruelle
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The veil of ignorance can favour biological cooperation [PDF]
Biology Letters, 2013 David C Queller, Joan E Strassmann
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