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Uncertainty behind the Veil of Ignorance [PDF]

Utilitas, 2012
This article 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 any given individual's place.
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Defining Death Behind the Veil of Ignorance

The Journal of Clinical Ethics, 2022
In this article I examine the question of how a liberal state should go about defining death. Plausible standards for a definition of death include a somatic one based on circulatory criteria, death by neurologic criteria (DNC), and higher brain death.
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The veil of public ignorance

Journal of Economic Theory, 2004
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On Measuring Welfare ‘Behind a Veil of Ignorance’

Social Choice and Welfare, 2020
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Public finance and welfare: From the ignorance of the veil to the veil of ignorance

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2006
Abstract Present-day welfare states may survive as long as bureaucracies and governments can create “optimistic” illusions among taxpayers–voters. This setting is destined to fail and indirectly to open up the pathway for a constitutional welfare state.
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Measuring the health of populations: the veil of ignorance approach [PDF]

Health Economics, 2004
AbstractWe report the results from two surveys designed to explore whether an application of Harsanyi's principle of choice form behind a veil of ignorance (VEI) can be used in order to measure the health of populations. This approach was tentatively recommended by Murray et al. (Bull.
José-Luis Pinto-Prades, José-María Abellán-Perpiñán   +1 more
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The ACA from behind the “Veil of Ignorance”

Hastings Center Report, 2017
AbstractJohn Rawls posited that we could determine the nature of justice if we imagined ourselves observing conditions in society from behind a hypothetical “veil of ignorance.” Not knowing how or where we would end up—rich, poor, empowered, disabled—we would choose governing principles that did not leave one disadvantaged because of his or her ...
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THE VEIL OF IGNORANCE VIOLATES PRIORITY

Economics and Philosophy, 2008
The veil of ignorance has been used often as a tool for recommending what justice requires with respect to the distribution of wealth. We complete Harsanyi's model of the veil of ignorance by appending information permitting objective comparisons among persons. In order to do so, we introduce the concept of objective empathy.
Juan D. Moreno-Ternero, John E. Roemer
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THE SHAPLEY VALUE, THE OWEN VALUE, AND THE VEIL OF IGNORANCE

International Game Theory Review, 2009
We show that the Owen value for TU games with a cooperation structure extends the Shapley value in a consistent way. In particular, the Shapley value is the expected Owen value for all symmetric distributions on the partitions of the player set. Similar extensions of the Banzhaf value do not show this property.
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Perdurantism, fecklessness and the veil of ignorance

Philosophical Studies, 2019
There has been a growing charge that perdurantism—with its bloated ontology of very person-like objects that coincide persons—implies the repugnant conclusion that we are morally obliged to be feckless. I argue that this charge critically overlooks the epistemic situation—what I call the ‘veil of ignorance’—that perdurantists find themselves in. Though
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