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The veil of ignorance can favour biological cooperation [PDF]
David Queller, Joan E Strassmann
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Understanding and criticizing criminal justice on the basis of Rawls' Veil of Ignorance [PDF]
"A Theory of Justice" is a project in the Kantian school by John Rawls, the twentieth-century philosopher. The "Veil of Ignorance" is one of the prominent notions of his theory of justice, which is born in another abstract concept as the "Original ...
Bozorgmehr Bashiriyeh +3 more
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Power indices and the veil of ignorance [PDF]
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Annick Laruelle, Federico Valenciano
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Taxation behind the veil of ignorance
We explore the design of impartial tax schemes in a simple setup where agents’ incomes are completely determined by their inborn talents. Building on Harsanyi’s veil-of-ignorance approach, we conceptualize an impartial observer who chooses a tax scheme without knowing her own preferences and the distribution of talents, and whose vNM preferences behind
Biung-Ghi Ju, Juan D. Moreno-Ternero
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Behind the veil of ignorance: Self-serving bias in climate change negotiations [PDF]
Slowing climate change will almost certainly require a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, but agreement on who should reduce emissions by how much is difficult, in part because of the self-serving bias—the tendency to believe that what is beneficial ...
Peter H. Kriss +3 more
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JUSTICE FROM NOWHERE: ETHICO-POLITICAL OBJECTIVITY IN THOMAS NAGEL AND JOHN RAWLS
The question regarding the relationship between ethics and politics has always occupied the minds of philosophers and political theorists. Thomas Nagel is one philosopher among others who clearly draws a close link between the ethical and the political ...
Hatice Karaman
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This study demonstrates that a decision-making process utilising ‘the veil of ignorance’ concept, defined in process terms as beginning from a blank slate encompassing the entire country as potential sites and shortlisting candidate sites based on ...
Miki Yokoyama +4 more
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Veil-of-ignorance reasoning mitigates self-serving bias in resource allocation during the COVID-19 crisis [PDF]
The COVID-19 crisis has forced healthcare professionals to make tragic decisions concerning which patients to save. Furthermore, The COVID-19 crisis has foregrounded the influence of self-serving bias in debates on how to allocate scarce resources.
Karen Huang +4 more
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X-Phi and Impartiality Thought Experiments: Investigating the Veil of Ignorance
This paper discusses “impartiality thought experiments”, i.e., thought experiments that attempt to generate intuitions which are unaffected by personal characteristics such as age, gender or race.
Norbert Paulo, Thomas Pölzler
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Can Rawls’ Theory of Distributive Justice Become a Cure for Poverty?
Rawls, a leading thinker of our time, attempted to develop an understanding of justice that reconciles liberty and equality in his work A Theory of Justice (1971).
Ülker Yükselbaba
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