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The veil of ignorance can favour biological cooperation [PDF]

open access: yesBiology Letters, 2013
David Queller, Joan E Strassmann
exaly   +2 more sources

Understanding and criticizing criminal justice on the basis of Rawls' Veil of Ignorance [PDF]

open access: yesFaṣlnāmah-i Pizhūhish-i Huqūq-i ̒Umūmī, 2022
"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
doaj   +1 more source

Power indices and the veil of ignorance [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Game Theory, 2003
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Annick Laruelle, Federico Valenciano
openaire   +1 more source

Taxation behind the veil of ignorance

open access: yesSocial Choice and Welfare, 2021
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
openaire   +2 more sources

Behind the veil of ignorance: Self-serving bias in climate change negotiations [PDF]

open access: yesJudgment and Decision Making, 2011
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
doaj   +2 more sources

JUSTICE FROM NOWHERE: ETHICO-POLITICAL OBJECTIVITY IN THOMAS NAGEL AND JOHN RAWLS

open access: yesToplum ve Kültür Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2023
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
doaj   +1 more source

Public acceptance of nuclear waste disposal sites: a decision-making process utilising the ‘veil of ignorance’ concept

open access: yesHumanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2023
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
doaj   +1 more source

Veil-of-ignorance reasoning mitigates self-serving bias in resource allocation during the COVID-19 crisis [PDF]

open access: yesJudgment and Decision Making, 2021
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

open access: yesDiametros, 2020
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
doaj   +1 more source

Can Rawls’ Theory of Distributive Justice Become a Cure for Poverty?

open access: yesAnnales de la Faculté de Droit d’Istanbul, 2022
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
doaj   +1 more source

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