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The Veil of Ignorance and Health Resource Allocation

Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 2012
Some authors view the veil of ignorance as a preferred method for allocating resources because it imposes impartiality by stripping deliberators of knowledge of their personal identity. Using some prominent examples of such reasoning in the health care sector, I will argue for the following claims.
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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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On Measuring Welfare ‘Behind a Veil of Ignorance’

Social Choice and Welfare, 2020
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The veil of public ignorance

Journal of Economic Theory, 2004
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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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Making the Veil of Ignorance Work

2021
This chapter purports to give empirical feedback on impartial reasoning to justice by using online survey experiments. More precisely, the study focuses on whether and how the different conceptions of the veil of ignorance and John Rawls’s method of reflective equilibrium affect real people’s impartial reasoning to justice.
Akira Inoue, Masahiro Zenkyo, Haruya Sakamoto   +2 more
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Veil of Ignorance in Rawlsian Theory

, 2017
As part of his effort to answer the question What is the best conception of justice for a democratic society? philosopher John Rawls constructed a thought experience called the original position.
von Platz, Jeppe
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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 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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