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Veil-of-ignorance reasoning mitigates self-serving bias in resource allocation during the COVID-19 crisis [PDF]
Judgment 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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Can the Veil of Ignorance Create Consensus? [PDF]
, 2021 This study aims to demonstrate the significance of the discussion under the “veil of ignorance” in building consensus about the Not In My Back Yard (NIMBY) issue.
Susumu Ohnuma +5 more
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X-Phi and Impartiality Thought Experiments: Investigating the Veil of Ignorance
Diametros, 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
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Can Rawls’ Theory of Distributive Justice Become a Cure for Poverty?
Annales 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
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The “Original Position” as Public Performance: Liberalism, Pluralism, and Asceticism
Religions, 2019 John Rawls’ well-known device of representation (his terminology) that he names the “original position” is put into play by the veil of ignorance.
Joseph Rivera
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Distributive Theories of Justice: From Utilitarianism and Back [PDF]
Антиномии, 2021 For half a century, the problem of justice has been one of the most controversial and debated in Western academic science. For the Anglo-American tradition, the starting point for controversy about distributive justice can be considered 1971, when the
Dmitry V. Balashov
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Is the Veil of Ignorance Transparent ? [PDF]
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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Egalitarianism Against the Veil of Ignorance [PDF]
Journal of Philosophy, 2002 J. Rawls and R. Dworkin have each used veils of ignorance to justify equality (Rawls) or to compute what equality entails (Dworkin). J. Harsanyi has also derived a distributive ethic from a veil of ignorance argument, which, although not egalitarian, is believed by Harsanyi to be not excessively inegalitarian.
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Lifting the veil of ignorance: An experiment on the contagiousness of norm violations [PDF]
Rationality and Society, 2015 Norm violations can be contagious. Previous research analyzed two mechanisms of why knowledge about others’ norm violations triggers its spread: (1) actors lower their subjective beliefs about the probability or severity of punishment or (2) they condition their compliance on others’ compliance. While earlier field studies could hardly disentangle both
Diekmann, Andreas +2 more
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Arbitration tech toolbox: The rawlsian ‘veil of ignorance’ and blockchain arbitration [PDF]
, 2023 I first discovered the resemblance between the concepts involved in blockchain arbitration and John Rawls’ ‘veil of ignorance’ while conducting research on the metaverse and arbitration.
Tulsyan, Aryan
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