Justice, Luck, and Knowledge

S. L. Hurley

    Introduction: Responsibility and Justice

    I. RESPONSIBILITY

    1. Philosophical Landscape: The New Articulation of Responsibility

    2. Why Alternate Sequences Are Irrelevant to Responsibility

    3. Why Responsibility Is Not Essentially Impossible

    4. Responsibility, Luck, and the "Natural Lottery"

    II. JUSTICE

    5. Philosophical Landscape: The Luck-Neutralizing Approach to Distributive Justice

    6. Why the Aim to Neutralize Luck Cannot Provide a Basis for Egalitarianism

    7. Roemer on Responsibility and Equality

    8. The Currency of Distributive Justice and Incentive Inequality

    9. The Real Roles of Responsibility in Justice

    10 From Ignorance to Maximin: A Bias-Neutralizing Alternative

    Appendix: Outline of the Arguments

    Bibliography

    Index

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S. L. Hurley was Professor at the University of Warwick.