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Published in 2019 at "Synthese"
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-019-02455-8
Abstract: The veil of ignorance argument was used by John C. Harsanyi to defend Utilitarianism and by John Rawls to defend the absolute priority of the worst off. In a recent paper, Lara Buchak revives the…
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Published in 2021 at "Nature Communications"
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-23910-6
Abstract: Rawls argued that fairness in human societies can be achieved if decisions about the distribution of societal rewards are made from behind a veil of ignorance, which obscures the personal gains that result. Whether ignorance…
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Published in 2023 at "Journal of the History of Philosophy"
DOI: 10.1353/hph.2023.0018
Abstract: abstract:Cardinal Sforza Pallavicino, SJ (1607–67), conceived a procedure for determining natural moral laws by voting under a veil of ignorance. Behind this veil, imagined possible people who are ignorant of their social position, personal characteristics,…
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