The varieties of impartiality, or, would an egalitarian endorse the veil?
Social contract theorists often take the ideal contract to be the agreement or bargain individuals would make in some privileged choice situation (i.e., an 'original position'). Recently, experimental philosophers have explored this kind of decision-making in the lab. One rather robust finding is th...
| Publicado en: | Philosophical Studies Vol. 177; no. 2; pp. 459 - 478 |
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