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Five Questions on Political Philosophy
(Automatic Press, 2006)
Peter Vallentyne answers five questions posed by the editor of the text on the nature of political philosophy.
On Original Appropriation
(Ashgate, 2007)
Libertarianism holds that agents initially fully own themselves. Lockean libertarianism further holds that agents have the moral power to acquire private property in external things as long as a Lockean Proviso—requiring ...
Responsibility and Compensation Rights
(Routledge, 2009)
I address an issue that arises for rights theories that recognize rights to compensation for rights-intrusions. Do individuals who never pose any risk of harm to others have a right, against a rights-intruder, to full ...
Answers to Five Questions on Normative Ethics
(Automatic Press, 2007)
This article comprises the author's answers to five questions on Normative Ethics posed by the editors of the collection.
Justice in General: An Introduction
(Routledge, 2003)
This is the first volume of Equality and Justice, a six-volume collection of the most important articles of the twentieth century on the topic of justice and equality. This volume addresses the following three (only loosely ...
Distribution of What?: An Introduction
(Routledge, 2003)
This is the fourth volume of Equality and Justice, a six-volume collection of the most important articles of the twentieth century on the topic of justice and equality. This volume and the second part of Volume 5: Social ...
Social Contract and the Currency of Justice: An Introduction
(Routledge, 2003)
This is the fifth volume of Equality and Justice, a six-volume collection of the most important articles of the twentieth century on the topic of justice and equality. This volume addresses two issues: (1) contractarian ...
Person-Affecting Paretian Egalitarianism with Variable Population Size
(Palgrave-Macmillan, 2007)
Where there is a fixed population (i.e., who exists does not depend on what choice an agent makes), the deontic version of anonymous Paretian egalitarianism holds that an option is just if and only if (1) it is anonymously ...
Against Maximizing Act-Consequentialism
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2006)
Maximizing act consequentialism holds that actions are morally permissible if and only if they maximize the value of consequences—if and only if, that is, no alternative action in the given choice situation has more valuable ...
Who are the least advantaged?
(Clarendon Press, 2007)
The difference principle, introduced by Rawls (1971, 1993), is generally interpreted as leximin, but this is not how he intended it. Rawls explicitly states that the difference principle requires that aggregate benefits ...
Left-libertarianism: A primer
(Palgrave-Macmillan, 2000)
Left-libertarian theories of justice hold that agents are full self-owners and that natural resources are owned in some egalitarian manner. Unlike most versions of egalitarianism, left-libertarianism endorses full ...
Cryptographic applications of sparse polynomials over finite rings
(2001)
This paper gives new examples that exploit the idea of using sparse polynomials with restricted coefficients over a finite ring for designing fast, reliable cryptosystems and identification schemes.
On the dimension of the Jacquet module of a certain induced representation
(2001)
The Fourier coefficients of certain metaplectic Eisenstein series contain L-series of arithmetic interest. This fact has been repeatedly exploited by various authors in order to obtain analytic information about these ...
Brute Luck Equality and Desert
(Oxford University Press, 2003)
In recent years, interest in desert-based theories of justice has increased, and this seems to represent a challenge to equality- based theories of justice. The best distribution of outcome-advantage with respect to desert, ...
Distribution to Whom?: An Introduction
(Routledge, 2003)
This is the third volume of Equality and Justice, a six-volume collection of the most important articles of the twentieth century on the topic of justice and equality. This volume addresses the question of who (animals, ...
Left-Libertarianism and Liberty
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2009)
I shall formulate and motivate a left- libertarian theory of justice. Like the more familiar right-libertarianism, it holds that agents initially fully own themselves. Unlike right-libertarianism, it holds that natural ...
Distributive Justice
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2007)
In general, I shall focus on justice as what we morally owe each other. I shall therefore briefly elaborate on this concept of justice. As long as rights are understood very broadly as—perhaps pro tanto and highly ...
Libertarian Theories of Intergenerational Justice
(Oxford University Press, 2009)
We here discuss and assess various libertarian positions on intergenerational justice. We do not attempt to defend libertarianism. Instead, we work out the most plausible version thereof and identify its implications for ...
Sen on Sufficiency, Priority, and Equality
(Cambridge University Press, 2009)
I present a critical survey of Sen's work, and related work by others, on certain distribution-sensitive principles of justice. More specifically, I discuss three kinds of such principles: (1) sufficientarian principles, ...
Teacher Compensation and Collective Bargaining
(Elsevier, 2010)
While compensation accounts for roughly 90 percent of K-12 instructional costs, there is little evidence of rational design in these systems. This chapter reviews the nature of teacher compensation systems in developed ...