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Justice, Luck, and Knowledge
Posted by: adimantis on Thursday, August 26, 2004 - 05:57 PM
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Book: Justice, Luck, and Knowledge, Susan Hurley (Harvard)
Marc Fleurbaey: "In Justice, Luck, and Knowledge, Susan Hurley does a great service to the theory of egalitarianism by doing what most authors have shied away from doing so far, namely, opening the black box of "responsibility" in order to examine how the various conceptions of responsibility can inform the debate about the just allocation of resources in an egalitarian society. She ends up arguing in favor of disconnecting social responsibility (or accountability) from moral responsibility, so that moral responsibility need not determine exactly what is equalized in society, although, in her approach, it can still play some role in constraining the degree of redistribution (via incentives and its effect on well-being). "more(PDF)
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Weakness of Will and Practical Irrationality
Posted by: adimantis on Monday, August 23, 2004 - 10:01 PM
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Book: Weakness of Will and Practical Irrationality, Sarah Stroud and Christine Tappolet, eds.,Oxford, 2003, 317pp
Patrick Henry Yarnell: "This book contains eleven articles and includes works by some of the leading theorists in the field of practical rationality. It also contains an introduction (by editors Stroud and Tappolet) that succinctly summarizes the main themes, arguments, and concerns of the text. Despite much overlap and interconnectedness, the book’s articles can be categorized in terms of three general strategies/aims of the contributing authors:
(1) To illuminate the implications that akrasia (and other specific sorts of putative practical breakdown) have for general theories of practical rationality,
(2) To identify the mental entities and capacities we need to postulate in order to explain practical failures (and successes) like weakness (or strength) of will, and
(3) To clarify the nature of akrasia, etc., and explain how rifts between evaluation and motivation arise." more
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An Evening of Music and Philosophy
Posted by: adimantis on Thursday, August 19, 2004 - 08:36 AM
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smh.com.au: "A self-avowed music nut, [Simon] Critchley has long tortured himself with an unanswerable question: why do humans like music?
Tired of wondering alone, he is teaming up with John Simmons, a friend and musician, for a performance called Sounding Desire: An Evening of Music and Philosophy, at the Sydney Opera House on Monday.
During the performance, Critchley meanders pleasantly, often hilariously, through history and between musical genres, drawing his audience deeper into a philosophical issue that has confounded great thinkers from Pythagoras to Nietzsche. He asks the big questions: does music reflect mathematical harmony? Is it the key by which we enter the mind of God?" more
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