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Rule Over None II: Social Equality and the Justification of Democracy by KOLODNY, NIKO

“…The concern for democracy is rooted in a concern not to have anyone else above--or, for that matter, below--one. In this article, I try to explicate what…”
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On statistical criteria of algorithmic fairness by Hedden, Brian

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Virtue Signaling and Moral Progress by Westra, Evan

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Moral Grandstanding by Tosi, Justin, Warmke, Brandon

“…Kurt Baier wrote that “moral talk is often rather repugnant. Leveling moral accusations, expressing moral indignation, passing moral judgment, allotting the…”
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Future People, the Non-Identity Problem, and Person-Affecting Principles by PARFIT, DEREK

“…When I first thought about the Non-Identity Problem, I assumed that most people would accept the No Difference View. That is not yet true. Of those who have…”
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Democratic Equality and Political Authority by VIEHOFF, DANIEL

“…Before this article develops its own justification of the egalitarian authority claim, it considers two prominent arguments that link democratic authority to a…”
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Ideal and Nonideal Theory by SIMMONS, A. JOHN

“…One of the many distinctions introduced in John Rawls's monumental work, A Theory of Justice, was that between the ideal and the nonideal theories of justice…”
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Against Elections: The Lottocratic Alternative by GUERRERO, ALEXANDER A.

“…It is widely accepted that electoral representative democracy is better--along a number of different normative dimensions--than any other alternative lawmaking…”
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The Reasonable and the Relevant: Legal Standards of Proof by Gardiner, Georgi

“…A common conception holds that epistemic justification is a matter of probabilistic likelihood given the evidence . On this widely held view, a claim is…”
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Utopophobia by ESTLUND, DAVID

“…We are told, by Machiavelli and others, that political philosophy must not be utopian. I am sure there is wisdom in this, but there is also the danger of a…”
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Individuality as Difference by Kahane, Guy

“…The idea that we should respect difference is everywhere these days: think corporate circulars, the clichéd lesson of the lazy B-movie, or (I swear) the theme…”
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A New Philosophy for International Law by DWORKIN, RONALD

“…As many philosophers have pointed out, there is mystery in the bare assumption that promising creates obligation. How can an individual change his moral…”
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Perfectionist Liberalism and Political Liberalism by NUSSBAUM, MARTHA C.

“…Nussbaum discusses the difference between perfectionist liberalism and political liberalism. She notes here that the views of Isaiah Berlin are an influential…”
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Vandalizing Tainted Commemorations by Lim, Chong‐Ming

“…My aims in this article are twofold. The first aim is to clarify the nature of commemorations and the disagreements about their treatment. In Section II, I…”
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Statistical Evidence, Sensitivity, and the Legal Value of Knowledge by ENOCH, DAVID, SPECTRE, LEVI, FISHER, TALIA

“…Enoch et al accommodate the distinction between statistical and individual evidence. In the relevantly paradigmatic cases statistical evidence is epistemically…”
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Reconciling Algorithmic Fairness Criteria by Beigang, Fabian

“…When the discussion about algorithmic fairness first started to receive academic attention, much of the debate was about criteria that use aggregate statistics…”
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High Risk, Low Reward: A Challenge to the Astronomical Value of Existential Risk Mitigation by Thorstad, David

“…Derek Parfit invites us to consider two scenarios. In the first, a war kills 99% of the world's human population. Such an event, Parfit urges, would be a great…”
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Empowering Workers by Parr, Tom

“…There's a great deal of anxiety about the current state of the labor market, and especially the employment opportunities available to less advantaged members…”
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Universal Statism by Kern, Adam

“…Philosophers have debated whether socio-economic inequalities between people who do not share a state can be unjust. The battle lines are familiar…”
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From Stranger to Parent: Duties of Care in Intentional Pregnancies by Wasserman, David

“…Two years before Roe v. Wade was decided, Judith Jarvis Thomson's landmark “Defense of Abortion”1 attempted to shift the debate from the moral status of the…”
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