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by Gaus, Gerald;


  reactive attitudes, 181–82, 216

  realistic utopia, xix, 4, 35, 40, 63, 103, 140

  recombination, 337ff

  recommending, vii, 9, 15–17, 41, 56, 69, 74–76, 81, 89, 94, 142, 218

  reconciliation, 35, 83

  Reform and Order perspectives 237ff

  Reid, J., xxi

  religious perspectives, xix, 30, 122, 161–64, 172–74, 185, 200, 204, 244, 249

  Reno, R., 212

  republican communities of moral inquiry, 97, 143–47, 174, 217, 243

  resentment, 181

  Residual Prohibition Principle, 190–98

  responsibility. See accountability

  reversibility, 170

  Ricardo, D., 219

  Richerson, P., xvii, 186, 235

  rights, 108–10, 113–15, 123, 138, 144, 147, 157, 166–68, 171–72, 199ff, 209, 217, 223. See also jurisdictions

  Riker, William, xv

  Risse, M., 225

  Robespierre, M., 88

  Robeyns, I., xvi, 4, 7

  Robson, L., xxi

  Rousseau, J., 42

  Rubinstein, A., xvi

  rugged landscapes, 61, 65–73, 76–79, 80–84, 101, 112, 242; explored by liberal and republican approaches, 98; and Hong-Page theorem, 112; moderate, 102; multiperspectivaal searching on, 104; optimization on, 66, 70, 78; need not assume NK analysis, 65ff; searching via diversity, 111. See also high dimensional landscapes

  rule(s). See injunctive rules; norms; public moral constitution

  rules of regulation, 20, 248–49

  Saari, D., 225

  sanctity, 161

  Santos-Lang, C., 132

  Satz, D., 73, 203

  Savant Existence Theorem, 120

  Sayers, D., 248

  Scanlon, T., 68

  Schmidtz, D., xvi, xxi, 7

  Schneider, G., 97, 137, 261

  Schotter, A., 226

  Schwab, D., 222

  Schwartz, P., 33

  secular, 149, 161–4

  Sen, A., xv, xvii, xix–xx, 3, 5–11, 21, 29, 39, 41, 47, 51–52, 55–56, 60, 62, 67, 73, 78–80, 83–84, 101, 113, 140, 144, 155–58, 162, 173, 178, 188, 190, 208–9, 211, 214, 257; and advanced multiple impartial spectators, 155; advances a secular normalized ontology, 162; analysis of maximal sets, 210; on Buridan’s ass, 210; can accommodate directional information, 9; charge that Rawls is institutional fundamentalist, 21; claim that knowledge of the ideal is not necessary 5ff, 142; climbing model, 62, 73; and commensurates via aggregation system, 199; committed to secular normalized perspective, 163; comparative approach analyzed, 6ff; conditions under which his rejection of ideal theory is sound, 8; fully normalizes social worlds, 158ff; fundamental insight, 144; has a constant improvement model, 242; comparative of is not incrementalist, 10; contrasted to Muldoon’s diversity analysis, 166; how his theory accommodates partial normalization, 154ff; integrates diverse evaluative standards, 173; on interperspectival justice, 175; on models, xvii; proposes a unidimensional analysis makes the ideal otiose, 11; on rationality of choice from maximal set, 225; social choice approach of, 7; on the straightjacket of social contract theory, 208; two interpretations of his pairwise approach, 8; unidimensional climbing model, 39; use of Pareto rule, 157–60

  Shikher, S., 94

  Sidgwick, H., 20, 86

  similarity, 52–56, 61–65, 73, 79, 92, 99–108, 122–23, 126, 141, 145, 173, 242, 251ff, 256, 259; based on pairwise judgments, 53, 251; cut loose from evaluative core in Hong-Page model, 126; determines neighborhood, 115; disagreement about between evaluation normalized perspectives, 107; and distance metrics, 100; as distinct element of justice, 10; in Hong-Page Theorem, 114; in N-dimensional space, 258ff; and neighborhoods, 100; judgments internal to a perspective, 53; Keynes’s problems with basing on pairwise comparisons, 253ff; metric, 60, 120–21; ordering, 54–55, 61, 73, 123; orders of, 254; overall, 53; perspectives rearranging, 123; related to other elements of a perspective, 131

  Simmons, A., 6–10, 41, 56, 62–63, 67, 83, 87, 143

  sin, 161, 249

  Skyrms, B., xv

  small-world networks, 146–47. See also networks

  Smith, A., 137, 155, 198

  Smith, N., 205

  Smith, P., 69

  social choice theory/approach, xvii, 7, 9–10, 47; cannot accommodate significant differences about the justice-relevant features of the social worlds, 174; importance of information that goes into aggregation, 257; must normalize social worlds, 158, 161–62; social choice/welfare functionals, 257; supposes common feasible set, 159

  social contract, xv, 42, 144, 151, 168–69, 172, 175, 208–9, 223; continual revision of, 172; and deadlock under disagreement, 208ff; as dynamic, 169–70; Muldoon’s non-normalized version of, 165–66; Rawls’s search for determinate contract through normalization, 150ff; and reversibility, 170

  social experimentation, 72, 89–94, 103, 186, 207

  social networks. See networks

  social realizations, 21–41, 44, 50, 64, 66, 77–78, 92–95, 101, 116, 122, 141–42, 170

  Social Realizations Condition, 18ff, 40–51, 55–56, 62, 67–71, 76, 83–84, 95, 101, 105, 107, 139, 140–41, 241, 248

  social worlds, xvi, 4, 24, 35, 40–56, 63–80, 83, 89–92, 101, 106, 120, 122, 138, 161–64, 173, 220, 255; cannot be described by rigid designators, 128ff; comprehensive v. public, 177; defined by its justice-relevant features, 124, 128ff; description of, 43; difficulty communicating insights about, 129, 133; disagreement about an important root of moral diversity, 161–2; disputes about central to abortion debate, 163; discovered in social experiments, 90; diversity of in Muldoon’s contract, 165–68; employed in CI procedure, 23; and ethics of creation, 30; feasibility of, 29ff; fully normalized in social choice approaches, 158; impossible, 38; individuation of, 45; intermediate, 40; modeling feasibility of, 34; neighborhoods of, 76; nonideal, 40; nonexistent, 50; of the Open Society, 176–78; pairwise comparisons of, 8, 29; partitioning of, 159; perturbed, 22; political philosophy leading us to affirm, 35; presupposed by ideal of justice, 29; probability distribution of, 34; Rawls on 177ff; of religious citizens, 162; rough continuum of, 81; Sen cannot allow differing descriptions of, 158; small, 160, 201; in small-scale experiments, 89; social theorist as inventor of, 93; social-world proximity, 41; when all our knowledge is supplied by models of, 95; that we know best 76ff; where Rawlsian justice is not satisfied by the two principles, 24

  socialism, xvi, 19, 77, 85–88, 90, 100, 124, 135, 138, 143, 146, 201. See also market socialism; utopian socialism

  Sopher, B., 226

  Southwood, N., 60

  Special Conception of Justice, 25, 49

  Saint-Just, L., 88

  Stability/robustness, 230ff

  Stag Hunt, 213

  Stalinism, 143

  Stemplowska, Z., 1, 4–5, 7, 12, 37, 48–49

  Stephen, J., xxi, 137

  Stich, S., xxi

  Strawson, P., 181–82

  Strogatz, S., 146

  Sugden, R., xv, 213

  Sunstein, C., 97, 263

  Surowiecki, J., 95

  Swift, A., 4, 12, 15

  taboo trades, 203

  Tanner, E., 78

  Taylor, K., 2, 4, 45, 60, 82, 85

  Temkin, L., 47

  Tetlock, P., 203, 252–53

  theorem of the second best, 14–15, 68

  Thompson, J., 111

  Thrasher, xxi, 151, 168, 180

  Tiananmen Square Massacre, 133

  Tietz, R., 205

  Tito, J., 135

  Tomasi, J., 63, 138, 164

  transitivity, 8, 47, 60, 156

  truth, 7, 14, 34, 57, 84, 248

  Tullock, G., 171, 180

  Ultimatum Game, 204–5, 227–8.

  utopia/utopian, 1–5, 13–16, 32–36, 39–40, 45, 51–52, 60, 63, 73, 77–75, 85, 88–89, 94, 134, 225; always incompletely known, 141; assertion that we have comprehensive knowledge of, 106; aspiration frustrated in Open Society, 247; brought in
to neighborhood, 123; and The Choice, 144; conditions guaranteeing its location, 112; implausibility of claim that justice is a fixed point not subject to revision, 170; in principle can be brought into our neighborhood, 121; progress from one to the next, 86; wandering, 84ff. See also global optimum; ideal justice; ideal theory; paradise

  Utopia Is at Hand Theorem, 120ff, 128

  Utopian Socialism, 2, 19, 78. See also socialism

  utopophobe, 16

  Valentini, L., 1, 5, 7, 23, 26, 36, 38

  Vallier, K., xxi, 72

  van Damme, E., 205

  Van Schoelandt, C., xxi, 169, 178, 202, 207, 222

  Vanderschraaf, P., xv, 223

  veil of ignorance, xv, 37, 151–53, 171

  von Mises, L., 137

  Wagner, C., 97, 261

  Waldron, J., 174

  Waldrop, M., 69, 199

  Wall, S., 188, 217

  Ward, B., 135, 145

  Wattenmaker, W., 252

  Watts, D., 146

  Webb, S., 136

  Weber, R., 131

  Weingast, B., 207

  WEIRD morality, 164

  Weisberg, M., 235

  Weithman, P., 23, 35, 144, 231, 249

  Weitzman, M., 53–5, 255–6

  welfare state (capitalism), 124–25

  well-ordered society, xi, 152–54; 245ff

  Wiens, D., xv, 5, 14, 17, 23–5, 31, 45, 49–50, 58–59

  Wilde, O., 1, 3, 85–86, 134

  Wiles, P., 125, 135, 201

  Williamson, T., 72

  Wittgenstein, L., 193

  Wolff, R., 151, 163

  world features (relevant to justice), 43–56, 63, 66, 70, 79, 86, 90–92, 99, 107, 114, 116, 122, 126–27, 130, 145, 159–60, 174, 201. See also categorizations

  Young, I., 206

  Zhao, S., 97, 261

  Zhou, X., 79

 

 

 


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