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  Index

  abortion, 162

  abstraction, xvii, 1, 36ff

  accountability, 20, 180ff, 208, 211–12, 216–18, 230, 233, 243, 246

  Ahn, W., 252

  Aligica, P., xxii, 184, 186

  All Liberal Liberties Are Specifically Justified Principle, 191

  ambiguity of rules, 226–34

  American Civil War, 57

  animal rights, 164

  Archimedean perspective, 150–51, 210

  Arneson, R., 216

  Arrow, K., xv, 225, 257–58

  Ashby, F., 252

  autonomy, 109, 126, 162

  Auyang, S., 69

  Bacon, F., 4, 13, 51, 87–88

  Baier, K., 215, 232

  Bajaj, S., xxi

  Barrett, J., xxi

  Barry, B., xx, 230

  Barry, C., 23, 26

  Bellamy, E., 51, 77, 86, 88, 121

  Benn, S., 188–89, 191–92, 196

  Berlin, I., 148, 220, 222, 241, 244

  Berretty, P., 252

  Bicchieri, C., xv, 77, 179, 185–86, 205–6, 212–13, 227–29

  Binmore, K., xv

  bleeding-heart libertarian, 63–65, 138. See also libertarianism

  Boettke, P., 184

  Borgida, M., 147, 219

  Bowles, S., 181

  Boyd, R., xvii, 186, 235

  Brennan, G., xvi, 51, 56, 60

  Bringhurst, P., xxi, 182

  Broome, J., 46

  Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka, 17

  Buchanan, J., xv, 171, 179–80

  Buck-Morss, S., 13

  Buridan’s ass, 210–11

  Camerer, F., 131

  Canini, K., 252

  capitalism, 100, 125, 135. See also welfare state capitalism

  Carey, B., 31–32

  Carroll, L., 42

  Castelli, I., 228

  categorical judgments of justice, 45ff

  categorizations, 43, 164, 166, 195. See also world features

  Chapman, J., 125

  Chavez, A., 227–28

  Chen, H., 97, 261

  Choice, The, 82–84, 87, 105, 121, 139, 142–44, 242, 246–47

  Chow, J., xxi

  Christians/Christianity, 149, 161–63, 172, 185, 200. See also religious perspectives

  Christiano, T., xxi

  Chwe, M., 183

  Cialdini, R., 212

  CI-procedure, 22ff

  circumstances of justice, 223

  classical liberalism, 108, 138.

  climbing model, 5ff, 51–52, 56, 62, 78–83, 101, 113, 140, 143

  Cohen, G., xvi, xix, 18–19, 25–27, 30, 77, 89, 102, 138, 143, 230, 248

  common projection of perspectives, 159ff, 166, 203

  comparative judgments of justice, 46ff

  complexity, 68–69, 199, 236, 255

  complexity catastrophe, 68–69

  complexity reducing, 198ff

  Comprehensive Knowledge Assumption, 76, 79, 106

  conservatism/conservative, 10, 134–38, 146, 198, 235–39

  constitutional political economy, 179

  Coons, C., xx

  Copernicus, N., 35

  Cuffaro, M., 147, 219

  Cummins, D., 192

  D’Agostino, F., xv, xxi, 35, 47, 64, 72, 79, 93, 96–97, 127, 133–6, 145, 199, 200–202, 221, 253

  Dale, D., 90

  de Waal, F., 249

  decisiveness, 189–97

  democracy, 35, 72, 112, 136, 143, 202, 225, 261

  deontology, 21, 23, 158

  descriptive norms, 212–3, 227. See also norms

  desert, 155, 158, 242

  determinate solution, the, 226, 239

  Dewey, J., 138

  difference principle, 20, 24–25, 74–75

  distance of social worlds, 9, 11, 41, 52–6, 60, 62, 75, 78, 92, 99–103, 107–8, 123, 138, 145, 173, 258. See also proximity of social worlds

  diversity, xxi, 20, 54, 55, 90, 95–6, 103, 106, 110, 112, 114, 236, 259; accommodating per se, 176; benefits of, 133ff; contagion, 132ff, 139, 146; deep, 144ff; as deep disagreements about the nature of the social world, 165; dilemmas of, 114ff; and distance contracting metrics, 99; Hong-Page Theorem about the benefits of, 116; and the liberal approach, 97; management of, 132, 145; maximized under liberal inquiry, 145; meaningful theory of, 53; measures of, 256; minimal, between perspectives, 98; and miscommunication, 98–100; in the Open Society, 149; of perspectives, 131; within perspectives 93ff; of perspectives can solve rugged optimization problems, 243; among perspectives expanding neighborhood, 99; predictive 261ff; of reasonable views, 157; as resource of Open Society, 230ff; seen as a threat to stability, 231; and small world networks, 148; and social welfare functions, 201; suppressed in social choice approach, 174; and the work of Ostroms, 184

  Diversity Prediction Theorem, 94, 118, 261–63

  Diversity Trumps Ability Theorem. See Hong-Page Theorem

  domain of worlds evaluated, 6, 40–55, 66–71, 76–78, 89, 92, 99–100, 107, 113, 121–23, 129, 158, 174, 251–52, 255–58

  dreaming, 4, 11–16, 39, 41, 103, 140

  Dworkin, R., 191

  dystopias, 51

  Edison, T., 91

  eligible set, 211–15, 220ff; change of equilibrium in, 245; choice from, 225; coordinating on specific members of, 223ff; coordination on rules within, 229; disagreements in, 232–35; when equilibrium is outside of, 236; as locus of moral change, 230

  Ellison, S., 247

  Elster, J., 45, 60, 85–86, 134

  empirical expectations, 179–80, 183, 190, 197, 212, 218, 227, 230. See also expectations

  Engels, F., 19

  Enlightenment, 148, 154

  Enoch, D., 15

  environmentalism, 138, 164

  Eriksson, L., 60

  error inflation, 80, 102

  Estlund, D., xix, xx, 13–16, 18, 21, 27, 36, 38, 45, 68, 157, 164, 218, 230

  ethics of creation, 30–31

  evaluation normalized perspectives, 107ff, 122, 145

  evaluative perspectives, 43–47, 55, 61–3, 76, 142–55, 155, 210. See also perspectives

  evaluative standards/criteria, 24–25, 40, 43–49, 53–56, 63, 90–92, 99, 107–8, 114–16, 122, 126, 130–32, 145

  existence requirement, 183, 224

  expectations, 171, 182, 213, 229, 244; at heart of moral constitution, 181; importance of in normative behavior, 186; shared, 180; stability of required, 235. See also empirical expectations; normative expectations

  exploitation, 126, 160

  Farrelly, C., 15, 18

  feasibility, xvi, 10, 14, 18, 26, 29, 49, 56–62, 67, 75, 81, 106, 141; and hard constraints 32ff; and ideal justice, 30; internal, 51; senses of, 30; space of, 56ff

  Fehr, E., 181, 212

  Feinberg, J., 188

  feminism, 134, 138, 164

  Fischbacher, U., 181, 212

  Fleming, A., 197

  Forst, R., 191

  Foucault, M., 164

  foundationalism, 27

  Fourier, C., 90

  freedom, 109, 122, 125–26, 137, 143, 162, 187, 191. See also liberty; natural liberty

  Freeman, S., 153

  Friedman, D., 77

  Friedman, M., 38

  functionalism/functions, 92, 183ff, 197, 224

  Fundamental Diversity Dilemma, 130ff

  Fundamental Diversity Insight, 133ff,

  Galton, F., 261

  Gaus, K., xxi

  Gauthier, D., xv, 150–51, 168

  Gavrilets, S., 69

  General Conception of Justice, 24, 49, 50

  general will, 42

  Gilabert, P., 10, 26, 31, 49, 57, 60, 81

  Gintis, H., xv, 181

  Gjesdal, A., xxi

  Glasnost, 133

  global optimum (ideal), 6, 10, 50–51, 55, 65–67, 81–87, 102–3, 111–13, 117, 128, 131, 140

  Godwin, W., 32–3

  Goldwater, B., 137

  Goodin, R., 60

/>   Goodwin, B., 2, 4, 45, 60, 82, 85

  Gray, J., 201

  Guillot, J., xx

  guilt, 181

  Güth, W., 205

  Habermas, J., 19

  Hadfield, G., 207

  Haidt, J., 164, 169, 237–9

  Hamlin, A., xx, 1, 4–5, 30, 33, 37, 48–49, 59

  Hampson, S., 252

  Hampton, J., xv

  handing-off-the-baton dynamic, 111–16, 134–35

  Hankins, K., xx–xxi, 98, 259

  Hardin, R., xv

  harm, 163, 237

  Harman, G., 189

  Harsanyi, J., xv

  Haworth, A., 91–92

  Hayek, F. A., 137, 170–72, 187, 198, 221, 229, 250

  Hazelhurst, B., 131

  Henrich, J., 205

  high-dimensional landscapes, 67ff, 123. See also NK optimization; rugged landscapes

  Hillinger, C., 188

  Hobbes, T., xvi, 198

  Hobhouse, L.T., 138

  holism, 68, 72, 123, 199

  homophobia, 164

  Hong, L., 99, 106–7, 111–17, 119–20, 123, 126, 130, 133–35, 146

  Hong-Page theorem, 111ff, 116ff, 126, 134ff,

  Hutchins, E., 131

  ideal justice, 1, 4, 7, 13–20, 43, 56, 102; assumed to have practical value, 15; cannot be insulated from social realizations, 26; as a central evaluative concern, 26; elements of theory of, 44; feasibility of ideal social worlds, 30; identifies institutional structures, 4; mirage of, 246; must be sensitive to social realizations, 23, 40; must model social worlds, 29; normalized approach to, 150; not to be identified with perfect conformity to moral principles, 18ff; as optimal, 39; as useless, 17; revisability of, 87; why better understand it when one cannot impose it?, 218. See also global optimum; justice

  ideal theory; aims of 34ff; as dreaming set aside, 16; as guiding reform, 4; as institutional, 4; based on multidimensional analysis, 11; cannot specify necessary and sufficient conditions of, 241; classifications of, 1; concerned with recommendations, 16; employing possible world analysis, 2; importance of social realizations in 18ff; little use for categorical judgments, 46; must always admit revisablity, 134; necessity of drawing on social science because not pure moral philosophy, 17; orienting function, 4ff; and progressive thought, 2; as realistic, 2; two conditions for, 39ff; two fundamental tasks of, 5

  idealization, xvii, 1, 36ff, 102

  Ihäheimo, H., 177

  immigration, 169, 172, 175, 232, 245

  impartial spectators, 8, 155–59, 160, 162, 173

  indeterminacy, 151, 224–26

 

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