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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