Spheres of justice : a defense of pluralism and equality

By M. Walzer. 1985

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Fairness in Machine Learning: Lessons from Political Philosophy (2017, background): “…debate concerns whether we should apply a single egalitarian calculus across diﬀerent social contexts, or whether there are internal ‘spheres of justice’ in which diﬀerent in-commensurable logics of fairness might apply, and between which redistributions might not be appropriate Walzer (2008).”
Awards as Compensation (2007, unknown): “Examples are Bourdieu (1979), Goodin (1980), Elster (1983), Braudy (1986), Walzer (1983) or Baurmann (2002).”
When in context (2008, unknown): “A contemporary theorist of ethics, Walzer (1983), proposes several analyses of our moral sentiments following the same line as Smith’s analysis.”
Social rights and economics: claims to health care and education in developing countries (2003, unknown): “As Walzer (1993) points out, centuries ago in Europe access to a spiritual advisor was considered indispensable for every soul, whether a noble or a serf, whereas access to health care and education was not a pre-requisite for meaningful participation in society.”
Financialisation of Valuation (2015, background): “The criticisms of monetisation and economization are bound up with the fear of seeing these forms of quantification come to dominate others, imposing their forms of valuation, and building up a world that could be described as one-dimensional (Marcuse 1964) in which certain dominant orders of worth ”
The Equity and Legitimacy of Markets for Ecosystem Services (2007, background): “…is a matter of distribution according to universal principles, some scholars emphasize that what is equitable or not is specific to particular communities and that principles for distribution are tentative and likely to vary across communities, issues and contexts (for example, Walzer, 1983).”
What We Argue about When We Argue about Regionalism (2001, background): “Political philosopher Walzer (1983) calls this the “art of separation.””
Understanding Privacy Online: Development of a Social Contract Approach to Privacy (2016, background): “4 A social contract approach has previously been applied to delineate norms across geographical boundaries (Donaldson and Dunfee 1995), distribute goods (Walzer 1983), assign property rights (Coase 1960), or develop a system of right and wrong (Dennett 1995, 2003).”
On the apparent conflict between individual and group fairness (2019, background): “to be distributed according to some egalitarian principle [2, 13, 20, 42, 45, 51].”
What makes clinical research in developing countries ethical? The benchmarks of ethical research. (2004, background): “Even in wealthy countries, participants are not entitled to every available or effective medical service, because justice necessitates establishing priorities [41, 42].”