Justice as Fairness: A Restatement

By J. Rawls, Erin I. Kelly. 2001

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Artificial Intelligence, Values, and Alignment (2020, background): “Their agreement therefore takes the form of an ‘overlapping consensus’ between different perspectives (Rawls, 2001, 32).”
Fairness through awareness (2011, methodology): “Following established tradition [Raw01], the metric is assumed to be public and open to discussion and continual reﬁnement.”
Fairness Without Demographics in Repeated Loss Minimization (2018, background): “In this work, we do not address the debate on the correctness of Rawlsian justice (Rawls, 2001), and leave finding a suitable philosophical framework for loss minimization to future work.”
Individual Fairness in Hindsight (2018, background): “d. The similarity metric expresses ground truth. When ground truth is unavailable, the metric may reﬂect the “best” available approximation as agreed upon by society. Following established tradition (Rawls 2001) the metric is assumed to be public and open to discussion and continual reﬁnement. Indee”
Future accessibility impacts of transport policy scenarios: Equity and sensitivity to travel time thresholds for Bus Rapid Transit expansion in Rio de Janeiro (2019, unknown): “…or academics about what makes a transport investment equitable, an egali-tarian-prioritarian view of justice like the one developed by John Rawls (1999, 2001) is increasingly in ﬂ uential among academics (Lucas et al., 2015; Martens, 2012; Pereira, Schwanen, et al., 2017a; van Wee &…”
Distributive justice and equity in transportation (2016, background): “Rawls’ theory of justice is essentially concerned with the role played by institutions in promoting justice (Rawls, 1999, 2001).”
This Thing Called Fairness (2019, background): “ive of a citizen at large: risk assessments should function properly for every member of society (or at least for a wide swath) to preserve overall norms of justice and to protect the social contract [124, 125]. While fairness overlaps substantially with justice in this application context, this obs”
Social rights and economics: claims to health care and education in developing countries (2003, unknown): “The rights to health care and education, then, can be seen as elements in the "social bases of self-respect," which Rawls (1971, 2001) defines as perhaps the most important of his "primary goods."”
A capability perspective on impairment, disability and special needs (2005, background): “Aspects of this debate have also addressed the causal factors of disability, whether natural or social, mainly in connection with interpersonal comparisons of disadvantage and a concern for social justice (Dworkin, 2000; Nagel, 2002; Rawls, 1971, 2001; Sen, 1992).”
Impartial Predictive Modeling: Ensuring Fairness in Arbitrary Models (2016, unknown): “This is more in line with Rawl’s conception of equality of opportunity (Rawls, 2001), but this line of inquiry is beyond the scope of this paper.”
Distributional effects of transport policies on inequalities in access to opportunities in Rio de Janeiro (2019, background): “Another core idea in Rawls’ theory of justice is the absolute priority and inviolability of one’s basic rights and liberties such as the physical and psychological liberty and integrity of the person (Rawls, 2001, p. 44).”