The Idea of Justice

By Otto Bird. 1967

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Re-imagining Algorithmic Fairness in India and Beyond (2021, background): “Rawl’s distributive justice [166] (also see Sen’s critique of Rawl’s idea of original position and inadequacies of impartiality-driven justice and fairness [186]).”
Power to the People? Opportunities and Challenges for Participatory AI (2022, background): “This has the potential to make a sustained positive impact to the welfare and benefit of communities over time [29, 78].”
Confronting Abusive Language Online: A Survey from the Ethical and Human Rights Perspective (2020, background): “As Sen (2009) points out, justice needs to be thought as degrees of fairness to all participants.”
Reimagining the purpose of VET – Expanding the capability to aspire in South African Further Education and Training students (2012, background): “Leßmann (forthcoming), distinguishing between the ‘opportunity aspect of freedom’ and the ‘process aspect of freedom’ (Sen, 2009), argues that social policy tends to focus on enhancing the ‘opportunity aspect of freedom’ and tends to neglect the ability to choose or ‘enhancing the capability to choo”
Income and Beyond: Multidimensional Poverty in Six Latin American Countries (2013, unknown): “Moreover, Sen argues that the list of capabilities (defined as the set of functionings) to be included in such evaluative exercises should be developed through participatory processes and public reasoning (Sen, 2009).”
Positive Psychology, Happiness, and Virtue: The Troublesome Conceptual Issues (2010, background): “The objective-list theory of Sen (2009) and Nussbaum (2003) is probably the best known of those accounts.”
The Capability Approach: Insights for a New Poverty Focus (2011, background): “For example, the additional costs associated with disability might mean that a disabled person requires a greater amount of resources to achieve the same standard of living as an able-bodied person (Sen, 2009).”
Happiness is not Well-Being (2012, background): “However, Sen analyzes individual advantage in terms of a person’s capability to do things and not in terms of their actual achievements (Sen 2009).5 By contrast, degree of agential flourishing depends both on one’s actual value-achievements and on one’s dispositions to achieve one’s values.”
Weights in Multidimensional Indices of Wellbeing: An Overview (2013, unknown): “Such an agreement might be hard to reach and not even necessary (Sen, 2009).”
Measuring active and healthy ageing in Europe (2017, background): “…is inspired by Sen’s capabilityfocused conceptual framework, in which capabilities are defined as substantive opportunities and empowerments to enhance wellbeing and quality of life, such as life expectancy, health, education and social participation (see, for example, Sen, 1985, 1993, 2009).”
Distinctions and distinctiveness in the work of prison officers: Legitimacy and authority revisited (2011, background): “Amartya Sen (2009) argues that, instead of devising perfectionist models of justice, we should be seeking to clarify how different realizations of justice might be compared and evaluated, exploring how far away from, or close to, justice particular practices, institutions and individual lives are…”
Changes Over Time in Multidimensional Poverty: Methodology and Results for 34 Countries (2017, background): “4) and seeks to advance the work of Amartya Sen (1979, 1992, 1997, 1999, 2009), who has persuasively argued for more comprehensive conceptualizations and measures of capability poverty.”
The Concept of Subjective Well-being in Housing Research (2017, unknown): “Like other value-pluralist thinkers (e.g. Isiah Berlin and John Gray) he argues that well-being is an important but partial reflection of human functioning (e.g. Sen, 2011).”
Human Development and Sustainability (2010, background): “…and Sen (2000) with their praise for Robert Solow’s seminal contributions to WS read like an embracing of the substitutability assumption of WS, while other parts of Anand and Sen (2000) and some of Sen’s other writings (for example, Sen 1982; 2009, pp. 248–252) read very much like a defence of SS.”
A method to evaluate equitable accessibility: combining ethical theories and accessibility-based approaches (2016, background): “Egalitarian theories Egalitarians believe that society should treat all people equally (Sen 1992; 2009).”
Distributive justice and equity in transportation (2016, background): “As Rawls and Sen themselves recognise, there is more to justice than fair distributions, which cannot be judged in isolation from the process of which they are an outcome (Rawls, 1999; Sen, 1999, 2005, 2009).”