This is a new interpretation and analysis of John Rawls's leading theory of distributive justice, which also considers the responding egalitarian theories of scholars such as Richard Arneson, G. A.

Journal of Social Philosophy, Vol. 55, Issue. 2, p. 167. This is a new interpretation and analysis of John Rawls's leading theory of distributive justice, which also considers the responding ...

"Luck egalitarianism"--the idea that justice requires correcting disadvantages resulting from brute luck--has gained ground in recent years and is now the main rival to John Rawls's theory of ...

Penz, “Sovereignty, Distributive Justice, and Federalism: A Cosmopolitan Perspective,” in Globalism and ... Mapel [Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992], 250–2. 7. John Rawls, A Theory of ...

In the decades since its introduction, the neutral theory of evolution has become central to the study of evolution at the molecular level, in part because it provides a way to make strong ...

Lorsch, Jay W. "A Contingency Theory of Leadership." Chap. 15 in Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice, edited by Nitin Nohria and Rakesh Khurana. Harvard Business Press, 2010.

The innate sense of fairness and justice that is observed among human subjects in many laboratory experiments on game theory may have such an origin. In football, when an offense faces a third ...

Theory of mind is typically defined as the ability to understand the thoughts, beliefs, desires, and emotions of other people. This understanding allows individuals to predict how others will feel ...

String theory is perhaps the most high-profile candidate for what physicists call a theory of everything – a single mathematical framework capable of describing the entirety of the known universe.

The COVID-19 pandemic served as a catalyst for conversations about justice systems, shedding light on some key areas in need of transformation. It particularly highlighted how emerging ...

Nonetheless, Mendel and Darwin's work laid the foundation for formulating a testable, research-based theory of heredity. Thus, Flemming recognized that chromosomal movement during mitosis offered ...

Learn about our editorial policies According to the quantity theory of money, the general price level of goods and services is proportional to the money supply in an economy. If the amount of ...