Choosing Justice: An Experimental Approach to Ethical TheoryThis book presents an entirely new answer to the question: “What is fair?” In their radical approach to ethics, Frohlich and Oppenheimer argue that much of the empirical methodology of the natural sciences should be applied to the ethical questions of fairness and justice. |
Contents
Understanding Distributive Justice | 1 |
Objectives Methods | 9 |
Research Problems | 25 |
Research Design | 33 |
Choices under Conditions | 53 |
Explaining Group Choices | 67 |
Group Choices of a Floor | 82 |
The Role of Experimental Factors | 95 |
Living with Impartial Decisions | 115 |
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