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How should the fair distribution of some goods depend on other-regarding preferences?
I am a welfare economist, working in the realm of fairness economics, and I would like your opinion on some distributive dilemma for some of my work. Suppose the following situation:
A country is ...
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Which philosophers talk about social power structures?
Can anyone recommend philosophers that are concerned with what structures power relationships in society, particularly in workplaces?
I know that Foucault's work was concerned with this in ...
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Should uncontacted peoples have a right to privacy?
I've been reading some of the wikis about the uncontacted peoples of the world and the often repeated attempts to establish contact with a a number of them even after being rebuffed (sometimes ...
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What is the intrinsic difference between freedom of speech and freedom of deeds?
What are philosophical reasons for approving of freedom of speech but not of freedom of deeds? If teasing the others by speech is allowed, why not by deeds? If freedom of deeds is wrong, then why ...
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Why should almost extinct animals be protected from going extinct?
The feeling that it's "sad" if a species dies out seems to be coming from an aesthetic point of view how the world should be. But is there a rationality behind it?
The only rational reason I was ...
