Abstract Epistemic states of uncertainty play important roles in ethical and political theorizing. Theories that appeal to a “veil ignorance,” for example, analyze fairness or impartiality terms certain ignorance. It is important, then, scrutinize proposed conceptions ignorance explore promising alternatives such contexts. Here, I study Lerner’s probabilistic egalitarian theorem the setting imp...

Review of Devin J. Vartija, The Color Equality: Race and Common Humanity in Enlightenment Thought, Philadelphia: University Pennsylvania Press, 2021, reviewed by Mrinmoyee Bhattacharya

We introduce equality up-to constraints over nite trees and investigate their expressiveness. Equality up-to constraints subsume equality constraints, subtree constraints, and one-step rewriting constraints. We establish a close correspondence between equality up-to constraints over nite trees and context uniication. Context uniication subsumes string uniication and is subsumed by linear second...

Abstract Moral equality—the idea that ‘we’ all have equal moral worth, our interests ought to count for the same, and we possess same bundle of basic rights—is one most central principles liberal thought, being regularly drawn on as a presupposition political inquiry. Perhaps because it is so often relied presupposition, however, equality more assumed than argued for. When for, common tactic ap...