Eric Rakowski
Biographic Data
| ID | 1208441 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eric Rakowski |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eric |
| FAMILY NAME | Rakowski |
| SIGNATURE | RAKOWSKI E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Trolley Problem Mysteries
Suppose you can stop a trolley from killing five people, but only by turning it onto a side track where it will kill one person. May you turn the trolley? What if the only way to rescue the five is to topple a bystander in front of the trolley so that his body stops it but he dies? May you use a device to stop the trolley that will kill a bystander as a side effect? The Trolley Problem challenges us to explain and justify our intuitive judgments …
Trolley Problem Mysteries
The Trolley Problem Mysteries' considers whether who turns the trolley and/or how it is turned (or otherwise stopped) affect the moral permissibility of acting and suggests general proposals for when we may and may not harm some people to help others
The future reach of the disembodied will
Many US states now allow people to create private trusts that continue indefinitely. Is it unjust to permit settlors to benefit their descendants without temporal limitation? Although perpetual trusts might seem self-indulgent impositions on posterity, no leading theory of distributive justice appears to bar their creation. The societal benefits from increased work effort and savings by potential settlors probably outweigh any societal drawbacks …
Ronald Dworkin, Reverence for Life, and the Limits of State Power
Ronald Dworkin claims in Life's Dominion that our tradition of religious toleration shields decisions to abort a pregnancy and to end one's life with the assistance of others because they pivot on judgements about the value of human life that are essentially spiritual. He further maintains that the state may regulate these decisions to ensure that they honour appropriately life's sacred or intrinsic value. This article disputes the first of Dwork…
Equal Justice
The Aggregation Problem
Suppose that you had to choose between two medical programs. You could provide flu vaccine to a million people, thereby sparing a quarter of them the virus and adding fifteen years to the lives of four people who would otherwise have developed fatal complications. Or you could offer coronary bypass surgery to twenty others, lengthening their lives by an average of five active years and brightening the days they would have had anyway. Which progra…
What is Just
Equal Justice
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Equal Justice. By Eric Rakowski. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991. Pp. xii + 385. Price £40.00 h/b, £13.95 p/b.) Peter Vallentyne Peter Vallentyne Virginia Commonwealth University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 44, Issue 174, January 1994, Pages 129–132, https://doi.org/10.2307/2220161 Published: 01 January 1994
Taking and Saving Lives
The so-called "trolley problem"--the problem of explaining why it is morally permissible to turn the trolley toward the single worker even though it is ordinarily impermissible to kill one person to save five others, as in the organ transplant case-has generated a voluminous literature.See generally Judith Jarvis Thomson, The Trolley Problem, 94 Yale LJ. 1395, 1409 (1985) (advocating saving the greater number when the means do not violate the vic…
Taking and Saving Lives
The so-called "trolley problem"--the problem of explaining why it is morally permissible to turn the trolley toward the single worker even though it is ordinarily impermissible to kill one person to save five others, as in the organ transplant case-has generated a voluminous literature.See generally Judith Jarvis Thomson, The Trolley Problem, 94 Yale LJ. 1395, 1409 (1985) (advocating saving the greater number when the means do not violate the vic…
The Aggregation Problem
Suppose that you had to choose between two medical programs. You could provide flu vaccine to a million people, thereby sparing a quarter of them the virus and adding fifteen years to the lives of four people who would otherwise have developed fatal complications. Or you could offer coronary bypass surgery to twenty others, lengthening their lives by an average of five active years and brightening the days they would have had anyway. Which progra…
What is Just
Equal Justice
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Equal Justice. By Eric Rakowski. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991. Pp. xii + 385. Price £40.00 h/b, £13.95 p/b.) Peter Vallentyne Peter Vallentyne Virginia Commonwealth University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 44, Issue 174, January 1994, Pages 129–132, https://doi.org/10.2307/2220161 Published: 01 January 1994
Equal Justice
Ronald Dworkin, Reverence for Life, and the Limits of State Power
Ronald Dworkin claims in Life's Dominion that our tradition of religious toleration shields decisions to abort a pregnancy and to end one's life with the assistance of others because they pivot on judgements about the value of human life that are essentially spiritual. He further maintains that the state may regulate these decisions to ensure that they honour appropriately life's sacred or intrinsic value. This article disputes the first of Dwork…
The future reach of the disembodied will
Many US states now allow people to create private trusts that continue indefinitely. Is it unjust to permit settlors to benefit their descendants without temporal limitation? Although perpetual trusts might seem self-indulgent impositions on posterity, no leading theory of distributive justice appears to bar their creation. The societal benefits from increased work effort and savings by potential settlors probably outweigh any societal drawbacks …
The Trolley Problem Mysteries
Suppose you can stop a trolley from killing five people, but only by turning it onto a side track where it will kill one person. May you turn the trolley? What if the only way to rescue the five is to topple a bystander in front of the trolley so that his body stops it but he dies? May you use a device to stop the trolley that will kill a bystander as a side effect? The Trolley Problem challenges us to explain and justify our intuitive judgments …
Trolley Problem Mysteries
The Trolley Problem Mysteries' considers whether who turns the trolley and/or how it is turned (or otherwise stopped) affect the moral permissibility of acting and suggests general proposals for when we may and may not harm some people to help others
Political science (5 works) · Economic Justice (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political Philosophy and Ethics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (2 works) · Business (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works)