H Chung
Biographic Data
| ID | 35912 |
|---|---|
| NAME | H Chung |
| GIVEN NAMES | H |
| FAMILY NAME | Chung |
| SIGNATURE | CHUNG H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Waseda University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9320-4453 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Welfarism and continuity in ethical theory: A formal comparison of prospect utilitarianism vs. sufficientarianism
This paper offers a formal analysis of continuity, welfarism, value satiability, lifeboat cases, along with their interconnectedness with sufficientarianism, with particular attention to the recent defences of sufficientarianism by Ben Davies and Lasse Nielsen in response to Hun Chung’s Prospect Utilitarianism (PU). It demonstrates how precise formal definitions help resolve conceptual ambiguities and sharpen philosophical argumentation in distri…
How Nozick’s Rectification Principle Redefines the Minimal State
A Formal Theory of Robert Nozick's Framework for Utopia
This paper offers the very first formal model of Robert Nozick's model of possible worlds and his vision of a utopian society, as outlined in Part III of Anarchy, State, and Utopia . Nozick envisioned utopia as a meta‐utopia —a collection of self‐organized, voluntary sub‐communities—arguing that such an institutional framework is equivalent to the minimal state justified in earlier parts of his book. Nozick's strategy was to define utopia (the be…
(The Impossibility of) Deliberation‐Consistent Social Choice
There is now a growing consensus among democratic theorists that we should incorporate both “democratic deliberation” and “aggregative voting” into our democratic processes. But how should the two democratic mechanisms of deliberation and voting interact? In this article, we introduce a new axiom, which we call “Nonnegative Response toward Successful Deliberation” (NNRD). The basic idea is that if some individuals change their preferences toward …
Formal models in normative political theory
This article revisits the conventional distinction in political science between ‘positive’ and ‘normative’ political theory, particularly the belief that formal and mathematical methods are only pertinent to positive political theory. We argue that formal models are equally valuable in normative political theory for three reasons: they can make thought experiments more rigorous, they can demonstrate the consistency of normative principles, and th…
Prospect Utilitarianism and the Original Position
Suppose we assume that the parties in the original position took Kahneman and Tversky's prospect theory as constituting their general knowledge of human psychology that survives through the veil of ignorance. How would this change the choice situation of the original position? In this paper, I present what I call ‘prospect utilitarianism’. Prospect utilitarianism combines the utilitarian social welfare function with individual utility functions c…
When utilitarianism dominates justice as fairness: An economic defence of utilitarianism from the original position
The original position together with the veil of ignorance have served as one of the main methodological devices to justify principles of distributive justice. Most approaches to this topic have primarily focused on the single person decision-theoretic aspect of the original position. This paper, in contrast, will directly model the basic structure and the economic agents therein to project the economic consequences and social outcomes generated e…
Community Adaptations to Create “Inside and Outside” Cultural Spaces: The Case of Dukuh Traditional Village in Indonesia
Community adaptation is a way for a community or a community group to agree on its cultural space so that people's lives run harmoniously and prosperously. Adaptation is interrelated with how people respond to their environment, customs, and various external influences. This is also the case with the people of Dukuh Traditional Village, in Indonesia. This village is close to the forest. In addition, customs with religious rituals make the Dukuh T…
Locke’s state of nature and its epistemic deficit: A game-theoretic analysis
On Choosing the Difference Principle Behind the Veil of Ignorance: A Reply to Gustafsson
In a recently published paper entitled, “The Difference Principle Would Not Be Chosen behind the Veil of Ignorance”, Johan E. Gustafsson attempts to demonstrate that the parties in Rawls’s original position would not choose the difference principle. Gustafsson’s main strategy was to show that Rawls’s difference principle in both of its ex post and ex ante versions imply counterintuitive distributional prescriptions in a few contrived examples. Th…
Chain Connection, Close-Knitness, and the Difference Principle
When distributing the benefits produced by social cooperation, Rawls’s difference principle targets a specific group (i.e., the least advantaged group) and requires its expectations to be maximized. One natural worry is whether the practical application of the difference principle comes with a significant cost to other groups in society. Rawls was quite aware of this potential worry and gave his earnest efforts to respond to it. His solution come…
Rawls’s Self-Defeat: A Formal Analysis
One of John Rawls’s major aims, when he wrote A Theory of Justice , was to present a superior alternative to utilitarianism. Rawls’s worry was that utilitarianism may fail to protect the fundamental rights and liberties of persons in its attempt to maximize total social welfare. Rawls’s main argument against utilitarianism was that, for such reasons, the representative parties in the original position will not choose utilitarianism, but will rath…
Diversity and rights: A social choice-theoretic analysis of the possibility of public reason
The Well‐Ordered Society under Crisis: A Formal Analysis of Public Reason vs. Convergence Discourse
A well‐ordered society faces a crisis whenever a sufficient number of noncompliers enter into the political system. This has the potential to destabilize liberal democratic political order. This article provides a formal analysis of two competing solutions to the problem of political stability offered in the public reason liberalism literature—namely, using public reason or using convergence discourse to restore liberal democratic political order…
A Formal Theory of Democratic Deliberation
Inspired by impossibility theorems of social choice theory, many democratic theorists have argued that aggregative forms of democracy cannot lend full democratic justification for the collective decisions reached. Hence, democratic theorists have turned their attention to deliberative democracy, according to which "outcomes are democratically legitimate if and only if they could be the object of a free and reasoned agreement among equals" (Cohen …
The Impossibility of Liberal Rights in a Diverse World
A defining characteristic of a liberal democratic society is the assignment of basic rights and liberties that protect each person's private sphere. Hence, social choice made in a liberal democratic society must at the very least be consistent with the exercise of each person's basic rights. However, even when everybody agrees to this basic principle, there could still remain irreconcilable social conflict and disagreement when it comes to the sp…
Directional equilibria
We propose the solution concept of directional equilibrium for the multidimensional model of voting with general spatial preferences. This concept isolates alternatives that are stable with respect to forces applied by all voters in the directions of their gradients, and it extends a known concept from statistics for Euclidean preferences. We establish connections to the majority core, Pareto optimality, and existence and closed graph, and we pro…
Prospect utilitarianism: A better alternative to sufficientarianism
Childhood immunizations in China: Disparities in health care access in children born to North Korean refugees
BACKGROUND: Childhood immunization rates are at an all-time high globally, and national data for China suggests close to universal coverage. Refugees from North Korea and their children may have more limited health care access in China due to their legal status. However, there is no data on immunization rates or barriers to coverage in this population. METHODS: This study was conducted to determine the rates and correlates of immunizations in chi…
A Formal Theory of Democratic Deliberation
Inspired by impossibility theorems of social choice theory, many democratic theorists have argued that aggregative forms of democracy cannot lend full democratic justification for the collective decisions reached. Hence, democratic theorists have turned their attention to deliberative democracy, according to which "outcomes are democratically legitimate if and only if they could be the object of a free and reasoned agreement among equals" (Cohen …
The Well‐Ordered Society under Crisis: A Formal Analysis of Public Reason vs. Convergence Discourse
A well‐ordered society faces a crisis whenever a sufficient number of noncompliers enter into the political system. This has the potential to destabilize liberal democratic political order. This article provides a formal analysis of two competing solutions to the problem of political stability offered in the public reason liberalism literature—namely, using public reason or using convergence discourse to restore liberal democratic political order…
Diversity and rights: A social choice-theoretic analysis of the possibility of public reason
Formal models in normative political theory
This article revisits the conventional distinction in political science between ‘positive’ and ‘normative’ political theory, particularly the belief that formal and mathematical methods are only pertinent to positive political theory. We argue that formal models are equally valuable in normative political theory for three reasons: they can make thought experiments more rigorous, they can demonstrate the consistency of normative principles, and th…
Locke’s state of nature and its epistemic deficit: A game-theoretic analysis
Childhood immunizations in China: Disparities in health care access in children born to North Korean refugees
BACKGROUND: Childhood immunization rates are at an all-time high globally, and national data for China suggests close to universal coverage. Refugees from North Korea and their children may have more limited health care access in China due to their legal status. However, there is no data on immunization rates or barriers to coverage in this population. METHODS: This study was conducted to determine the rates and correlates of immunizations in chi…
Prospect utilitarianism: A better alternative to sufficientarianism
Directional equilibria
We propose the solution concept of directional equilibrium for the multidimensional model of voting with general spatial preferences. This concept isolates alternatives that are stable with respect to forces applied by all voters in the directions of their gradients, and it extends a known concept from statistics for Euclidean preferences. We establish connections to the majority core, Pareto optimality, and existence and closed graph, and we pro…
The Impossibility of Liberal Rights in a Diverse World
A defining characteristic of a liberal democratic society is the assignment of basic rights and liberties that protect each person's private sphere. Hence, social choice made in a liberal democratic society must at the very least be consistent with the exercise of each person's basic rights. However, even when everybody agrees to this basic principle, there could still remain irreconcilable social conflict and disagreement when it comes to the sp…
Rawls’s Self-Defeat: A Formal Analysis
One of John Rawls’s major aims, when he wrote A Theory of Justice , was to present a superior alternative to utilitarianism. Rawls’s worry was that utilitarianism may fail to protect the fundamental rights and liberties of persons in its attempt to maximize total social welfare. Rawls’s main argument against utilitarianism was that, for such reasons, the representative parties in the original position will not choose utilitarianism, but will rath…
Diversity and rights: A social choice-theoretic analysis of the possibility of public reason
The Well‐Ordered Society under Crisis: A Formal Analysis of Public Reason vs. Convergence Discourse
A well‐ordered society faces a crisis whenever a sufficient number of noncompliers enter into the political system. This has the potential to destabilize liberal democratic political order. This article provides a formal analysis of two competing solutions to the problem of political stability offered in the public reason liberalism literature—namely, using public reason or using convergence discourse to restore liberal democratic political order…
A Formal Theory of Democratic Deliberation
Inspired by impossibility theorems of social choice theory, many democratic theorists have argued that aggregative forms of democracy cannot lend full democratic justification for the collective decisions reached. Hence, democratic theorists have turned their attention to deliberative democracy, according to which "outcomes are democratically legitimate if and only if they could be the object of a free and reasoned agreement among equals" (Cohen …
On Choosing the Difference Principle Behind the Veil of Ignorance: A Reply to Gustafsson
In a recently published paper entitled, “The Difference Principle Would Not Be Chosen behind the Veil of Ignorance”, Johan E. Gustafsson attempts to demonstrate that the parties in Rawls’s original position would not choose the difference principle. Gustafsson’s main strategy was to show that Rawls’s difference principle in both of its ex post and ex ante versions imply counterintuitive distributional prescriptions in a few contrived examples. Th…
Chain Connection, Close-Knitness, and the Difference Principle
When distributing the benefits produced by social cooperation, Rawls’s difference principle targets a specific group (i.e., the least advantaged group) and requires its expectations to be maximized. One natural worry is whether the practical application of the difference principle comes with a significant cost to other groups in society. Rawls was quite aware of this potential worry and gave his earnest efforts to respond to it. His solution come…
Locke’s state of nature and its epistemic deficit: A game-theoretic analysis
Prospect Utilitarianism and the Original Position
Suppose we assume that the parties in the original position took Kahneman and Tversky's prospect theory as constituting their general knowledge of human psychology that survives through the veil of ignorance. How would this change the choice situation of the original position? In this paper, I present what I call ‘prospect utilitarianism’. Prospect utilitarianism combines the utilitarian social welfare function with individual utility functions c…
When utilitarianism dominates justice as fairness: An economic defence of utilitarianism from the original position
The original position together with the veil of ignorance have served as one of the main methodological devices to justify principles of distributive justice. Most approaches to this topic have primarily focused on the single person decision-theoretic aspect of the original position. This paper, in contrast, will directly model the basic structure and the economic agents therein to project the economic consequences and social outcomes generated e…
Community Adaptations to Create “Inside and Outside” Cultural Spaces: The Case of Dukuh Traditional Village in Indonesia
Community adaptation is a way for a community or a community group to agree on its cultural space so that people's lives run harmoniously and prosperously. Adaptation is interrelated with how people respond to their environment, customs, and various external influences. This is also the case with the people of Dukuh Traditional Village, in Indonesia. This village is close to the forest. In addition, customs with religious rituals make the Dukuh T…
(The Impossibility of) Deliberation‐Consistent Social Choice
There is now a growing consensus among democratic theorists that we should incorporate both “democratic deliberation” and “aggregative voting” into our democratic processes. But how should the two democratic mechanisms of deliberation and voting interact? In this article, we introduce a new axiom, which we call “Nonnegative Response toward Successful Deliberation” (NNRD). The basic idea is that if some individuals change their preferences toward …
Formal models in normative political theory
This article revisits the conventional distinction in political science between ‘positive’ and ‘normative’ political theory, particularly the belief that formal and mathematical methods are only pertinent to positive political theory. We argue that formal models are equally valuable in normative political theory for three reasons: they can make thought experiments more rigorous, they can demonstrate the consistency of normative principles, and th…
Welfarism and continuity in ethical theory: A formal comparison of prospect utilitarianism vs. sufficientarianism
This paper offers a formal analysis of continuity, welfarism, value satiability, lifeboat cases, along with their interconnectedness with sufficientarianism, with particular attention to the recent defences of sufficientarianism by Ben Davies and Lasse Nielsen in response to Hun Chung’s Prospect Utilitarianism (PU). It demonstrates how precise formal definitions help resolve conceptual ambiguities and sharpen philosophical argumentation in distri…
How Nozick’s Rectification Principle Redefines the Minimal State
A Formal Theory of Robert Nozick's Framework for Utopia
This paper offers the very first formal model of Robert Nozick's model of possible worlds and his vision of a utopian society, as outlined in Part III of Anarchy, State, and Utopia . Nozick envisioned utopia as a meta‐utopia —a collection of self‐organized, voluntary sub‐communities—arguing that such an institutional framework is equivalent to the minimal state justified in earlier parts of his book. Nozick's strategy was to define utopia (the be…
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