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Knowing and Valuing Fairness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2009

J. M. Hinton
J. M. Hinton
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Worcester College, Oxford
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Part I is about valuing fairness, II chiefly about not valuing it. Equally, I is about knowing fairness or taking yourself to know what it is, while II is chiefly about not knowing what it is: absolutely not knowing what it is, or not knowing what it is except when it is thought of in a narrow way. I want to know what all those states involve, e.g. whether knowing what fairness is involves valuing it, and most of all (in Part II) whether those two aforesaid ways of not knowing what fairness is involve some knowably undesirable kind of ignorance; in that sense, incur a cognitive penal sanction. But I begin elsewhere.

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Philosophy , Volume 65 , Issue 253 , July 1990 , pp. 271 - 296
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1990

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2 Some of the questions this raises are discussed towards the end.

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