Luck Hard

Hard luck stories: the reality of endothelial progenitor cells continues to fall short of the promise.

The discovery of putative endothelial progenitor cells by Asahara and colleagues1 engendered a new era of vascular biology, full of the promise of using circulating and bone marrow–derived progenitors for therapeutic angiogenesis. In this landmark article, Asahara et al demonstrated that a CD34 or Flk-1 positive fraction of mononuclear cells isolated from human peripheral blood formed endotheli...

Moral Luck

The good will is not good because of what it effects or accomplishes or because of its adequacy to achieve some proposed end; it is good only because of its willing, i.e., it is good of itself And, regarded for itself, it is to be esteemed incomparably higher than anything which could be brought about by it in favor of any inclination or even of the sum total of all inclinations. Even if it sho...

Beginner’s Luck

Farewell and Good Luck

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Expecting Bad Luck

This paper draws on Card’s discussions of moral luck to consider the complicated moral life of people—described as pessimists—who accept the heavy knowledge of the predictability of the bad moral luck of oppression. The potential threat to ethics posed by this knowledge can be overcome by the pessimist whose resistance to oppression, even in the absence of hope, expresses a sense of still havin...