Uncertainty, equality, fraternity

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 imprecise probabilities. assumes social planner tasked with distributing income individuals population “completely ignorant” about which utility functions belong individuals. Lerner models this uniform probability distribution, shows that, under further assumptions, should be equally distributed. Much criticism relevance result centers on representation involved. Imprecise probabilities provide general framework reasoning various forms including, particular, To what extent can conclusion maintained setting?