What's Luck Got to do with the Luck Pincer?

What's Luck Got to Do with It: Single Cells, Multiple Fates, and Biological Nondeterminism.

The field of single-cell biology has morphed from a philosophical digression at its inception, to a playground for quantitative biologists, to a major area of biomedical research. The last several years have witnessed an explosion of new technologies, allowing us to apply even more of the modern molecular biology toolkit to single cells. Conceptual progress, however, has been comparatively slow...

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...