Justice is often defended as fair. That claim does a lot of work, most of it before anyone realises it’s working at all.
🎲 https://philosophics.blog/2025/12/24/the-felt-beneath-the-table/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
This essay looks at fairness and commensurability not as moral virtues, but as preconditions quietly installed so that retributive justice can function at all.
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Update. The book = 𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘰𝘹 𝘰𝘧 𝘚𝘦𝘭𝘧-𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵.
* HTML (#OpenAccess)
https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/10243418
* PDF (also OA)
https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/23674879
If you don't have time for a book, here's an essay-length summary (also OA).
https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/4727453
Why does this question deserve a book? I address that in the "Why Bother" section of the preface.
https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/10243467/Peter%20Suber%2c%20Paradox%20of%20Self-Amendment%2c%20First%20Preface%20FIXED.html?sequence=1&isAllowed=y#why
Yes, this book is related to #Nomic, my game of self-amendment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomic
#introduction 🧵 5/6
👨🏫 I’ve been #teaching #PoliticalTheory at the University of #Bamberg for a good 3 years now (phew!), having joined the team of @PolTheo after returning from a Master’s at #LSE. David Axelsen and Kai Möller got me hooked on analytic #PoliticalPhilosophy and #PhilosophyOfLaw over there. Still interested in issues at the crossroads of individual #ethics and theories of #justice.
This term, I’m teaching a graduate seminar on #CollectiveResponsibility.
Since there is a whole set of new people here a new #Introduction seems in order:
Hi, I am an Assistant Professor of #Philosophy at the University of Alberta, Canada. I was born and raised in Peru where I worked as a Human Rights lawyer. Now I am a full time academic philosopher.
I share stuff in Spanish/English, here are some of my interests
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