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"Wilfried Hinsch"
Titel: Ideal Justice and Rational Dissent. A Critique of Amartya Sen’s The Idea of Justice
Autor: Wilfried Hinsch
Seite: 371-386
Abstract: In The Idea of Justice Amartya Sen criticises ’transcendental institutionalism’ for entertaining notions of ’ideal justice’ that are neither necessary nor sufficient for the advancement of justice in the real world. Sen argues in favor of a ’realization-focused’ and ’comparative’ understanding of justice that he associates with the names of Adam Smith, Marx, and J. S. Mill. Conceptions of ideal justice, Sen believes, are useless since in practice we do not need them to advance justice. And they are ’infeasible’ because all conceptions of ideal justice can be reasonably rejected for one reason or other. I shall address both complaints in turn and maintain that Sen’s rigid contraposition of ideal and comparative justice is overstated. It will also be discussed how the institutional focus of ’transcendental institutionalism’ links up with the need for an ideal conception of justice. Finally, some implications of rational dissent about justice and two common strategies to deal with it will be discussed.
Titel: Comment on Wilfried Hinsch: Ideal Justice and Rational Dissent: A Critique of Amartya Sen’s The Idea of Justice
Autor: Mathias Thaler
Seite: 387-393
Titel: Framing Computational Fairness and Non-Discrimination
Autor: Wilfried Hinsch
Seite: 27-48
This article outlines a new framework of computational fairness for the analysis of data-driven statistical discrimination. It begins by identifying the limitations of the still dominant paradigm of fairness through unawareness. Building on this critique, the article proposes an approach that distinguishes concerns of procedural fairness from questions of distributive justice when evaluating poten tially discriminatory procedures. In contrast to a widespread view, it argues that procedural computational fairness rests on a single formal criterion. A computational procedure is non-discriminatory, it is claimed, if it achieves equal predictive values across demographic groups. In addition, two non-procedural requirements of distributive justice are advanced for selective procedures: the proportionality of individual burdens and their compatibility with a just overall social distribution of benefits and burdens.
The Relevance of Ideal Justice
2011 (33) Heft 2
Guest-Editors: Lukas Meyer / Pranay Sanklecha
Editorial
Whether and how normative theorising can be relevant for guiding people’s actions is one of the classical questions of moral and political philosophy. Platon’s dialogues Politeia, Politikos and Nomoi provide fascinating discussions on the topic. Recently normative theorists have investigated some aspects of these questions under the title of ideal and non-ideal theorising—relying on a distinction that Rawls introduced in A Theory of Justice (1971) and made use of in his The Law of Peo...
Focus: Responsibility and Artificial Intelligence
2026 (48) Heft 1
Editorial
As is evident everywhere, research into artificial intelligence has advanced by leaps and bounds in recent years, leading to a rapid increase in its use across almost all areas of life. As early as 2018, the German government of the time set out a ‘Master Plan for Artificial Intelligence’ in its coalition agreement, and the current government plans, as announced in a recently published strategy paper, to quadruple Germany’s AI capacity by 2030. Artificial intelligence is regarded as a key ...