Kagan, Shelly. The Geometry of Desert

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Skow, Bradford
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Other things being equal, people ought to get what they deserve. If there is such a thing as common sense, this claim is part of it. But life is complicated, and this claim does not get us very far. Suppose I could give A what he deserves or give B what she deserves, but not both; what should I do? For Shelly Kagan this question lies on the known edge of a huge expanse of unexplored philosophical terrain. The Geometry of Desert is Kagan’s report on what he found there.
Date issued
2014-01
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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/115387
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
Journal
Ethics
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University of Chicago Press
Citation
Skow, Bradford. “Kagan, Shelly. The Geometry of Desert.Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. Xviii+656. $74.00 (cloth).” Ethics 124, no. 2 (January 2014): 417–426.
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0014-1704
1539-297X
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