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October 6, 2009

Meeting at NIH


Dana Nelkin, Ph.D.

University of California - San Diego


Moral Luck in Meeting Health Needs

  1. 1. Nelkin, D. Moral Luck. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-luck/

  2. 2. Nagel, T. Moral Luck. http://philosophy.ucsd.edu/faculty/rarneson/Courses/NAGELMoralLuck.pdf

  3. 3. Daniels, N. Health Needs, Normal Function, and Opportunity, pp. 42-58 in Just Health: Meeting Health Needs Fairly by N. Daniels. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008).

  4. 4. Daniels, N. Egalitarian (or Prioritarian) Opportunity for Welfare of Advantage, pp. 71-78 in Just Health: Meeting Health Needs Fairly by N. Daniels. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008).


October 20, 2009

Meeting at GWU


Michael Zimmerman, Ph.D.

University of North Carolina - Greensboro


Causation, Responsibility, and Blameworthiness


  1. 5. Zimmerman, MJ. Taking Luck Seriously. The Journal of Philosophy 2002; 99(11): 553-576.

  2. 6. Moore, M. Causation and Moral Blameworthiness, Ch. 2, pp. 20-33 in Causation and Responsibility: An Essay in Law, Morals, and Metaphysics by Michael Moore. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009).


November 10, 2009

Meeting at Georgetown


Michael Moore, J.D.

University of Illinois College of Law


The Moral Significance of Wrongdoing


  1. 7. Moore, M. The Independent Moral Significance of Wrongdoing, Ch. 5, pp. 191-246 in Placing Blame: A General Theory of the Criminal Law by Michael Moore. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997).

  2. 8. Moore, M. Causation and Moral Blameworthiness, Ch. 2, pp. 20-33 in Causation and Responsibility: An Essay in Law, Morals, and Metaphysics by Michael Moore. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009).



December 8, 2009

Meeting at NIH


Andrei Marmor, J.D., Ph.D.

University of Southern California

Gould School of Law


The Case Against Moral Luck


  1. 9. Enoch D., Marmor A. The Case Against Moral Luck. Law and Philosophy 2007; 26: 405-436.

  2. 10. Raz, J. Being in the World. In Press for publication in Ratio in 2010. http://josephnraz.googlepages.com/agency%2Cresponsibilityandluck NOT FOR DUPLICATION, DISTRIBUTION OR CITATION.

Current Session

Fall 2009 ::: Moral Luck