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20Rawls’s Structural Response to ArbitrarinessPhilosophy and Theology 30 (1): 123-148. 2018.John Rawls, father of contemporary distributive justice, professed the metaphysical neutrality of his theory, and formulated an additional theory to support such neutrality generally. This article exposes Rawls’s own theological underpinnings concerning his conception of the moral arbitrariness of existence, and his structural dichotomous approach for engaging it. I show how both of his theories are reminiscent of Calvin, employing methods of bifurcation, and thus generating tensions within both…Read more
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29A Theory of Providence for Distributive JusticeJournal of Religious Ethics 46 (1): 124-155. 2018.Distributive justice assumes a morally critical judgment of nature, which typically contradicts providential conceptions. Hence, simple conceptions of divine Providence cannot support distributive justice. This essay analyzes and develops a complex strand of theorizing about Providence within Jewish philosophy that is compatible with distributive justice. According to this conception, the actions of divine Providence express different and mutually exclusive considerations of justice. Therefore, …Read more
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28Luck egalitarianism as providenceInternational Journal of Philosophy and Theology 78 (3): 301-325. 2017.Luck egalitarianism is an approach within current distributive justice theory which aims to focus redistributive efforts solely upon disadvantages that ensue from bad luck. This article considers how central assumptions and themes of both luck egalitarianism and its critics parallel those of providence theology and share some of their concerns. These relate to problems such as the basis of equality, the extent and nature of our knowledge, and of course, the paternalism that assessing people’s re…Read more
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16Rabbinic subjectivityCommon Knowledge 23 (1): 120-142. 2017.This article argues that the religious epistemology of the rabbinic tradition, which preserves and respects multiple perspectives in intellectual debate, is best understood in comparison to the definitions of truth proposed by philosophical pragmatists, in particular William James and W. V. Quine, and in contrast to those of philosophical liberals, in particular J. S. Mill. Both the rabbis and the pragmatists emphasize the harmony that innovation must maintain with extant webs of meaning. Concep…Read more
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Tel Aviv UniversityThe Cohn Institute For History And Philosophy of Science And IdeasPost-doctoral Fellow
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Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
Areas of Specialization
Metaphysics and Epistemology |
Value Theory |
History of Western Philosophy |
Philosophical Traditions |
Arts and Humanities |