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No Justification for Lottery Losers
Author(s) -
Kelp Christoph
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
pacific philosophical quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.914
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1468-0114
pISSN - 0279-0750
DOI - 10.1111/papq.12025
Subject(s) - lottery , argument (complex analysis) , epistemology , positive economics , philosophy , law and economics , sociology , economics , microeconomics , biochemistry , chemistry
I gor D ouven has recently developed a challenge for accounts of justification according to which beliefs about lottery losers are never justified. This article argues that champions of such accounts can rise to D ouven's challenge and, what's more, that they can turn D ouven's argument around in the sense that they can legitimately take it to provide a vindication of their preferred view.