Just Deserts
Joseph de la Torre Dwyer
Researcher
My research interests include distributive justice; the principles of responsibility, desert, and control; and reproducible research with R.
Posts
Life Expectancy: A New Wrinkle for Equal Opportunity Policy
Are differences in life expectancy something we ought to account for in equal opportunity policies? Although this is not often …
Publications
A Fundamental Failure of Frankfurt’s Agentic Counterfactual Intervention: No Agency
Frankfurt’s “Alternate Possibilities and Moral Responsibility” (1969) made an important intervention into the literature on moral …
Chance, Merit, and Economic Inequality
This book develops a novel approach to distributive justice by building a theory based on a concept of desert. As a work of applied …
