Abstract:Distributive Justice and Evolution. Towards a Science of Equality.The paper offers reasons why distributive justice scholars should be interested in evolutionary science: it can help us understand, for example, the genetic and subsistence factors infl uencing our judgements about fair distributions, where may our sense of property come from, why freedom matters to certain creatures, and why we have fraternal and egalitarian sentiments and unequal societies.Keywords: debunking explanations, freedom, equality, f… Show more
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