Eliminating or Calibrating the Role of Chance? Acute Resource Scarcity as a Challenge for Luck Egalitarianism

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1 The underlying distinction between “brute luck” and “option luck” is attributed to Ronald Dworkin. The term “luck egalitarianism” is credited to Elizabeth Anderson, a critic of this school. See Vallentyne (2002, 533, 540).

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The author has received funding from the Government of Cananda (New Frontiers in Research Fund) to study how ex vivo organ perfusion technology might be ethically employed. He is also a co-investigator on grants from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Canadian Donation and Transplant Research Program, and the London Health Sciences Centre Multi-Organ Transplant Program to study approaches to organ retrieval and transplant candidate prioritization.