Department of Philosophy - University of Missouri-Columbia

  Peter Vallentyne

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Peter Vallentyne

Florence G. Kline Professor
Director of Graduate Studies
Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh

VallentyneP@missouri.edu
406 Strickland Hall
573-882-2871
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Research areas
ethics, social and political philosophy, philosophy of law

Selected publications

  • Equality and Justice Series, 6 volumes, edited, Routledge 2003: Justice in General; The Demands of Equality; Distribution to Whom?; Distribution of What?; Social Contract and the Currency of Justice; Desert and Entitlemen.
  • "Equality, Brute Luck, and Initial Opportunities," Ethics 112 (2002): 529-557.
  • "Standard Decision Theory Corrected: Assessing Options When "Probability is Infinitely and Uniformly Spread," Synthese 122 (2000): 261-290.
  • "Intrinsic Properties Defined," Philosophical Studies 88 (1997): 209-219.
  • "Infinite Utility and Finitely Additive Value Theory," (with Shelly Kagan), Journal of Philosophy 94 (1997): 5-26.
  • "Self-Ownership and Equality: Brute Luck, Gifts, Universal "Domination, and Leximin," Ethics 107 (1997): 321-43.