Volume 31, Number 2
March 2026
DISCUSSION

Reparations, Relational Equality, and Causation

Volume 31, Number 2, March 2026, Pages 304–314
https://doi.org/10.26556/jesp.v31i2.4437
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Abstract

In a recent article, Alexander Motchoulski offers a novel relational egalitarian view of reparations for historical injustice. Motchoulski argues that we ought to prefer the relational egalitarian view to available harm and inheritance theories because it avoids epistemic uncertainty. I argue that Motchoulski’s theory involves ambiguity that limits it in avoiding this epistemic uncertainty. I offer an amendment to Motchoulski’s theory that insulates it from this ambiguity and epistemic uncertainty.
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