Abstract
A wide range of important debates across such areas as epistemology, philosophy of action, ethics, political philosophy, and philosophy of law center on luck-involving claims (that is, claims that involve the concept of luck itself, or some other luck-related concept) such as the following: If you know that P, then it’s not lucky that you believe accurately that P. If it was lucky that you acted as you did, then you did not freely so act. If you and I behave in the same way but through sheer bad luck my conduct has worse results than yours, then I am no more blameworthy than you are for so behaving. We should redistribute resources so as to enhance the prospects of those who, through sheer bad luck, are among our worst off. We can properly punish successful criminal attempts more severely than ones that fail only by luck.
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