Ethics and Existence is a collective exploration of a set of topics to do with persons and value that were pioneered by the late Derek Parfit. A distinguished international team of contributors discuss ethical questions relating to population, the value of life, and the future.
Ethics and Existence is a collective exploration of a set of topics to do with persons and value that were pioneered by the late Derek Parfit. A distinguished international team of contributors discuss ethical questions relating to population, the value of life, and the future.
Jeff McMahan is White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Oxford. He is the author of The Ethics of Killing: Problems at the Margins of Life (OUP, 2002) and Killing in War (OUP, 2009). Tim Campbell is a researcher at the Institute for Future Studies at the University of Stockholm. James Goodrich is a PhD student in philosophy at Rutgers and Stockholm University, working on moral and political philosophy. Ketan Ramakrishnan is a JD candidate at Yale Law School and a DPhil candidate in philosophy at the University of Oxford.
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* Introduction * I. CAUSING PEOPLE TO EXIST AND THE NON-IDENTITY PROBLEM * 1: Ralf Bader: The Asymmetry * 2: M. A. Roberts: The Value and Probabilities of Existence * 3: Hilary Greaves and John Cusbert: Comparing Existence and Non-existence * 4: Patrick Tomlin: The Impure Non-Identity Problem * 5: Elizabeth Harman: Abortion and the Non-Identity Problem * 6: Andrew McGee and Julian Savulescu: A Partial Solution to the Non-Identity Problem: Regretting One was Born and Having a Life not Subjectively Worth Living * II. THE REPUGNANT CONCLUSION, FUTURE GENERATIONS, AND EXTINCTION * 7: Larry Temkin: Population Ethics Forty Years On: Some Lessons Learned from Box Ethics * 8: Jacob Nebel: Totalism without Repugnance * 9: Johann Frick: Context-dependent Betterness and the Mere Addition Paradox * 10: Niko Kolodny: Saving Posterity from a Worse Fate * 11: Andreas L. Mogensen: Against Large Number Scepticism * 12: William MacAskill: Are We Living at the Hinge of History? * 13: S.J. Beard and Patrick Kaczmarek: On Theory X and What Matters Most * III. EVALUATIVE IMPRECISION, INCOMMENSURABILITY, AND VAGUENESS IN VALUE * 14: Ruth Chang: How to Avoid the Repugnant Conclusion * 15: Wlodek Rabinowicz: Can Parfit's Appeal to Incommensurabilities Block the Continuum Argument for the Repugnant Conclusion? * 16: Gustaf Arrhenius: Population Ethics and Conflict of Value Imprecision * 17: Teruji Thomas: Evaluative Imprecision, Scales of Value, and Vague Preference * 18: Theron Pummer: Sorites on What Matters * IV. PRIORITARIANISM IN POPULATION ETHICS * 19: Michael Otsuka: Prioritarianism, Population Ethics, and Competing Claims * 20: Shlomi Segall: Quarantining Prioritarianism
* Introduction * I. CAUSING PEOPLE TO EXIST AND THE NON-IDENTITY PROBLEM * 1: Ralf Bader: The Asymmetry * 2: M. A. Roberts: The Value and Probabilities of Existence * 3: Hilary Greaves and John Cusbert: Comparing Existence and Non-existence * 4: Patrick Tomlin: The Impure Non-Identity Problem * 5: Elizabeth Harman: Abortion and the Non-Identity Problem * 6: Andrew McGee and Julian Savulescu: A Partial Solution to the Non-Identity Problem: Regretting One was Born and Having a Life not Subjectively Worth Living * II. THE REPUGNANT CONCLUSION, FUTURE GENERATIONS, AND EXTINCTION * 7: Larry Temkin: Population Ethics Forty Years On: Some Lessons Learned from Box Ethics * 8: Jacob Nebel: Totalism without Repugnance * 9: Johann Frick: Context-dependent Betterness and the Mere Addition Paradox * 10: Niko Kolodny: Saving Posterity from a Worse Fate * 11: Andreas L. Mogensen: Against Large Number Scepticism * 12: William MacAskill: Are We Living at the Hinge of History? * 13: S.J. Beard and Patrick Kaczmarek: On Theory X and What Matters Most * III. EVALUATIVE IMPRECISION, INCOMMENSURABILITY, AND VAGUENESS IN VALUE * 14: Ruth Chang: How to Avoid the Repugnant Conclusion * 15: Wlodek Rabinowicz: Can Parfit's Appeal to Incommensurabilities Block the Continuum Argument for the Repugnant Conclusion? * 16: Gustaf Arrhenius: Population Ethics and Conflict of Value Imprecision * 17: Teruji Thomas: Evaluative Imprecision, Scales of Value, and Vague Preference * 18: Theron Pummer: Sorites on What Matters * IV. PRIORITARIANISM IN POPULATION ETHICS * 19: Michael Otsuka: Prioritarianism, Population Ethics, and Competing Claims * 20: Shlomi Segall: Quarantining Prioritarianism
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