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1 online resource : illustrations |
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Cover -- Ethics and Existence: The Legacy of Derek Parfit -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Chapter Abstracts -- Ralf Bader: 'The Asymmetry' -- M.A. Roberts: 'The Value and Probabilities of Existence' -- Hilary Greaves and John Cusbert: 'Comparing Existence and Non-Existence' -- Patrick Tomlin: 'The Impure Non-Identity Problem' -- Elizabeth Harman: 'Abortion and the Non-identity Problem' -- 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' |
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Larry Temkin: 'Population Ethics Forty Years On: Some Lessons Learned from "Box Ethics"' -- Jacob M. Nebel: 'Totalism without Repugnance' -- Johann Frick: 'Context-Dependent Betterness and the Mere Addition Paradox' -- Niko Kolodny: 'Saving Posterity from a Worse Fate' -- Andreas L. Mogensen: 'Against Large Number Scepticism' -- William MacAskill: 'Are We Living at the Hinge of History?' -- S.J. Beard and Patrick Kaczmarek: 'On Theory X and What Matters Most' -- Ruth Chang: 'How to Avoid the Repugnant Conclusion' |
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Wlodek Rabinowicz: 'Can Parfit's Appeal to Incommensurabilities in Value Block the Continuum Argument for the Repugnant Conclusion?' -- Gustaf Arrhenius: 'Population Ethics and Conflict-of-Value Imprecision' -- Teruji Thomas: 'On Evaluative Imprecision' -- Theron Pummer: 'Sorites on What Matters' -- Michael Otsuka: 'Prioritarianism, Population Ethics, and Competing Claims' -- Shlomi Segall: 'Quarantining Prioritarianism' -- PART I: CAUSING PEOPLE TO EXISTAND THE NON-IDENTITY PROBLEM -- 1: The Asymmetry -- 1.1 The Basic Account -- 1.1.1 The First Half -- 1.1.2 The Second Half |
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1.2 Extending the Account -- 1.2.1 Lives that Are Initially Worth Living -- 1.2.1.1 Coarse-Grained Options -- 1.2.1.2 Fine-Grained Asymmetry -- 1.2.2 Externalities -- 1.2.3 Adding Groups -- 1.2.4 Probabilistic Cases -- 1.2.4.1 Time-Slice Aggregation -- 1.2.4.2 Initial-Segment Aggregation -- 1.2.4.3 Different-Number Cases -- 1.2.5 Absolute Harm -- 1.3 Conclusion -- References -- 2: The Value and Probabilities of Existence -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Notes on Figures, Assumptions, Vocabulary -- 2.3 Commitments -- 2.3.1 The Miserable Child Case: Why PBI Must Be VeryNarrowly Formulated |
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2.3.2 The Three Outcome Case -- 2.3.3 Objection: Why PBI Must Be Understood as Expansive -- 2.4 Formal Statement of PBI -- 2.5 The Better Chance Puzzle -- 2.6 The Better Chance Case versus the Nonidentity Problem -- 2.7 Solving the Better Chance Puzzle -- 2.7.1 Two Proposed Solutions Based on the Concept of Expected Value -- 2.7.1.1 Unadulterated Expected Value Approach -- 2.7.1.2 Combination Approach: EVNPBI+EV -- 2.7.2 Probable Value Approach -- 2.7.3 Summing Up the Solution -- Implications for Connection -- 2.8 Avoiding the Nonidentity Fallacy -- 2.9 Conclusion -- References |
| Summary |
Derek Parfit, who died in 2017, is widely believed to have been the best moral philosopher in well over a century. The twenty new essays in this book were written in his honour and have all been inspired by his work - in particular, his work in an area of moral philosophy known as 'population ethics', which is concerned with moral issues raised by causing people to exist. Until Parfit began writing about these issues in the 1970s, there was almost no discussion of them in the entire history of philosophy. But his monumental book 'Reasons and Persons' (1984) revealed that population ethics abounds in deep and intractable problems and paradoxes that not only challenge all the major moral theories but also threaten to undermine many important common-sense moral beliefs |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from home page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed November 18, 2022) |
| Subject |
Parfit, Derek -- Influence
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| SUBJECT |
Parfit, Derek fast |
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Ethics.
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Population -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Ethics
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ethics (philosophy)
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Ethics
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Population -- Moral and ethical aspects
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| Genre/Form |
Festschriften
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Festschriften.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
McMahan, Jeff, editor.
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Campbell, Tim (Timothy), editor.
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Goodrich, James (James Patrick), editor.
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Ramakrishnan, Ketan, editor.
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Parfit, Derek, honouree.
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| ISBN |
9780191915314 |
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0191915319 |
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9780192646668 |
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0192646664 |
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9780192646651 |
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0192646656 |
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