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Utilitarianism without Moral Aggregation
Canadian Journal of Philosophy (2021), 51: 4, 256–269 Is an outcome where many people are saved and one person dies better than an outcome where the one is saved and the many die? According to the stan
Bentham's Mugging
Utilitas, 2022, 1–6 Abstract A dialogue, in three parts, on utilitarian vulnerability to exploitation. Read the whole article
Parfit and the economists: A contribution to the debate on the optimal population size
Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale, 102, 23-37 Abstract This paper presents Derek Parfit’s contribution to the debate on the optimal population size, as it has been developed by economists. Parfit’s des
Matthew Adler: Prioritarianism and climate change
Matthew Adler, Richard A. Horvitz Professor of Law and Professor of Economics, Philosophy and Public Policy ABSTRACTPrioritarianism is the equitable counterpart to utilitarianism. Rather than merely ad
Egalitarian Concerns and Population Change
in Ole Frithjof Norheim (ed.) Measurement and Ethical Evaluation of Health Inequalities, Oxford: Oxford University Press. DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199931392.003.0007 We usually examine our considered
An Egalitarian Argument Against Reducing Deprivation
Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Volume 20, Issue 5, pp 957–968, doi.org/10.1007/s10677-017-9842-x. Abstract Deprivations normally give rise to undeserved inequality. It is commonly thought that one
The Repugnant Conclusion: An Overview
In Stephen M. Gardiner (red), The Oxford Handbook of Intergenerational Justice, Oxford Academic. Abstract The repugnant conclusion can be formulated as follows: For any population consisting of people wi
Bashir Bashir: Egalitarian Binationalism for Israel/Palestine.
Venue: Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13 in Stockholm Research seminar with Bashir Bashir, associate professor of political theory at the Open University of Israel and a senior research
The Case for Emissions Egalitarianism
Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, vol. 22, no 2., doi.org/10.1007/s10677-019-10016-8 Abstract There is a fixed limit on the greenhouse gas emissions that the atmosphere can absorb before triggering dang
Studies on climate ethics and future generations vol. 4
Working papers 2021:11-23 Joe Roussos & Paul Bowman (eds.) Democratic Representation of Future Generations and Population EthicsGustaf Arrhenius Global Justice and Future Generations: The Case of Sov