Ethics and Existence: The Legacy of Derek Parfit 1st Edition

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• ISBN-10: 0192646664
• ISBN-13: 9780192646668
• Author: Jeff McMahan, Tim Campbell, James Goodrich, Ketan Ramakrishnan

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.

Table contents:

I. CAUSING PEOPLE TO EXIST AND THE NON-IDENTITY PROBLEM
1:The Asymmetry
2:The Value and Probabilities of Existence
3:Comparing Existence and Non-existence
4:The Impure Non-Identity Problem
5:Abortion and the Non-Identity Problem
6: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:Population Ethics Forty Years On: Some Lessons Learned from Box Ethics
8:Totalism without Repugnance
9:Context-dependent Betterness and the Mere Addition Paradox
10:Saving Posterity from a Worse Fate
11:Against Large Number Scepticism
12:Are We Living at the Hinge of History?
13:On Theory X and What Matters Most
III. EVALUATIVE IMPRECISION, INCOMMENSURABILITY, AND VAGUENESS IN VALUE
14:How to Avoid the Repugnant Conclusion
15:Can Parfit’s Appeal to Incommensurabilities Block the Continuum Argument for the Repugnant Conclusion?
16:Population Ethics and Conflict of Value Imprecision
17:Evaluative Imprecision, Scales of Value, and Vague Preference
18:Sorites on What Matters
IV. PRIORITARIANISM IN POPULATION ETHICS
19:Prioritarianism, Population Ethics, and Competing Claims
20:Quarantining Prioritarianism

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