Add to ORKGIntuition suggests there is no value in adding people to the population if it brings no benefits to people already living: creating people is morally neutral in itself. This paper examines the difficulties of incorporating this intuition into a coherent theory of the value of population. It takes three existing theories within welfare economics--average utilitarianism, relativist utilitarianism, and critical-level utilitarianism--and considers whether they can satisfactorily accommodate the intuition that creating people is neutral. Copyright 1996 by Royal Economic Society.
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Intuition suggests there is no value in adding people to the population if it brings no benefits to ...
Intuition suggests there is no value in adding people to the population if it brings no benefits to ...
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Public policies often involve choices of alternatives in which the size and the composition of the p...
Utilitarianism is the view according to which the only basic requirement of morality is to maximize ...
My thesis demonstrates that, despite a number of impossibility results, a satisfactory and coherent ...
Intuition suggests there is no value in adding people to the population if it brings no benefits to ...
Intuition suggests there is no value in adding people to the population if it brings no benefits to ...
grantor: University of TorontoThis thesis deals with population axiology, that is, the mor...
It is notoriously difficult to find an intuitively satisfactory rule for evaluating populations base...
Ethical theory faces a group of difficult puzzles concerning populations. Here is one: would it be r...
Many people seem to share some version of what has been called the “intuition of neutrality” aboutcr...
This article is about the concept of optimum population and consumption. Even though it is primarily...
How should we as a society value changes in population size? The question may be crucial w...
This thesis consists of six independent papers on personal identity, population ethics, and value th...
For the last thirty years or so, there has been a search underway for a theory that canaccommodate o...
A cost-benefit analysis of an event must take account of the event's effect on population. Cost-bene...
This thesis consists of several independent papers in population ethics. I begin in Chapter 1 by cri...
Public policies often involve choices of alternatives in which the size and the composition of the p...
Utilitarianism is the view according to which the only basic requirement of morality is to maximize ...
My thesis demonstrates that, despite a number of impossibility results, a satisfactory and coherent ...