Add to ORKGPublic policies often involve choices of alternatives in which the size and the composition of the population may vary. Examples are the allocation of resources to prenatal care and the design of aid packages to developing countries. In order to assess the corresponding feasible choices on normative grounds, criteria for social evaluation that are capable of performing variable-population comparisons are required. We review several important axioms for welfarist population principles and discuss the link between individual well-being and the desirability of adding a new person to a given society.Polation Ethics, Neutrality, Critical Levels
This article is about the concept of optimum population and consumption. Even though it is primarily...
We explore in this paper the implications of ethical and operational principles for the evaluation o...
The evaluation of development processes and of public policies often involves comparisons of social ...
Public policies often involve choices of alternatives in which the size and the composition of the p...
This paper reviews the welfarist approach to population ethics. We provide an overview of the critic...
Demography is impregnated, more or less explicitly, with ethical contents. This is apparent in the w...
Intuition suggests there is no value in adding people to the population if it brings no benefits to ...
The overall purpose of this monograph is to integrate and critically evaluate the existing literatur...
This thesis consists of several independent papers in population ethics. I begin in Chapter 1 by cri...
grantor: University of TorontoThis thesis deals with population axiology, that is, the mor...
Intuition suggests there is no value in adding people to the population if it brings no benefits to ...
This thesis consists of six independent papers on personal identity, population ethics, and value th...
Intuition suggests there is no value in adding people to the population if it brings no benefits to ...
Given the deep disagreement surrounding population axiology, one should remain uncertain about which...
Demography is impregnated, more or less explicitly, with ethical contents. This is apparent in the w...
This article is about the concept of optimum population and consumption. Even though it is primarily...
We explore in this paper the implications of ethical and operational principles for the evaluation o...
The evaluation of development processes and of public policies often involves comparisons of social ...
Public policies often involve choices of alternatives in which the size and the composition of the p...
This paper reviews the welfarist approach to population ethics. We provide an overview of the critic...
Demography is impregnated, more or less explicitly, with ethical contents. This is apparent in the w...
Intuition suggests there is no value in adding people to the population if it brings no benefits to ...
The overall purpose of this monograph is to integrate and critically evaluate the existing literatur...
This thesis consists of several independent papers in population ethics. I begin in Chapter 1 by cri...
grantor: University of TorontoThis thesis deals with population axiology, that is, the mor...
Intuition suggests there is no value in adding people to the population if it brings no benefits to ...
This thesis consists of six independent papers on personal identity, population ethics, and value th...
Intuition suggests there is no value in adding people to the population if it brings no benefits to ...
Given the deep disagreement surrounding population axiology, one should remain uncertain about which...
Demography is impregnated, more or less explicitly, with ethical contents. This is apparent in the w...
This article is about the concept of optimum population and consumption. Even though it is primarily...
We explore in this paper the implications of ethical and operational principles for the evaluation o...
The evaluation of development processes and of public policies often involves comparisons of social ...