Ethics and Existence: The Legacy of Derek Parfit

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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. Cover Title Copyright Contents List of Figures Contributors Introduction Part I 1.The Asymmetry.pdf 2.The Value and Probabilities of Existence.pdf 3.Comparing Existence and Non-Existence.pdf 4.The Impure Non-Identity Problem.pdf 5.Abortion and the Non-Identity Problem.pdf 6.A Partial Solution to the Non-Identity Problem.pdf PART II 7.Population Ethics Forty Years On.pdf 8.Totalism without Repugnance.pdf 9.Context-Dependent Betterness and the Mere Addition Paradox.pdf 10.Saving Posterity from a Worse Fate.pdf 11.Against Large Number Scepticism.pdf 12.Are We Living at the Hinge of History.pdf 13.On Theory X and What Matters Most.pdf PART III 14.How to Avoid the Repugnant Conclusion.pdf 15.Can Parfit’s Appeal to Incommensurabilities in Value Block the Continuum Argument for the Repugnant Conclusion.pdf 16.Population Ethics and Conflict-of-Value Imprecision.pdf 17.On Evaluative Imprecision.pdf 18.Sorites on What Matters.pdf Part IV 19.Prioritarianism, Population Ethics, and Competing Claims.pdf 20.Quarantined Prioritarianism.pdf Index.pdf