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- Benatar and Beyond: Rethinking the Consequences of Asymmetry
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Authors: Draper; Kaila
Pages: 245 - 259
Abstract: David Benatar's asymmetry argument in defense of anti-natalism is unconvincing, but not, as most of his critics would have it, because the alleged asymmetry on which it is based does not exist. Rather, the problem is that the existence of that asymmetry does not warrant the conclusion that it is better never to have been. This paper explains Benatar's mistake and identifies the correct conclusions to draw from the axiological asymmetry he identifies. It also sheds light on certain puzzles in population ethics.
PubDate: 2023-08-04
DOI: 10.1017/S0953820823000146
- Well-being and the Problem of Unstable Desires
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Authors: Mariqueo-Russell; Atus
Pages: 260 - 276
Abstract: This paper considers a new problem for desire theories of well-being. The problem claims that these theories are implausible because they misvalue the effects of fleeting desires, long-standing desires, and fluctuations in desire strength on well-being. I begin by investigating a version of the desire theory of well-being, simple concurrentism, that fails to capture intuitions in these cases. I then argue that desire theories of well-being that are suitably stability-adjusted can avoid this problem. These theories claim that the average strength of a desire, and the length of time that it is held, both influence the extent to which its fulfilment or frustration affects well-being. I end by considering whether value-fulfilment theories of well-being have a more attractive response to this problem. I find that these theories have significant downsides that make them unappealing alternatives.
PubDate: 2023-08-07
DOI: 10.1017/S0953820823000171
- Trivially Satisfied Desires: A Problem for Desire-Satisfaction Theories of
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Authors: Hemmerich; Luca
Pages: 277 - 291
Abstract: In this article, I argue that desire-satisfaction theories of well-being face the problem of trivially satisfied desires. First, I motivate the claim that desire-satisfaction theories need an aggregation principle and reconstruct four possible principles desire-satisfactionists can adopt. Second, I contend that one of these principles seems implausible on numerous counts. Third, I argue that the other three principles, which hold that the creation and satisfaction of new desires is good for individuals and can be called proliferationist, are vulnerable to an objection from trivially satisfied desires. They implausibly imply that forming desires that are trivially satisfied is good for individuals. Finally, I argue that trivially satisfied desires may also worsen desire-satisfactionism's classical problem of pointless desires. Together, these claims constitute a challenge to desire-satisfactionism.
PubDate: 2023-08-09
DOI: 10.1017/S0953820823000183
- In Defence of Pigou–Dalton for Chances
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Authors: Stefánsson; H. Orri
Pages: 292 - 311
Abstract: I defend a weak version of the Pigou–Dalton principle for chances. The principle says that it is better to increase the survival chance of a person who is more likely to die rather than a person who is less likely to die, assuming that the two people do not differ in any other morally relevant respect. The principle justifies plausible moral judgements that standard ex post views, such as prioritarianism and rank-dependent egalitarianism, cannot accommodate. However, the principle can be justified by the same reasoning that has recently been used to defend the core axiom of ex post prioritarianism and egalitarianism, namely, Pigou–Dalton for well-being. The arguably biggest challenge for proponents of Pigou–Dalton for chances is that it violates state dominance for social prospects. However, I argue that we have independent reason for rejecting state dominance for social prospects, since it prevents a social planner from properly respecting people's preferences.
PubDate: 2023-08-22
DOI: 10.1017/S095382082300016X
- Principle, Pragmatism, and Piecework in On Liberty
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Authors: Miller; Dale E.
Pages: 312 - 319
Abstract: In a well-known passage in chapter V of On Liberty, J. S. Mill notes that while economic competition is generally socially beneficial and should be permitted, this “Free Trade” doctrine does not follow from the liberty or harm principle because “trade is a social act.” In a largely overlooked passage in chapter IV of the same essay, however, Mill contends that for society to coercively prohibit the practice of piecework – paying workers by the unit rather than by the hour or day – does violate this principle. In this short note, I demonstrate that Mill's reasoning in these two passages is contradictory.
PubDate: 2023-07-27
DOI: 10.1017/S0953820823000158
- Egyptians, Aliens, and Okies: Against the Sum of Averages
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Authors: Tarsney; Christian, Geruso, Michael, Spears, Dean
Pages: 320 - 326
Abstract: Grill (2023) defends the sum of averages view (SAV), on which the value of a population is found by summing the average welfare of each generation or birth cohort. A major advantage of SAV, according to Grill, is that it escapes the Egyptology objection to average utilitarianism. But, we argue, SAV escapes only the most literal understanding of this objection, since it still allows the value of adding a life to depend on facts about other, intuitively irrelevant lives. Moreover, SAV has a decisive drawback not shared with either average or total utilitarianism: it can evaluate an outcome in which every individual is worse off as better overall, even when exactly the same people exist in both outcomes. These problems, we argue, afflict not only Grill's view but any view that uses a sum of subpopulation averages, apart from the limiting cases of average and total utilitarianism.
PubDate: 2023-09-29
DOI: 10.1017/S0953820823000225
- James E. Crimmins, Utilitarianism in the Early American Republic (New
York: Routledge, 2022), pp. 280.-
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Authors: Riley; Chris
Pages: 327 - 329
PubDate: 2023-07-24
DOI: 10.1017/S0953820823000122
- Catia Faria, Animal Ethics in the Wild: Wild Animal Suffering and
Intervention in Nature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023), pp.
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Authors: Milburn; Josh
Pages: 329 - 332
PubDate: 2023-08-09
DOI: 10.1017/S0953820823000201
- William MacAskill, What We Owe The Future: A Million-Year View (One World
Publications, London, 2022), pp. 246.-
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Authors: Plant; Michael
Pages: 333 - 338
PubDate: 2023-08-14
DOI: 10.1017/S0953820823000109
- Michael Pelczar, Phenomenalism: A Metaphysics of Chance and Experience
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023), pp. xiii + 210.-
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Authors: Riley; Jonathan
Pages: 338 - 346
PubDate: 2023-08-17
DOI: 10.1017/S0953820823000195
- John Peter DiIulio, Completely Free: The Moral and Political Vision of
John Stuart Mill (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022), pp. xiii +
305.-
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Authors: Van Schoelandt; Chad
Pages: 346 - 348
PubDate: 2023-09-11
DOI: 10.1017/S0953820823000213
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