Broome and the Intuition of Neutrality
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Summary, in English
In “Weighing Lives” (2004) John Broome criticizes a view common to many population axiologists. This is the view that population increases with extra people leading decent lives are axiologically neutral: they make the world neither better nor worse, ceteris paribus. Broome argues that this intuition, however, attractive, cannot be sustained, for several independent reasons. I respond to his criticisms and suggest that the neutrality intuition, if correctly interpreted, can after all be defended.
Avdelning/ar
Publiceringsår
2009
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
389-411
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Philosophical Issues
Volym
11
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Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
John Wiley & Sons Inc.
Ämne
- Philosophy
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1533-6077