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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Jesper Ryberg; Torbjörn Tännsjö |
| ISBN: | 140202472X 9781402024726 |
| OCLC Number: | 55671871 |
| Description: | 260 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction / Jesper Ryberg and Torbjorn Tannsjo -- Overpopulation and the quality of life / Derek Parfit -- Two Parfit puzzles / Tim Mulgan -- Critical-level population principles and the repugnant conclusion / Charles Blackorby, Walter Bossert and David Donaldson -- O repugnance, where is thy sting? / Clark Wolf -- Resolving the repugnant conclusion / Tyler Cowen -- Person-based consequentialism and the procreation obligation / Melinda A. Roberts -- Person-affecting moralities / Nils Holtug -- Repugnance or intransitivity : a repugnant but forced choice / Stuart Rachels -- The root of the repugnant conclusion and its rebuttal / Ingmar Persson -- The paradoxes of future generations and normative theory / Gustaf Arrhenius |
| Series Title: | Library of ethics and applied philosophy, v. 15. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Jesper Ryberg and Torbjörn Tännsjö. |
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Abstract:
"Most people (including moral philosophers), when faced with the fact that some of their cherished moral views lead up to the Repugnant Conclusion, feel that they have to revise their moral outlook. However, it is a moot question as to how this should be done. It is not an easy thing to say how one should avoid the Repugnant Conclusion, without having to face even more serious implications from one's basic moral outlook. Several such attempts are presented in this volume. This is the first volume devoted entirely to the cardinal problem of modern population ethics, known as 'the Repugnant Conclusion'. This book is a must for (moral) philosophers with an interest in population ethics."--BOOK JACKET.
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