A5076539552- Political Philosophy and Ethics
- Income, Poverty, and Inequality
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King's College London
2025
London School of Economics and Political Science
2024
University College London
2021-2022
The Repugnant Conclusion is an implication of some approaches to population ethics. It states, in Derek Parfit's original formulation, For any possible at least ten billion people, all with a very high quality life, there must be much larger imaginable whose existence, if other things are equal, would better, even though its members have lives that barely worth living. (Parfit 1984: 388)
Abstract Capitalism is defined as the economic structure in which decisions over production are largely made by or on behalf of individuals virtue their private property ownership, subject to incentives and constraints market competition. In this paper, I will argue that considerations long-term welfare, such those developed Greaves MacAskill (2021), support anticapitalism a weak sense (reducing extent economy capitalistic) perhaps stronger (establishing an alternative capitalism not...
Abstract This paper examines a recent argument in favour of strong precautionary action—possibly including working to hasten human extinction—on the basis decision-theoretic view that accommodates risk-attitudes all affected while giving more weight risk-averse attitudes. First, we dispute need take into account other people’s attitudes towards risk at all. Second, argue version non-identity problem undermines case for doing so context future people. Lastly, suggest should not work...
Abstract Some of the world's most powerful corporations practise what Shoshana Zuboff (2015; 2019) calls ‘surveillance capitalism’. The core their business is harvesting, analysing and selling data about people who use products. In Zuboff's view, first corporation to engage in surveillance capitalism was Google, followed by Facebook; recently, firms such as Microsoft Amazon have pivoted towards a model. this paper, I suggest that Karl Marx's analysis relations between industrial capitalists...
Abstract In his famous ‘Integrity Objection’, Bernard Williams condemns utilitarianism for requiring us to regard our projects as dispensable, and thus precluding from being properly committed them. this paper, I argue against commitment defines it, drawing upon insights the socialist tradition well mainstream analytic moral philosophy. show that given mutual interdependence of individuals (a phenomenon emphasised by socialists) several appealing non-utilitarian principles also require...
Abstract Utilitarianism is the view that as far morality goes, one ought to choose option which will result in most overall well-being—that is, maximises sum of whatever makes life worth living, with each person’s equally weighted. The promise utilitarianism reduce simple principle, easily incorporated into policy analysis, economics and decision theory. However, not popular amongst moral philosophers today. This large part due influence Williams’s ‘Integrity Objection’ (1973). Though...
Journal Article Social Anarchism and the Rejection of Moral Tyranny, by Jesse Spafford Get access Spafford. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. v + 242. Nikhil Venkatesh London School Economics Political Science, UK n.venkatesh2@lse.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6984-3001 Search for other works this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Mind, fzae014, https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/fzae014 Published: 01 April 2024
Abstract Act-consequentialism (C) is self-effacing for an agent iff that agent’s not accepting C would produce the best outcome. The question of whether important evaluating C. Some hold if be a mark against it (Williams 1973: 134); however, claim also used to defend certain objections (Parfit 1984: Ch. 1, Railton 1984). In this paper I will show one argument suggested by Parfit and fails establish individuals. However, slightly different may groups. This raises intriguing possibility might...
Abstract Many pressing problems are of the following kind: some collection actions multiple people will produce morally significant outcome (good or bad), but each individual action in seems to make no difference outcome. These pose theoretical (especially for act-consequentialism), and practical agents trying figure out what they ought do. Much recent literature on such has focused whether it is possible a tiny impact world that makes expected outcomes with which we’re concerned. I argue...
RC0: For any possible population of at least ten billion people, all with a very high quality life, there must be some much larger imaginable whose existence, if other things are equal, would better even though its members have lives that barely worth living.2 RC1: positive welfare, is low welfare existence better, equal. In this article, I argue by carefully considering the nature and variety distinguishing RC1 from related but stronger claim call RC2, we can show more acceptable than it...