The Oxford Handbook of Population Ethics (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Arrhenius, Gustaf; Finneron-Burns, Elizabeth; Campbell, Tim; Bykvist, Krister

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Oxford Handbook of Population Ethics presents up-to-date theoretical analyses of various problems associated with the moral standing of future people and animals in current decision-making. Future people pose an especially hard problem for our current decision-making, since their number and their identities are not fixed but depend on the choices the present generation makes. Do we make the world better by creating more people with good lives? What do we owe future generations in terms of justice? How should burdens and benefits be shared across generations so that justice prevails? These questions are philosophically difficult and important, but also directly relevant to many practical decisions and policies. Climate change policy provides an example, as the increasing global temperature will kill some people and prevent many others from ever existing. Many other policies also influence the size and make-up of future populations both directly and indirectly, for example those concerning family planning, child support, and prioritization in health-care. If we are to adequately assess these policies, we must be able to determine the value of differently sized populations. The essays in this handbook shed light on the value of population change and the nature of our obligations to future generations. It brings together world-leading philosophers to introduce readers to some of the paradoxes of population ethics, challenge some fundamental assumptions that may be taken for granted in the debate about the value of population change, and apply these problems and assumptions to real-world decisions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 600
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780190907709
• Artikelnr.: 63648103

Autorenporträt

Gustaf Arrhenius is the Director of the Institute for Futures Studies, Stockholm, and Professor of Practical Philosophy at Stockholm University. Krister Bykvist is a Professor of Practical Philosophy at Stockholm University and a Research Fellow at the Institute for Future Studies, Stockholm. Tim Campbell is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Futures Studies, Stockholm. Elizabeth Finneron-Burns is Assistant Professor of Political Theory at the University of Western Ontario and an Affiliated Researcher at the Institute for Future Studies in Stockholm.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* Gustaf Arrhenius, Krister Bykvist, Tim Campbell, Elizabeth
Finneron-Burns
* Part I: Ways Out of the Paradoxes
* 1. Ruth Chang - How Not to Avoid the Repugnant Conclusion
* 2. Nils Holtug - Prioritarianism and Population Ethics
* 3. Walter Bossert - Anonymous Welfarism, Critical-level Principles,
* and the Repugnant and Sadistic Conclusions
* 4. Geir Asheim and Stéphane Zuber - Rank-Discounting as a Resolution
to a Dilemma of Population Ethics
* 5. Wlodek Rabinowicz - Getting Personal: The Intuition of Neutrality
Re-Interpreted
* 6. John Broome - Loosening the Betterness Ordering of Lives: a
Response to Rabinowicz
* Part II: Philosophical and Methodological Assumptions
* 7. Larry S. Temkin - Population Ethics: Lessons Learned, Some
Implications, and Problems Remaining
* 8. Gustaf Arrhenius - Population Paradoxes Without Transitivity
* 9. Erik Carlson - On Some Impossibility Theorems in Population Ethics
* 10. Melinda A. Roberts - The Non-Identity Problem, the Better Chance
Puzzle, and the Value of Existence
* 11. Ralf M. Bader - Person-Affecting Utilitarianism
* 12. Teru Thomas - Separability and Population Ethics
* 13. Krister Bykvist - Evaluative Uncertainty and Population Ethics
* 14. Matthew Adler - Claims Across Outcomes and Population Ethics
* 15. Dean Spears and Marc Budolfson - Does the Repugnant Conclusion
Have Important Implications for Axiology or for Public Policy?
* 16. Johan Gustafsson - Our Intuitive Grasp of the Repugnant
Conclusion
* Part III: Applications
* 17. John Broome - Climate Change and Population Ethics
* 18. Serena Olsaretti - Egalitarian Justice and Population Size
* 19. Sarah Conly - Overpopulation and Individual Responsibility
* 20. Hilary Greaves - Optimum Population Size
* 21. Martin Kolk - Demographic Theory and Population Ethics
* 22. Partha Dasgupta and Aisha Dasgupta - Population Overshoot
* 23. Jeff McMahan - Having Children and Saving Lives
* 24. Axel Gosseries and Tim Meijers - Animal Population Ethics
* 25. Elizabeth Harman - Gamete Donation as a Laudable Moral Mistake
* 26. Julia Mosquera - Disability and Population Ethics