Ethics reading group
Reading: Alex Voorhoeve and Marc Fleurbaey, "Priority or Equality for Possible People?," Ethics 126, no. 4 (July 2016): 929-954.
Abstract: Suppose that you must make choices that may influence the well-being and the identities of the people who will exist, though not the number of people who will exist. How ought you to choose? This article answers this question. It argues that the currency of distributive ethics in such cases is a combination of an individual’s final well-being and her expected well-being conditional on her existence. It also argues that this currency should be distributed in an egalitarian, rather than a prioritarian, manner.
PhilPapers: Priority or Equality for Possible People?
Contact
This group is organised by the ethics research group. For more information or to find out about future readings (and venues!), please contact Rick Sendelbeck or Claire Hamlett.
Ethics reading group
Room F29/30, Psychology Building, 7 George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9JZ