Simon Knutsson (@shknutsson) profile picture

PhD student in philosophy.

Göteborg, Sverige
Joined July 2010
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My new essay "Answers in population ethics were published long ago" is now available as a draft at simonknutsson.com/answers-in… and centerforreducingsuffering.o…. This thread contains a shortened but still long summary.
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it is definitely not a feature a theory must have to be satisfactory. It is rather the opposite: a theory or view should not favour such tradeoffs. At least in part because of disagreements like that, all of Arrhenius’ impossibility theorems are non-issues for views like mine.
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The theorems do not show that the project of finding a satisfactory view in population ethics has gloomy prospects.
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