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Title:

Repugnancy, Marginalism, Transitivity, and Population Ethics

Creator:

Wiśniewski, Jakub Bożydar

Subject and Keywords:

Repugnant Conclusion   population ethics   axiom of transitivity   diminishing marginal utility

Description:

Od 2013 pt.: Ekonomia - Wroclaw Economic Review

Abstract:

This paper attempts to build upon the “marginalist” solutions to various puzzles in the area of population ethics, including the so-called Repugnant Conclusion (seen as a major obstacle to the viability of the Total Utility Principle), the Ecstatic Psychopath Scenario (seen as a major obstacle to the viability of the Average Utility Principle) and the Negative Repugnant Conclusion. After rejecting the suggestion that the above puzzles should be resolved by abandoning the axiom of transitivity, I argue that the solution lies in the principle of diminishing marginal utility, whose effects apply not only to every individual added to any given population, but, even more importantly, also to the already existing members of that population

Place of publishing:

Wrocław

Publisher:

Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego

Date issued:

2015

Date copyrighted:

2015

Detailed Type:

czasopisma online

Identifier:

oai:repozytorium.uni.wroc.pl:94421   ISSN 2084-4093

Language:

eng

Relation:

Acta Universitatis Wratislaviensis, ISSN 0239-6661 ; no 3712. Ekonomia, ISSN 2084-4093 ; 21/3, s. 21-37

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Is version of:

Czasopisma Naukowe w Sieci

Rights holder:

Copyright by Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego Sp. z o.o.

Location of original object:

Biblioteka Wydziału Prawa, Administracji i Ekonomii

Autor opisu:

WR U/PAdjm