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315A good life, or a life worth living, is a one that is "better than nothing". At least that is a common thought. But it is puzzling. What does "nothing" mean here? It cannot be a quantifier in the familiar sense, yet nor, it seems, can it be a referring term. To what could it refer? This paper aims to resolve the puzzle by examining a number of analyses of the concept of a life worth living. Temporal analyses, which exploit the temporal structure of lives, are distinguished from non-temporal ones…Read more
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381Still No Redundant Properties: Reply to WielenbergJournal of Ethics and Social Philosophy (3): 1-6. 2012.No abstract.
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74Prioritarianism for Variable PopulationsPhilosophical Studies 134 (3): 325-361. 2007.Philosophical discussions of prioritarianism, the view that we ought to give priority to those who are worse off, have hitherto been almost exclusively focused on cases involving a fixed population. The aim of this paper is to extend the discussion of prioritarianism to encompass also variable populations. I argue that prioritarianism, in its simplest formulation, is not tenable in this area. However, I also propose several revised formulations that, so I argue, show more promise.
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London School of EconomicsDepartment of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific MethodAssistant Professor
London, London, City of, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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