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Caspar Hare

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Metaphysics
Normative Ethics
  •  463
    Voices from Another World: Must We Respect the Interests of People Who Do Not, and Will Never, Exist
    Ethics 117 (3): 498-523. 2007.
    This is about the rights and wrongs of bringing people into existence. In a nutshell: sometimes what matters is not what would have happened to you, but what would have happened to the person who would have been in your position, even if that person never actually exists.
    Social and Political Philosophy, Miscellaneous
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    Should We Wish Well to All?
    Philosophical Review 125 (4): 451-472. 2016.
    Some moral theories tell you, in some situations in which you are interacting with a group of people, to avoid acting in the way that is expectedly best for everybody. This essay argues that such theories are mistaken. Go ahead and do what is expectedly best for everybody. The argument is based on the thought that when interacting with an individual it is fine for you to act in the expected interests of the individual and that many interactions with individuals may compose an interaction with a …Read more
    Philosophy of Mind, Miscellaneous
  •  103
    Rationality and the distant needy
    Philosophy and Public Affairs 35 (2). 2007.
    This is my argument for the claim that morality is very demanding indeed. In a nutshell: being consistent is harder than you think.
    Distributive JusticeRationalityEthicsGlobal Justice
  •  5
    Introduction
    In On Myself, and Other, Less Important, Subjects, Princeton University Press. 2003.
  •  8
    Acknowledgments
    In On Myself, and Other, Less Important, Subjects, Princeton University Press. 2003.
  •  61
    The Limits of Kindness
    Oxford University Press. 2013.
    Caspar Hare presents a bold and original approach to questions of what we ought to do, and why we ought to do it. He breaks with tradition to argue that we can tackle difficult problems in normative ethics by starting with a principle that is humble and uncontroversial. Being moral involves wanting particular other people to be better off
    EthicsMoral Responsibility