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64Is Extinction Risk Mitigation Uniquely Cost-Effective? Not in Standard Population ModelsIn Jacob Barrett, Hilary Greaves & David Thorstad (eds.), Essays on Longtermism, Oxford University Press. forthcoming.What socially beneficial causes should philanthropists prioritize if they give equal ethical weight to the welfare of current and future generations? Many have argued that, because human extinction would result in a permanent loss of all future generations, extinction risk mitigation should be the top priority given this impartial stance. Using standard models of population dynamics, we challenge this conclusion. We first introduce a theoretical framework for quantifying undiscounted cost-effect…Read more
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438Must Prioritarians Be Antiegalitarian?Economics and Philosophy 1-15. forthcoming.It has been argued that Prioritarianism violates Risky Non-Antiegalitarianism, a condition stating roughly that an alternative is socially better than another if it both makes everyone better off in expectation and leads to more equality. I show that Risky Non-Antiegalitarianism is in fact compatible with Prioritarianism as ordinarily defined, but that it violates some other conditions that may be attractive to prioritarians. While I argue that the latter conditions are not core principles of Pr…Read more
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29Two impossibility results for social choice under individual indifference intransitivitySocial Choice and Welfare 61. 2023.Due to the imperfect ability of individuals to discriminate between sufficiently similar alternatives, individual indifferences may fail to be transitive. I prove two impossibility theorems for social choice under indifference intransitivity, using axioms that are strictly weaker than Strong Pareto and that have been endorsed (sometimes jointly) in prior work on social choice under indifference intransitivity. The key axiom is Consistency, which states that if bundles are held constant for all b…Read more
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368Recension av Håkan Salwén, Miljöetik: en introduktion (review)Filosofisk Tidskrift 35 (2): 42-45. 2014.
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993Recension av Ann Heberlein, Etik: människa, moral, mening (review)Filosofisk Tidskrift 36 (1): 43-48. 2015.
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