Yes! Nice paper! Lexical views don’t get as much attention in economics as in philosophy, but it’s well worth tracking down and sealing off that apparent leak. And, as you point out, being sensible about risk puts a lot of discipline on our proposals for population ethics.
… so let’s stop writing in a way that assumes that avoiding the RC is necessary to be “satisfactory.” :) Then a satisfactory population ethics is possible!
And agreed! The title of the paper is intended as a riff on the title of the chapter where Arrhenius gives his sixth impossibility theorem: ‘The Impossibility of a Satisfactory Population Ethics.’ I think that an RC-implying theory can still be satisfactory.
Yes! Nice paper! Lexical views don’t get as much attention in economics as in philosophy, but it’s well worth tracking down and sealing off that apparent leak. And, as you point out, being sensible about risk puts a lot of discipline on our proposals for population ethics.
… so let’s stop writing in a way that assumes that avoiding the RC is necessary to be “satisfactory.” :) Then a satisfactory population ethics is possible!
Thanks!
And agreed! The title of the paper is intended as a riff on the title of the chapter where Arrhenius gives his sixth impossibility theorem: ‘The Impossibility of a Satisfactory Population Ethics.’ I think that an RC-implying theory can still be satisfactory.