2024
DOI: 10.1007/s11098-024-02102-0
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On the desire to make a difference

Hilary Greaves,
Teruji Thomas,
Andreas Mogensen
et al.

Abstract: True benevolence is, most fundamentally, a desire that the world be better. It is natural and common, however, to frame thinking about benevolence indirectly, in terms of a desire to make a difference to how good the world is. This would be an innocuous shift if desires to make a difference were extensionally equivalent to desires that the world be better. This paper shows that at least on some common ways of making a “desire to make a difference” precise, this extensional equivalence fails. Where it fails, “d… Show more

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