The Non-Identity Problem and the Ethics of Future People

Boonin, David

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“…8. this cases also appears in my (2015) chapter, and it is an adaptation of cases that appear in thomson (2010), hanser (2009), harman (2009), and Boonin (2015).…”

Section: The Non-identity Problem and The Non-comparative Account Of mentioning

confidence: 61%

“…include Fiona Woollard (2012Woollard ( ), derek parfit (1987, and david Boonin (2015). i defend my harmbased approach against the latter line of objection in my unpublished manuscript, On the Strength of the Reason against Harming (2015).…”

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“…after all, Barbara's action causes discomfort and disease, and 5. as i have formulated it, the non-comparative account of harming combines multiple ideas, a subset of which many philosophers endorse, but it is not an exact statement of any one philosopher's view. philosophers who critique but do not endorse something like the non-comparative account of harming include matthew hanser (2008), Judith thomson (2010), Ben Bradley (2012), and david Boonin (2015). a philosopher who endorses something like the non-comparative account as a complete analysis of harming is Seana Shiffrin (1999).…”

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A Harm-Based Solution to the Non-Identity Problem

Gardner¹

2015

Ergo, an Open Access Journal of Philosophy

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“…8. this cases also appears in my (2015) chapter, and it is an adaptation of cases that appear in thomson (2010), hanser (2009), harman (2009), and Boonin (2015).…”

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A Harm-Based Solution to the Non-Identity Problem

Gardner¹

2015

Ergo, an Open Access Journal of Philosophy

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“…The non-identity problem arises in cases in which numerically different people will exist depending on which action is performed. Here is a typical case, borrowing most details from the main case in David Boonin's recent, book-length treatment of the non-identity problem (Boonin 2014; see also Parfit 1984: 358):…”

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The Subject of Harm in Non-Identity Cases

Johansson

2018

Ethic Theory Moral Prac

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In a typical non-identity case, the agent performs an action that causes someone to exist at a low but positive level of well-being, although an alternative was to create another, much happier person instead. There seem to be strong moral reasons against what the agent does, but it is difficult to explain how this can be so. In particular, it seems that on a simple counterfactual account of harm, the action does not harm anyone, as it does not make anyone worse off than he or she would have been had the action not been performed. In this paper, I criticize the response that the action nevertheless harms the actual child, as well as the response that it makes the counterfactual child worse off. I argue that the following alternative view deserves attention: a compound of the actual and the counterfactual child is made worse off by the action.

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“…In Sect. 2 we discuss the proposals by David Boonin (Boonin 2014) and Justin Klocksiem (Klocksiem 2012), each of whom argues that CCA as it stands can handle the problem.…”

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The preemption problem

Johansson

Risberg

2017

Philos Stud

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According to the standard version of the counterfactual comparative account of harm, an event is overall harmful for an individual if and only if she would have been on balance better off if it had not occurred. This view faces the ''preemption problem.'' In the recent literature, there are various ingenious attempts to deal with this problem, some of which involve slight additions to, or modifications of, the counterfactual comparative account. We argue, however, that none of these attempts work, and that the preemption problem continues to haunt the counterfactual comparative account.

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The Non-Identity Problem and the Ethics of Future People

Cited by 113 publications

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A Harm-Based Solution to the Non-Identity Problem

A Harm-Based Solution to the Non-Identity Problem

The Subject of Harm in Non-Identity Cases

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