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1st Edition

The Ethics of Inefficacy

Edited By Mattias Gunnemyr, Rutger van Oeveren, Jan Willem Wieland Copyright 2027

480 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

Description

If my booking a flight doesn’t make a difference to the plane taking off and to climate change, what reason is there for me not to fly? If my small donation doesn’t make a difference to what Doctors Without Borders can achieve, why should I donate? If my purchase of a factory-farmed chicken doesn’t make a difference to how many chickens suffer and die, why not just buy it These questions reflect... Read more

Table of Contents

1. The Inefficacy Problem Mattias Gunnemyr, Rutger van Oeveren, and Jan Willem Wieland

Part 1: Instrumental Solutions

2. Instrumental Solutions to the Inefficacy Problem Mattias Gunnemyr and Rutger van Oeveren

3. Why (In)efficacy Matters After All Joakim Sandberg

4. Continued Inefficacy Mark Budolfson

5. Is There an Inefficacy Problem? Zach Barnett

6. Normative Resilience and the Inefficacy Problem Henrik Andersson and Jakob Werkmäster

7. Threshold Contractualism Frank Hindriks

8. The Strength of Instrumental Reasons Mattias Gunnemyr

9. Instrumental Reasons for the Powerless Gunnar Björnsson

10. The Problem of Mixed Optimality Nikhil Venkatesh

11. The Structure of Outcome Responsibility Carolina Sartorio

Part 2: Non-instrumental Solutions

12. Non-Instrumental Solutions to the Inefficacy Problem Jan Willem Wieland

13. Benevolence, Free Riding, and Efficacy Chrisoula Andreou

14. Kantian Imperfect Duties, Latitude, and Permissible Collective Harm Dmitry Ananiev

15. Wasted Effort and Universalization Jan Willem Wieland

16. Minimal Requirements of Beneficence for Collective Impact Problems Tijn Milan Smits

17. Contributing Enough: Acting in the Absence of a Relevant Difference Säde Hormio

18. Trading with Tyrants James Christensen

Part 3: Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Rationality

19. Two Types of Temptation Tessa Supèr

20. The Inefficacy Problem: The Emperor’s New Clothes? Annalisa Costella

21. Rescuing Ourselves from the Pond Analogy Julia Nefsky and Sergio Tenenbaum

22. Lifestyle Politics Is Not Politics Holly Lawford-Smith and William Tuckwell

Editor(s)

Biography

Mattias Gunnemyr is a postdoctoral researcher in the Financial Ethics group at the University of Gothenburg. His research focuses on collective harm, moral responsibility, ethical issues in finance, and the measurement of corporate and investor climate impact, as well as related questions of causality.

Rutger van Oeveren is a Ph.D. student at Rutgers University. He has published work on moral responsibility and the ethics of inefficacy.

Jan Willem Wieland is Associate Professor of Ethics at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He specializes in collective action, shared responsibility, responsibility for climate change, and for historical injustice.

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