124 Pages
by
Routledge
124 Pages
by
Routledge
124 Pages
by
Routledge
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The Repugnant Conclusion is a controversial theorem about population size. It states that a sufficiently large population of lives that are barely worth living is better than a smaller population of high quality lives. This is highly counter-intuitive. It implies that we can improve the world by trading quality of life for quantity of lives. Can it be defended? Christopher Cowie explores these... Read more
1.Introduction 2. The Repugnant Conclusion 3. The Quality of Life Strategy 4. Assessing the Strategy 5. Conclusion. Index
Biography
Christopher Cowie is Assistant Professor in Philosophy at the University of Durham, UK. He is author of Morality and Epistemic Judgment: The Argument from Analogy (2019), and co-editor of Companions in Guilt Arguments in Metaethics, also published by Routledge.
