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Equality is a key concept in our moral and political vocabulary. There is wide agreement on
its instrumental value and its favourable impact on many aspects of society, but less certainty …

Prioritarianism is a moral view that ranks outcomes according to the sum of a strictly
increasing and strictly concave transformation of individual well-being. Prioritarianism is …

It is notoriously difficult to find an intuitively satisfactory rule for evaluating populations based
on the welfare of the people in them. Standard examples, like total utilitarianism, either entail …

Suppose that you must make choices that may influence the well-being and the identities of
the people who will exist, though not the number of people who will exist. How ought you to …

The history of philosophical discussions about human nature and justice are replete with
references to our human needs. 1 Many philosophers believed that what we need to live …

I defend a weak version of the Pigou–Dalton principle for chances. The principle says that it
is better to increase the survival chance of a person who is more likely to die rather than a …

Richard Arneson has proposed that prioritarianism be adjusted to incorporate
considerations of individual desert. For those inclined to accept prioritarianism, this …

How should we choose between uncertain prospects in which different possible people
might exist at different levels of well-being? Alex Voorhoeve and Marc Fleurbaey offer an …

Harsanyi claimed that his Aggregation and Impartial Observer Theorems provide a
justification for utilitarianism. This claim has been strongly resisted, notably by Sen and …