How can one build AI systems such that they pursue the goals their designers want them to
pursue? This is the alignment problem. Numerous authors have raised concerns that, as …

Policy decisions, and public preferences about them, often entail judgements about costs
people should be willing to pay for the benefit of future generations. Economic analyses …

This book aims to provide a rigorous philosophical treatment of the ethical foundations of
fatality risk regulation. Specifically, it will develop a welfare-consequentialist (“welfarist”) …

This chapter provides theoretical foundations for the Prioritarianism in Practice volume. It
does so by analyzing the features of prioritarian social welfare functions (SWFs). A …

Abstract Parfit (Theoria 82: 110–127, 2016) responded to the Sequence Argument for the
Repugnant Conclusion by introducing imprecise equality. However, Parfit's notion of …

It is often claimed that reducing population size would be advantageous for climate change
mitigation, on the grounds that lower population would naturally correspond to lower …

The class of rank-additive social welfare orders (RA SWOs) includes rank-weighted
utilitarian, generalized utilitarian, and rank-discounted generalized utilitarian rules; it is a …

The notion of transgenerational community is usually based on two diachronic interactions.
The first interaction consists of present generations taking up the legacy (not only economic …

Many philosophers are attracted to a complaints-based theory of the procreation asymmetry,
according to which creating a person with a bad life is wrong (all else equal) because that …

Population ethics studies the tradeoff between the total number of people who will ever live,
and their quality of life. But widely accepted theories in modern cosmology say that …