The case for comparability

C Dorr, JM Nebel, J Zuehl - Noûs, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We argue that all comparative expressions in natural language obey a principle that we call
Comparability: if xx and yy are at least as FF as themselves, then either xx is at least as FF …

Consequentialism and collective action

B Hedden - Ethics, 2020 - journals.uchicago.edu
Many consequentialists argue that you ought to do your part in collective action problems
like climate change mitigation because (i) all such problems are triggering cases and (ii) …

Multidimensional adjectives

J D'Ambrosio, B Hedden - Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Multidimensional adjectives are ubiquitous in natural language. An adjective F is
multidimensional just in case whether F applies to an object or pair of objects depends on …

Totalism without repugnance

JM Nebel - Ethics and existence: The legacy of Derek Parfit, 2022 - books.google.com
Totalism without repugnance Page 211 8 Totalism without Repugnance Jacob M. Nebel 8.1
Introduction According to Totalism: One distribution of well-being is better than another just in …

Pareto principles in infinite ethics

A Askell - 2018 - philpapers.org
It is possible that the world contains infinitely many agents that have positive and negative
levels of well-being. Theories have been developed to ethically rank such worlds based on …

Partial aggregation in ethics

J Horton - Philosophy Compass, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Is there any number of people you should save from paralysis rather than saving one person
from death? Is there any number of people you should save from a migraine rather than …

The sum of well-being

JM Nebel - Mind, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Is well-being the kind of thing that can be summed across individuals? This paper takes a
measurement-theoretic approach to answering this question. To make sense of adding well …

Spectrum arguments and hypersensitivity

T Pummer - Philosophical Studies, 2018 - Springer
Larry Temkin famously argues that what he calls spectrum arguments yield strong reason to
reject Transitivity, according to which the 'all-things-considered better than'relation is …

Ethics without numbers

JM Nebel - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This paper develops and explores a new framework for theorizing about the measurement
and aggregation of well‐being. It is a qualitative variation on the framework of social welfare …

Infinite aggregation and risk

H Wilkinson - Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Aggregative theories of moral value have difficulty in ranking worlds that each contain
infinitely many valuable events. And, although there are several existing proposals for doing …