Some possibilities in population axiology

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 the Repugnant Conclusion or in some other way contradict common intuitions about the relative value...

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Main Author: Thomas, T
Format: Journal article
Published: Oxford University Press 2017