Do Lefty and Righty Matter More Than Lefty Alone?
Derek Parfit argues that fission is prudentially better for you than ordinary death. But is having more fission products with good lives prudentially better for you than having just one? In this paper, we argue that it is. We argue that, if your brain is split and the halves are transplanted into tw...
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| description | Derek Parfit argues that fission is prudentially better for you than ordinary death. But is having more fission products with good lives prudentially better for you than having just one? In this paper, we argue that it is. We argue that, if your brain is split and the halves are transplanted into two recipients (who both have good lives), then it is prudentially better for you if both transplants succeed than if only one of them does (other things being equal). This upshot rules out, among other things, that the prudential value of standing in the relation that matters in survival to multiple people is equal to their average well-being. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:40ed456e-c793-49b9-a315-5de454c941502024-07-20T15:25:11ZDo Lefty and Righty Matter More Than Lefty Alone?Journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:40ed456e-c793-49b9-a315-5de454c94150EnglishJisc Publications RouterSpringer2022Gustafsson, JEKosonen, PDerek Parfit argues that fission is prudentially better for you than ordinary death. But is having more fission products with good lives prudentially better for you than having just one? In this paper, we argue that it is. We argue that, if your brain is split and the halves are transplanted into two recipients (who both have good lives), then it is prudentially better for you if both transplants succeed than if only one of them does (other things being equal). This upshot rules out, among other things, that the prudential value of standing in the relation that matters in survival to multiple people is equal to their average well-being. |
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