Journal article
The benefits of coming into existence
- Abstract:
- This paper argues that we can benefit or harm people by creating them, but only in the sense that we can create things that are good or bad for them. What we cannot do is to confer comparative benefits and harms to people by creating them or failing to create them. You are not better off (or worse off) created than you would have been had you not been created, for nothing has value for you if you do not exist, not even neutral value.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1007/s11098-005-3982-x
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- Publisher:
- Springer
- Journal:
- Philosophical Studies More from this journal
- Volume:
- 135
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- 335-362
- Publication date:
- 2007-09-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1573-0883
- ISSN:
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0031-8116
- Language:
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English
- Subjects:
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ora:3505
- Deposit date:
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2010-03-15
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- Copyright holder:
- Springer
- Copyright date:
- 2006
- Notes:
- The full-text of this article is not currently available in ORA, but you may be able to access the article via the publisher copy link on this record page. Citation: Bykvist, K. (2007). 'The benefits of coming into existence', Philosophical Studies 135(3), 335-362. The final publication is available at www.springerlink.com
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