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A dilemma for lexical and Archimedean views in population axiology
- Abstract:
- Lexical views in population axiology can avoid the Repugnant Conclusion without violating Transitivity or Separability. However, they imply a dilemma: either some good life is better than any number of slightly worse lives, or else the ‘at least as good as’ relation on populations is radically incomplete. In this paper, I argue that Archimedean views face an analogous dilemma. I thus conclude that the lexical dilemma gives us little reason to prefer Archimedean views. Even if we give up on lexicality, problems of the same kind remain.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1017/S0266267121000213
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- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Journal:
- Economy and Philosophy More from this journal
- Volume:
- 38
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- 395-415
- Publication date:
- 2021-09-06
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1474-0028
- ISSN:
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0266-2671
- Language:
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English
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- Pubs id:
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1551350
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pubs:1551350
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2023-11-01
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- Copyright holder:
- Elliott Thornley
- Copyright date:
- 2022
- Rights statement:
- © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press
- Notes:
- This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from Cambridge University Press at: https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0266267121000213
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