The Parity View And Intuitions Of Neutrality
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One response to Derek Parfit s mere addition paradox invokes the relation of parity . Since parity is a form of incommensurateness in John Broome s terms, three doubts which Broome raises about accounts involving incommensurateness in Weighing Lives pose a challenge for this response. I discuss two of these. They emerge from a discussion of various intuitions about neutrality . I argue that an account based on parity may be no less consistent with Broome s intuitions than is his own vagueness view.Download Info
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Article provided by Cambridge University Press in its journal Economics and Philosophy.
Volume (Year): 23 (2007)
Issue (Month): 01 (March)
Pages: 107-114
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