Befolkningsetikens asymmetri och fortplantningens tillåtlighet

Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier bjuder in till de årliga Burmanföreläsningarna i filosofi. Årets gästföreläsare är Professor Jeff McMahan, University of Oxford, som ger tre öppna föreläsningar under tre dagar om etiken kring att skapa, rädda och avsluta liv.

Föreläsning 2 (titel på engelska): The Population Ethics Asymmetry and the Permissibility of Procreation

Torsdag 2 december kl. 13.15-15.00, Hörsal NAT.D.450

Abstract (på engelska): Many people accept that there is a moral reason to cause a better-off person to exist rather than a different, less well-off person. I will argue that most of those who do not already accept this claim ought to do so since, because of Parfit’s Non-Identity Problem, it provides the only plausible basis for a strong moral objection to causing future people to suffer a great range of bad effects as a consequence of such phenomena as climate change. I will also argue, however, that it is difficult to identify an account of the nature of the reason to cause a better-off rather than a less well-off person to exist that is compatible with the common sense view that there is no moral reason to cause a person to exist just because that person’s life would be well worth living. This puts pressure on us to reject this latter view, which, I will argue, is also incompatible with another common sense view with which it is often paired – namely, that there is a strong moral reason not to cause a person to exist if that person’s life would be intrinsically bad, or not worth living.

Fler Burmanföreläsningar

Föreläsning 1 (titel på engelska): Abortion, Prenatal Injury, and What Matters in Alternative Possible Lives
Onsdag 1 december kl. 13.15-15.00, Hörsal NAT.D.450

Föreläsning 3 (titel på engelska): Moral Reasons to Cause People to Exist
Fredag 3 december kl. 13.15-15.00, Hörsal NAT.D.450

Föreläsningarna ges på engelska. Alla intresserade är välkomna till dessa föreläsningar!

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Läs mer om professor McMahan här: https://www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/people/jeff-mcmahan