Parfit Bio - SIMON BEARD

If you have ever studied moral philosophy, and especially utilitarian moral philosophy, chances are that you have come across the ‘Repugnant Conclusion'. This is a commonly cited objection to the...

Parfit Bio - SJ BEARD SJ BEARD About Existential Hope Research Policy, Media, and Communications Teaching CV Parfit Bio A centuries-old debate about the ethics of future generations may be drawing to a close, but its conclusions raise as many questions as they answer [This article originally included an anecdote about Derek taking legal ownership of a cat who didn't live with him (in order to be able to truthfully start Reasons and Persons with the line "Like my cat..."), which ended up getting considerably more attention than I anticipated, in part because it seems that nobody else had heard

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