Event
One day workshop on population ethics
Saturday, March 26, 2011
How do we decide the optimal size of future population? What is the value of a future individual鈥檚 life? What do we owe to future individuals? Is social contract with future individuals possible? Is it better or worse to add an extra person to the world? How do we weigh the life of a present person and the life of a future person? This workshop will offer an opportunity to discuss these fundamental ethical questions and to examine the recent theoretical discussions provoked by Derek Parfit (Reasons and Persons), John Broome (Weighing Lives), Tim Mulgan (Future People) and so on.