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The Significance of...
The Significance of Tiny Contributions : Barnett and Beyond
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- Carlson, Erik, 1961- (författare)
- Uppsala universitet,Avdelningen för praktisk filosofi
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- Jedenheim-Edling, Magnus, 1960- (författare)
- Uppsala universitet,Avdelningen för praktisk filosofi
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- Johansson, Jens (författare)
- Uppsala universitet,Avdelningen för praktisk filosofi
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- 2021
- 2021
- Engelska.
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Ingår i: Utilitas. - 0953-8208 .- 1741-6183. ; 33:4, s. 488-496
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- In a discussion of Parfit's Drops of Water case, Zach Barnett has recently proposed a novel argument against “No Small Improvement”; that is, the claim that a single drop of water cannot affect the magnitude of a thirsty person's suffering. We first show that Barnett's argument can be significantly strengthened, and also that the fundamental idea behind it yields a straightforward argument for the transitivity of equal suffering (a much stronger and more important conclusion than Barnett's). We then suggest that defenders of No Small Improvement could reject a Pareto principle that is presupposed in Barnett's argument and our developments of it. However, this does not save No Small Improvement, since there is a convincing argument against this claim that does not presuppose the Pareto principle.
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- HUMANIORA -- Filosofi, etik och religion -- Filosofi (hsv//swe)
- HUMANITIES -- Philosophy, Ethics and Religion -- Philosophy (hsv//eng)
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