Priority or Equality for Possible People?

Political Theory Seminar Series

Lecture

Suppose that under conditions of risk, you must make choices that will influence the utility and the identities of the people who will exist—though not the number of people who will exist. How ought you to choose? In his paper Alex Voorhoeve (LSE) develops the most plausible prioritarian and egalitarian answers to this question.

He also argues for the superiority of the egalitarian answer. In so doing, it proposes a new object of distributive concern: the expected utility of an individual conditional on his existence. The paper is co-authored with Marc Fleurbaey (Princeton University).

 

About  Alex Voorhoeve

Alex Voorhoeve is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method at the LSE.

Registration

Please register with Luara Ferracioli: L.L.Ferracioli@uva.nl. She will send you the chapters and/or paper in advance. 

About the Political Theory Seminar Series

The Political Theory Seminar Series takes place at least monthly in the UvA Political Science Department. The series brings together political theorists and philosophers from Europe and further afield. The seminar is attended by UvA faculty and PhD students, and also has regular participants from the many neighboring Universities.

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