Population ethics in an infinite universe.
Population ethics studies the tradeoff between the total number of people who will ever live, and their quality of life. But widely accepted theories in modern cosmology say that spacetime is probably infinite. In this case, its population is also probably infinite, so the quantity/quality tradeoff...
| Publicado en: | Philosophical Studies Vol. 180; no. 12; pp. 3383 - 3415 |
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Springer Nature
Dec2023
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