Is a person-affecting solution to the nonidentity problem impossible? Axiology, accessibility and additional people

Canadian Journal of Philosophy 47 (2-3):200-228 (2017)
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This paper considers two objections based in axiological considerations against the position that whether a given outcome, or possible future or world, is morally worse than a second world may depend in part on what is going on at a third world. Such a wide-angled approach to determining worseness is critical to the solution I have previously proposed in connection with the nonidentity problem. I argue that both objections fail.

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Melinda A. Roberts
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