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ACT 4 OF 4

Science, justice, and future responsibility

Consider changing scientific communities, fair institutions, and duties to people not yet born.

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1984OxfordPublication

THE QUESTION IN THIS SCENE

Published in Oxford, Reasons and Persons makes future identity and population ethics central philosophical problems.

Parfit — Can we harm future people whose existence depends on our choice?

If a better policy would have meant that this person never existed, can the present policy be said to make that person worse off?

Cambridge, MA → Oxford

Why this scene is pinned here

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The Nonidentity Problem
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Locator: Bibliography, Parfit 1984, Reasons and Persons, Oxford University Press
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