{"id":10983,"date":"2024-01-05T19:53:29","date_gmt":"2024-01-05T19:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/event\/ceppa-talk-in-person-john-broome-oxford\/"},"modified":"2024-04-04T15:09:55","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T14:09:55","slug":"ceppa-talk-in-person-john-broome-oxford","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/event\/ceppa-talk-in-person-john-broome-oxford\/","title":{"rendered":"CEPPA Talk (in person) &#8211; John Broome (Oxford)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Location:<\/strong> Edgecliffe G03<\/p>\n<p><strong>Title<\/strong>: The Continuum Argument Is Invalid<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_elementToProof\"><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(23, 78, 134)\"><b>Abstract: <\/b><\/span><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(23, 78, 134)\">Derek Parfit argues by means of something he calls a \u2018continuum argument\u2019 that a particular <\/span><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(23, 78, 134)\">appealing premise in population axiology implies a conclusion that he and many others <\/span><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(23, 78, 134)\">consider repugnant.<\/span><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(23, 78, 134)\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(23, 78, 134)\">He treats this as a paradox, and takes up the challenge of resolving it. He <\/span><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(23, 78, 134)\">looks for a way to avoid the repugnant conclusion. The solution he offers depends on the <\/span><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(23, 78, 134)\">existence of imprecision within the relation of betterness among populations. Other <\/span><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(23, 78, 134)\">philosophers have taken up the same challenge, following Parfit\u2019s lead, and offered similar <\/span><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(23, 78, 134)\">solutions. <\/span><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(23, 78, 134)\">I shall show that actually the repugnant conclusion is not implied by Parfit\u2019s appealing <\/span><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(23, 78, 134)\">principle. The continuum argument is invalid. There is therefore no paradox and no real <\/span><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(23, 78, 134)\">challenge. Moreover, the explanation of why this is so has nothing to do with imprecision, <\/span><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(23, 78, 134)\">incompleteness, incommensurateness, indeterminacy or vagueness in betterness. It is <\/span><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(23, 78, 134)\">consistent with a sharp, complete betterness ordering.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Location: Edgecliffe G03 Title: The Continuum Argument Is Invalid Abstract: Derek Parfit argues by means of something he calls a \u2018continuum argument\u2019 that a particular appealing premise in population axiology&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","_tribe_events_is_hybrid":"","_tribe_events_is_virtual":"","_tribe_events_virtual_video_source":"","_tribe_events_virtual_embed_video":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button_text":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_at":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_to":[],"_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_event":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_views":"","_tribe_events_virtual_url":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[20],"class_list":["post-10983","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry","tribe_events_cat-ceppa-talk","cat_ceppa-talk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/10983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/10983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11440,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/10983\/revisions\/11440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10983"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=10983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}