• March 14, 2025
  • 3:00p.m. - 5:00p.m.
  • Social Science Plaza B, Room 1222
  • Harvey Lederman, Professor, Department of Philosophy, The University of Texas at Austin

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In this study, Lederman and Goodman provide a new argument that betterness is incomplete: there are possible situations neither of which is at least as good as the other. Unlike more familiar arguments for this conclusion, assumptions are consistent with completeness for individual wellbeing levels, and do not require cases involving a variable population. A key idea is to isolate and motivate a particular sense in which betterness is impartial.

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  • Contact: Logan Lanis, llanis@uci.edu, or Olga Dunaevsky, odunaevs@uci.edu
  • Sponsor: Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science

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