Core Readings
Hilary Greaves (2017). “Population Axiology”. In: Philosophy Compass 12.11
Section 2 of Andreas L. Mogensen (2021). “Moral Demands and the Far Future”. In: Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 103.3, pp. 567–585
Additional Readings
Toby Ord (2020). The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity. London: Bloomsbury, chapter 6
Toby Newberry (2021). “How Many Lives Does The Future Hold?” GPI Technical Report No. T2-2021
Katie Steele (forthcoming). “The Minor Role of Totalism in the Longtermists’ Mathematics”. In: Essays On Longtermism. Ed. by Jacob Barrett, David Thorstad, and Hilary Greaves. Oxford University Press
Further Readings
On population ethics in general:
Derek Parfit (1984). Reasons and Persons. Oxford: Clarendon Press (Part 4)
John Broome (2004). Weighing Lives. Oxford: Oxford University Press (especially chapters 4, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13 and 14.)
On impossibility theorems:
Dean Spears and Mark Budolfson (2021). “Repugnant Conclusions”. In: Social Choice and Welfare 57.3, pp. 567–588
Gustaf Arrhenius (2022). “Population Paradoxes Without Transitivity”. In: The Oxford Handbook of Population Ethics. Ed. by Gustaf Arrhenius et al. New York: Oxford University Press. Chap. 8
Jacob M. Nebel (2019). “An Intrapersonal Addition Paradox”. In: Ethics 129.2, pp. 309–343
On context-dependent betterness and the rejection of transitivity:
Johann Frick (2022). “Context-Dependent Betterness and the Mere Addition Paradox”. In: Ethics and Existence: the Legacy of Derek Parfit. Ed. by Jeff McMahan et al. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Chap. 9, pp. 232–263
Larry S. Temkin (1987). “Intransitivity and the Mere Addition Paradox”. In: Philosophy & Public Affairs 16.2, pp. 138–187
Larry S. Temkin (2012). Rethinking the Good: Moral Ideals and the Nature of Practical Reasoning. Oxford: Oxford University Press Scepticism about different-number comparisons:
Ralf M. Bader (2022). “Person-Affecting Utilitarianism”. In: The Oxford Handbook of Population Ethics. Ed. by Gustaf Arrhenius et al. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Chap. 11, pp. 251–270