Counterexamples to the transitivity of better than

Australasian Journal of Philosophy

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 71-83

  Rachels, Stuart ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 22544472841     PISSN: 00048402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00048409812348201     Document Type: Review

References (7)

1. Derek Parfit, 'Overpopulation and the Quality of Life,' Applied Ethics, (ed.) Peter Singer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986) pp. 160-161
2. Quoted in Geir Kjetsaa, Fyodor Dostoevsky: A Writer's Life, tr. Siri Hustvedt and David McDuff (New York: Viking, 1987) p. 149
3. Thomas Nagel, Mortal Questions (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979) p. 52
4. Parfit, 'Overpopulation and the Quality of Life' p. 163
5. Temkin, Inequality, p. 290
6. Robert Nozick, The Nature of Rationality (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993) p. 140, fn
7. As reported by Tonkin, 'A Continuum Argument for Intransitivity,' p. 209