Another defence of the priority view

Utilitas

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 399-440

  Parfit, Derek ^a  

^a ALL SOULS COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84866077191     PISSN: 09538208     EISSN: 17416183     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S095382081200009X     Document Type: Review

References (16)

1. For an excellent discussion of this objection, see Nils Holtug, Persons, Interests, and Justice (Oxford, 2010), ch. 7.
2. Thomas Nagel, Equality and Partiality (Oxford, 1991), p. 11.
3. Wlodek Rabinowicz, 'Prioritarianism for Prospects', Utilitas 14(2002), pp. 2-21
4. and 'Prioritarianism and Uncertainty', Exploring Practical Philosophy: From Action to Values, ed. Dan Egonsson, Jonas Josefsson, Björn Petersson, and Toni Rønnow-Rasmussen (Burlington, Vt., 2001), pp. 139-65.
5. See also David McCarthy, 'Utilitarianism and Prioritarianism II', Economics and Philosophy 24(2008), pp. 1-33, whose claims I hope to discuss elsewhere.
6. For other objections to this principle, see Marc Fleurbaey and Alex Voorhoeve, 'Decide as You Would with Full Information: An Argument against Ex Ante Pareto', Health Inequality: Ethics and Measurement, ed. Nir Eyal, Samia Hurs, Ole Norheim and Dan Wikler (Oxford, forthcoming).
7. 'Why It Matters That Some Are Worse Off Than Others: An Argument against the Priority View', Philosophy & Public Affairs 37(2009), pp. 171-99, sect. 1.
8. See, for example, Scanlon's 'Contractualism and Utilitarianism', Moral Discourse and Practice, ed. Stephen Darwall, Allan Gibbard and Peter Railton (Oxford, 1997), pp. 267-86.
9. Otsuka and Voorhoeve, 'Why It Matters', p. 175.
10. For a discussion of such versions of the Priority View, see Dennis McKerlie, 'Justice Between the Young and the Old', Philosophy & Public Affairs 30(2002), pp. 152-77.
11. 'Prioritarianism for Prospects', p. 16.
12. See, for example, John Broome, 'Fairness', Ethics out of Economics (Cambridge, 1993), pp. 111-22;
13. Frances Kamm, Morality, Mortality, vol. 1(Oxford, 1993), ch. 7;
14. and Larry Sager and Lewis Kornhauser, 'Just Lotteries', Social Science Information 27(1988), pp. 483-516.
15. In Otsuka's and Voorhoeve's words, this view 'cannot countenance any such shift' ('Why It Matters', p. 180).
16. See also my remarks about the Contractualist Priority View in On What Matters, vol. 2(Oxford, 2011), pp. 201-8.