The Good, the Right, Life and Death

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Contents: Introduction, Jason R. Raibley. Part I The Good: Desert as fit: an axiomatic analysis, Gustaf Arrhenius Incomparability and measurement of value, Erik Carlson Indeterminate desert, Shelly Kagan Indeterminate value, basic value, and summation, Noah M. Lemos Feldman's hedonism, L.W. Sumner. Part II The Right: Feldman, rule-consequentialism, and desert, Brad Hooker Adjusting utility for justice: a reexamination of the connections between desert and intrinsic value, Owen McLeod What consequentialism is not, Ingmar Persson The relevance of risk to wrongdoing, Michael J. Zimmerman. Part III Life and Death: Dispositions toward counterfactuals in ethics, Earl Conee Earlier birth and later death: symmetry through thick and thin, John Martin Fischer Revivifying Aristotle on life, Gareth B. Matthews The Lucretian argument, Jeff McMahan Reassessing immortality: the Makropulos case revisited, Jay F. Rosenberg. Bibliography Index.

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