Has anyone responded to Bostrom's argument against aggregative ethics?

2011-10-20 Thread nihil0
Hi, Here is the abstract of Bostrom's Infinitarian Challenge to Aggregative Ethics Aggregative consequentialism and several other popular moral theories are threatened with paralysis: when coupled with some plausible assumptions, they seem to imply that it is always ethically indifferent what

Re: Has anyone responded to Bostrom's argument against aggregative ethics?

2011-10-20 Thread nihil0
of the multiverse where good things happen.” Jesse On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 2:23 PM, nihil0 jonathan.wol...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Here is the abstract of Bostrom's Infinitarian Challenge to Aggregative Ethics Aggregative consequentialism and several other popular moral theories

Re: Has anyone responded to Bostrom's argument against aggregative ethics?

2011-10-20 Thread nihil0
the portion of the multiverse where good things happen.” Jesse On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 2:23 PM, nihil0 jonathan.wol...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Here is the abstract of Bostrom's Infinitarian Challenge to Aggregative Ethics Aggregative consequentialism and several other popular moral

Re: Has anyone responded to Bostrom's argument against aggregative ethics?

2011-10-20 Thread nihil0
actions as morally equivalent, if the universe might be canonically infinite. Jon On Oct 21, 2:50 am, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/20/2011 6:37 PM, nihil0 wrote: However, this class action argument assumes that the value-density approach is an acceptable way to measure the value

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2011-09-27 Thread nihil0
, establishing, for example, a uniform temperature. Cheers, Jon On Sep 27, 2:46 am, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 9/26/2011 10:35 PM, nihil0 wrote: It's a little late for this post since I've already posted 2 or 3 things, but I figured I might as well introduce myself. I'm

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2011-09-27 Thread nihil0
On 9/27/2011 4:18 PM, nihil0 wrote: 1) There is an infinite number of Hubble volumes in our universe, which are all casually disconnected (as the theory of inflation implies). 2) There is a limit on how much matter and energy can exist within a region of space of a given size

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2011-09-26 Thread nihil0
It's a little late for this post since I've already posted 2 or 3 things, but I figured I might as well introduce myself. I'm majoring at philosophy at the University of Michigan, however I'm studying abroad for a trimester at Oxford. I turn 21 on Oct. 4. The main questions I've been researching

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing?

2011-09-21 Thread nihil0
or boundary is the same as the strings/membranes that physicists think make up the universe.     Anyways, thanks again for restarting this thread!                                                                Roger On Sep 19, 2:27 am, nihil0 jonathan.wol...@gmail.com wrote: Hi

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing?

2011-09-19 Thread nihil0
Hi everyone, This is my first post on the List. I find this topic fascinating and I'm impressed with everyone's thoughts about it. I'm not sure if you're aware of this, but it has been discussed on a few other Everything threads. Norman Samish posted the following to the thread Tipler Weighs In