Philosophy Seminar | Condorcet's Paradox and Transitive Betterness

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Philosophy Seminar | Condorcet's Paradox and Transitive Betterness

The next philosophy seminar will take place on 14 April at 3:30pm. Condorcet's Paradox and Transitive Betterness | Daniel Muñoz (Monash)

By The University of Sydney

Date and time

Wed, 14 Apr 2021 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM AEST

Location

Muniment Room

Level 4, Lobby B (Southern Vestibule) Quadrangle A14 University Place Sydney, NSW 2006

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Daniel Muñoz (Monash)

Condorcet's Paradox and Transitive Betterness

How could ‘better than’ fail to be transitive? The leading answer in ethics is that value might vary with context: A can have a higher value when compared to B than when compared to C.

I argue that nontransitivity is possible even if values don’t vary, so long as they are complex, with multiple dimensions aggregated non-additively. I then explore a new hypothesis: that all alleged cases of nontransitive betterness, such as Parfit’s Repugnant Conclusion, can and should be modeled as the result of complexity, not context-relativity.

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The University of Sydney
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