Philosophy Seminar | Condorcet's Paradox and Transitive Betterness

The University of Sydney

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

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Daniel Muñoz (Monash)Condorcet&#x27;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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