Volume 22, Number 3
September 2022
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Critical Levels, Critical Ranges, and Imprecise Exchange Rates in Population Axiology

Volume 22, Number 3, September 2022, Pages 382–414
https://doi.org/10.26556/jesp.v22i3.1593
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Abstract

According to critical-level views in population axiology, an extra life improves a population if and only if that life’s welfare level exceeds some fixed “critical level.” An extra life at the critical level leaves the new population equally good as the original. According to critical-range views, an extra life improves a population if and only if that life’s welfare level exceeds some fixed “critical range.” An extra life within the critical range leaves the new population incommensurable with the original.
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