Some Versions of the Number Problem Have No Solution Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • This article addresses Taruek's much discussed Number Problem from a non-consequentialist point of view. I argue that some versions of the Number Problem have no solution, meaning that no alternative is at least as choice-worthy as the others, and that the best way to behave in light of such moral indeterminacy is to let chance make the decision. I contrast my proposal with F M Kamm's nonconsequentialist argument for saving the greatest number, the Argument for Best Outcomes, which I argue does not follow from the premises it is based on. 2009 Springer Science+Business Media B.V.

published proceedings

  • Ethical Theory and Moral Practice

author list (cited authors)

  • Peterson, M.

citation count

  • 2

complete list of authors

  • Peterson, Martin

publication date

  • August 2010