Accommodating Counterfactual Attitudes: A Further Reply to Johansson

Here we respond to Johansson's main worry, as laid out in his, "Actual and Counterfactual Attitudes: Reply to Fischer and Brueckner." We show how our principle BF*(dd*) can be adjusted to address this concern compatibly with our fundamental approach to responding to Lucretius.

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Published inThe journal of ethics Vol. 18; no. 1; pp. 19 - 21
Main Authors Fischer, John Martin, Brueckner, Anthony
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Dordrecht Springer 01.03.2014
Springer Netherlands
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
Contrafactuals
Death & dying
Education
Ethics
Nonexistence
Philosophy
Political Philosophy
Psychological attitudes
Deprivation thesis
Lucretius
Asymmetry in attitudes
Jens Johansson
Prenatal and posthumous non-existence
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Summary:Here we respond to Johansson's main worry, as laid out in his, "Actual and Counterfactual Attitudes: Reply to Fischer and Brueckner." We show how our principle BF*(dd*) can be adjusted to address this concern compatibly with our fundamental approach to responding to Lucretius.
ISSN:1382-4554
1572-8609
DOI:10.1007/s10892-013-9157-7