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SUMMARY:Condorcet's Paradox and the Transitivity of Betterness
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LOCATION:20 Chancellor's Walk\, Monash University\, Melbourne\, Australia\, 3183
DESCRIPTION:<p><strong>Abstract:&nbsp\;</strong>&nbsp\;Why are we inclined to think that &lsquo\;better than&rsquo\; is transitive? Larry Temkin&rsquo\;s answer is that we are drawn to the Internal Aspects View\, which says that betterness depends on a comparison of context-independent values. Drawing on insights from social choice theory\, I show that this view yields a distinctive and underappreciated kind of intransitivity if values can have multiple dimensions aggregated by a non-additive method\, such as majority rule.</p>\n\n<p><strong>Bio:</strong>&nbsp\;Daniel&nbsp\;Mu&ntilde\;oz is a Lecturer at Monash University\, where he teaches ethics and PPE (politics\, philosophy\, and economics). He received his PhD from MIT in 2019 and has published in a wide range of areas in philosophy: epistemology\, metaphysics\, philosophy of mind\, and especially normative ethics. These days he is working on a book called&nbsp\;<em>What We Owe to Ourselves&nbsp\;</em>that tries to derive a view of supererogation (or "good deeds beyond the call of duty") from the idea that we owe the same basic respect to ourselves that we owe to anybody else.</p>\n\n<p>To obtain a Zoom link for this event\, please contact the organiser Jacqueline Broad (Jacqueline.Broad@monash.edu).</p>
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