Jonas Harney
Biographic Data
| ID | 4392007 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jonas Harney |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jonas |
| FAMILY NAME | Harney |
| SIGNATURE | HARNEY J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6879-2081 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Dual Reason-Giving Force of Welfare: An Exploration
On the Dual View, absolute and comparative welfare provide moral reasons to make individuals well off and better off. Given that dual reason-giving force, what reason does welfare provide overall? I explore two approaches. The Collective Approach first aggregates the absolute and comparative reasons separately before combining them at the collective level. However, it implies that, if an individual gains or loses enough welfare, we have reasons t…
The Interpersonal Comparative View of Welfare: Its Merits and Flaws
According to the person-affecting view, the ethics of welfare should be cashed out in terms of how the individuals are affected. While the narrow version fails to solve the non-identity problem, the wide version is subject to the repugnant conclusion. A middle view promises to do better – the Interpersonal Comparative View of Welfare (ICV). It modifies the narrow view by abstracting away from individuals’ identities to account for interpersonal g…
How to Assess Claims in Multiple‐Option Choice Sets
Particular persons have claims against being made worse off than they could have been.The literature, however, has focused primarily on only two-option cases; yet, these cases fail to capture all of the morally relevant factors, especially when a person's existence is in question.This paper explores how to assess claims in multiple-option choice sets.We scrutinize the only extant proposal, offered by Michael Otsuka, which we call the Weakening Vi…
The Dual Reason-Giving Force of Welfare: An Exploration
On the Dual View, absolute and comparative welfare provide moral reasons to make individuals well off and better off. Given that dual reason-giving force, what reason does welfare provide overall? I explore two approaches. The Collective Approach first aggregates the absolute and comparative reasons separately before combining them at the collective level. However, it implies that, if an individual gains or loses enough welfare, we have reasons t…
How to Assess Claims in Multiple‐Option Choice Sets
Particular persons have claims against being made worse off than they could have been.The literature, however, has focused primarily on only two-option cases; yet, these cases fail to capture all of the morally relevant factors, especially when a person's existence is in question.This paper explores how to assess claims in multiple-option choice sets.We scrutinize the only extant proposal, offered by Michael Otsuka, which we call the Weakening Vi…
The Interpersonal Comparative View of Welfare: Its Merits and Flaws
According to the person-affecting view, the ethics of welfare should be cashed out in terms of how the individuals are affected. While the narrow version fails to solve the non-identity problem, the wide version is subject to the repugnant conclusion. A middle view promises to do better – the Interpersonal Comparative View of Welfare (ICV). It modifies the narrow view by abstracting away from individuals’ identities to account for interpersonal g…
How to Assess Claims in Multiple‐Option Choice Sets
Particular persons have claims against being made worse off than they could have been.The literature, however, has focused primarily on only two-option cases; yet, these cases fail to capture all of the morally relevant factors, especially when a person's existence is in question.This paper explores how to assess claims in multiple-option choice sets.We scrutinize the only extant proposal, offered by Michael Otsuka, which we call the Weakening Vi…
The Dual Reason-Giving Force of Welfare: An Exploration
On the Dual View, absolute and comparative welfare provide moral reasons to make individuals well off and better off. Given that dual reason-giving force, what reason does welfare provide overall? I explore two approaches. The Collective Approach first aggregates the absolute and comparative reasons separately before combining them at the collective level. However, it implies that, if an individual gains or loses enough welfare, we have reasons t…
Economics (2 works) · Philosophical Ethics and Theory (2 works) · Political Philosophy and Ethics (2 works) · Welfare (2 works) · Absolute (philosophy (1 works) · Actuarial science (1 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Asymmetry (1 works) · Capital Investment and Risk Analysis (1 works) · Climate Change Policy and Economics (1 works)