Peter Singer - Ethics, Uncertainty & Moral Progress
Peter Singer moral progress & ethics involved in dealing with uncertainty, including Derek Parfit's view on the value of future life (as yet unrealised). He also discusses Trump and alt-facts at the end. Points covered: - The future of moral progress - The Value of Future Life (as yet unrealised) - Dealing with Uncertainty - Parfit's Thought Experiment on the Value of Merely Possible Lives (including a thought experiment) - Population Ethics: The Person Affecting View & the Total View - The Overwhelming Importance of the Far Future - Tractable Uncertainty - Future Directions in Dealing With Uncertainty - Climate Change (and pessimism about our ability to deal with it) - Optimism About the Future - Values as Objective Normative Truths - Public Ethics in the Trump Era