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

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