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Acknowledgments; Dedication; List of accepted principles and rejected principles; Lists of figures; Preface; Chapter 1: Recent history and current perplexed state of population ethics; 1.1 Population variability and the inquiry into existential status; 1.2 The case of Jaime versus Harry; 1.3 A quick turn back to traditional total view; 1.4 More than one way to maximize: maximizing on the aggregate; maximizing on the individual; 1.5 Are hormones to blame?; 1.6 Conceptual necessities also puzzle pieces; more inventive approaches on hold; 1.7 The puzzle method; the role of intuition; the off ramp; 1.8 Connection thesis; accessibility relation; 1.9 Five existence puzzles; Chapter 2: The Asymmetry Puzzle; 2.1 The miserable child case and the happy child case; 2.2 The puzzle; 2.3 Attempts to solve the puzzle that go nowhere; 2.4 The existence-sensitive solution to the asymmetry; 2.5 Objections and replies; Chapter 3: The Pareto puzzle; 3.1 The three option case; 3.2 The puzzle; 3.3 Attempts to solve the puzzle by tossing out some of the puzzle pieces; 3.4 The Pareto minus solution to the Pareto puzzle; 3.5 Objection and reply: Doesn’t the Pareto minus solution violate the independence of irrelevant alternatives?; Chapter 4: The Addition Puzzle; 4.1 The puzzle; 4.2 Why we love addition; 4.3 Inversive existence-sensitive solution to the addition puzzle; 4.4 Objection and reply: Isn’t inversive existence-sensitive addition circular?; 4.5 Applications of inversive existence-sensitive addition; 4.6 Wouldn’t it be simpler to minimize aggregate complaints?; Chapter 5: The Anonymity Puzzle; 5.1 The case of simple addition and reversal; 5.2 The case of indefinitely iterated addition and reversal; the puzzle; 5.3 When the cures are worse than the disease; 5.4 Identity-sensitive solution to the anonymity puzzle; 5.5 Objections and replies; Chapter 6: The Better Chance Puzzle; 6.1 Probability questions; 6.2 Expected value: the wrong way to make a wrong a right; 6.3 Probable value: a better way to make a wrong a right; 6.4 Objections and replies; Chapter 7: Person-based consequentialism and a New Way of Doing the Best We Can; Appendix A: Nonexistence Comparability; Appendix B: The Loss Distinction Thesis; Appendix C: Broome on the Neutrality Intuition; Index; Bibliography

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