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Tim Mulgan

Disciplines:
political philosophy
ethics

Summary

New Zealand philosopher who has worked on rule consequentialism, the ethics of future generations, and the ethics of living in a broken world (after catastrophic climate change).

Core Contribution

The Demands of Consequentialism: a systematic analysis of how demanding consequentialism is and whether this is a problem. Future People: ethics of future generations under uncertainty. Ethics for a Broken World: philosophical reflection on what ethics looks like after ecological collapse.

Key Spikes & Highlights

  • Ethics for a Broken World is written as if the lecturer is speaking in a post-collapse future where basic needs are not met — a philosophical thought experiment that makes the demands of ethics newly vivid.

Notable Works & Achievements

The Demands of Consequentialism

Future People

Ethics for a Broken World

Historical Influences

Peter Singer Derek Parfit

Intellectual Lineage

Analytic Ethics

Contemporaries & Peers

Brad Hooker

Minds Influenced

No recorded minds influenced.

Intellectual Posterity

Future Generations Ethics

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