For 10 points, name this British philosopher whose Reasons and Persons describes the "repugnant conclusion."
This philosopher challenged the idea the equality is valuable in itself with what he called the "Leveling Down Objection" in his Lindley lecture, "Equality and Priority." In another book, this philosopher identified five cognitive errors that lead people to believe acts affecting large numbers of people cannot be evaluated through consequentialism. This philosopher defined moral laws as those that were "optimi3c, uniquely universally willable, and not reasonably rejectable," which is his "Triple Theory" of morality. This philosopher argued that person X at t1 and person Y at t2 were identical if they were related through "relation R," which he illustrated with his teletransporter thought experiment. In his major work, this author of On What Matters probes utilitarianism for vulnerability to the "mere addition" paradox, a preference for a large population of less happy people. For 10 points, name this British philosopher whose Reasons and Persons describes the "repugnant conclusion."
This philosopher challenged the idea the equality is valuable in itself with what he called the "Leveling Down Objection" in his Lindley lecture, "Equality and Priority."
Derek Parfit