Preface
Acknowledgments
A Note to the Reader
1. MORAL DESERT
1.1 A Familiar Thought
1.2 Some Familiar Questions
1.3 Skepticism
1.4 Intrinsic Value
1.5 Unfamiliar Questions
PART I: NONCOMPARATIVE DESERT
2. FAULT FORFEITS FIRST
2.1 The Basic View
2.2 Pluralism
2.3 Extending the Account
2.4 Discount Rates and Multipliers
3. DESERT GRAPHS
3.1 Graphs
3.2 Varying Slopes
3.3 Rotation
3.4 Peaks
3.5 Multiple Peaks
3.6 Comparing Sides
3.7 Bell Motion
3.8 The Sym Mountain
3.9 Shift
4. SKYLINES
4.1 The Occupation of the X Axis
4.2 Constant Skylines
4.3 The V Shaped Skyline
4.4 Varieties of Desert
4.5 Taking Stock
PART II: COMPLICATIONS AND ALTERNATIVES
5. OTHER SHAPES
5.1 Plateaus
5.2 Retributivism and Plateaus
5.3 Simple Straight Lines
5.4 Bent Lines
5.5 Curved Desert
5.6 Detailing Curved Desert
5.7 Curved Plateaus
6. PLACING PEAKS
6.1 The Mapping Function
6.2 Curved Mapping Functions
6.3 Revisiting the Sym Mountain
6.4 Revisiting the V Shaped Skyline
6.5 Further Constraints on the Skyline
6.6 The Logical Limits of Bell Motion
6.7 Disaggregation
PART III: COMPARATIVE DESERT
7. THE RATIO VIEW
7.1 The Idea of Comparative Desert
7.2 Problems for the Ratio View
7.3 Optimism
7.4 The Impossibility Defense
7.5 Absolute Zero
8. SIMILAR OFFENSE
8.1 The Y Gap View
8.2 Reconsidering the Cases
8.3 More on the Y Gap Constraint
8.4 Percentages
8.5 A Fourth View
9. GRAPHING COMPARATIVE DESERT
9.1 Relative Advantage
9.2 Two Problems
9.3 Graphing the X Gap View
9.4 Motion Along the Y Axis
9.5 Graphing the Y Gap View
10. VARIATION
10.1 Comparative Bell Motion
10.2 Comparative Skylines
10.3 Moral Significance Again
10.4 Two More Possibilities
10.5 One Size Fits All
10.6 Sliding Up
11. GROUPS
11.1 Two Approaches
11.2 Size
11.3 Another Look
11.4 Adjusting the Graphs
11.5 Variable Steepness Reconsidered
PART IV: DESERT
12. DESERT TAKEN AS A WHOLE
12.1 Partial Values
12.2 Open Questions
12.3 Rough Comparability
12.4 Another Series
12.5 Other Values
13. RESERVATIONS
13.1 Deontology
13.2 Methodology
13.3 Ideology
Endnotes
References
Index