Virtue ethicists one-box, because (a subset of) one-boxers are the ones talking about ‘making yourself into the right kind of agent’.
This seems sort of obvious to me, and I’m kind of surprised that only a bit over half of the virtue ethicists one-box.
[EDIT] I think I was giving the virtue ethicists too much credit and shouldn’t have been that surprised—this is actually a challenging situation to map onto traditional virtues, and ‘invent the new virtue for this situation’ is not that much a standard piece of virtue ethics. I would be surprised if only a bit over half of virtue ethicists pay up in Parfit’s Hitchhiker, even tho the problems are pretty equivalent.
This seems sort of obvious to me, and I’m kind of surprised that only a bit over half of the virtue ethicists one-box.
[EDIT] I think I was giving the virtue ethicists too much credit and shouldn’t have been that surprised—this is actually a challenging situation to map onto traditional virtues, and ‘invent the new virtue for this situation’ is not that much a standard piece of virtue ethics. I would be surprised if only a bit over half of virtue ethicists pay up in Parfit’s Hitchhiker, even tho the problems are pretty equivalent.