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.