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Utilitarianism and anti-utilitarianism [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2013 This paper presents the different utilitarian approaches to ethics. It stresses the influence of utilitarianism in economics in general and in welfare economics in particular.
Baujard, Antoinette
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Utilitarianism and the pandemic [PDF]
Bioethics, 2020 AbstractThere are no egalitarians in a pandemic. The scale of the challenge for health systems and public policy means that there is an ineluctable need to prioritize the needs of the many. It is impossible to treat all citizens equally, and a failure to carefully consider the consequences of actions could lead to massive preventable loss of life. In a
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Utilitarianism and discrimination [PDF]
Social Choice and Welfare, 2013 Since Becker (1971), a common argument against asymmetric norms that promote minority rights over those of the majority is that such policies reduce total welfare. While this may be the case, we show that there are simple environments where aggregate sum of individual utilities is actually maximized under asymmetric norms that favor minorities. We thus
Alon Harel, Uzi Segal
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Measuring the Consequences of Rules: Holly M. Smith [PDF]
, 2010 Recently two distinct forms of rule-utilitarianism have been introduced that differ on how to measure the consequences of rules. Brad Hooker advocates fixed-rate rule-utilitarianism, while Michael Ridge advocates variable-rate rule-utilitarianism.
Smith, Holly M.
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Utilitarianism and animal cruelty: Further doubts [PDF]
, 2016 Utilitarianism has an apparent pedigree when it comes to animal welfare. It supports the view that animal welfare matters just as much as human welfare. And many utilitarians support and oppose various practices in line with more mainstream concern over ...
Davies, Ben
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Utilitarian epistemology [PDF]
Synthese, 2011 Standard epistemology takes it for granted that there is a special kind of value: epistemic value. This claim does not seem to sit well with act utilitarianism, however, since it holds that only welfare is of real value. I first develop a particularly utilitarian sense of “epistemic value”, according to which it is closely analogous to the nature of ...
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Utilitarianism and Heuristics [PDF]
The Journal of Value Inquiry, 2020 The paper develops an alternative to Expected UtilityAnalyses which are often too complex to use in Utilitarianism.
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CoRR, 2020 We want artificial intelligence (AI) to be beneficial. This is the grounding assumption of most of the attitudes towards AI research. We want AI to be "good" for humanity. We want it to help, not hinder, humans. Yet what exactly this entails in theory and in practice is not immediately apparent.
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