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Axiomatic Bayesian Utilitarianism [PDF]

open access: yes
L'article examine les relations qu'entretiennent les conditions suivantes, formulées dans la théorie axiomatique de la décision de Jeffrey-Bolker. (1) La condition utilitariste voulant que l'utilité espérée de la société se représente comme une somme ...
Richard Bradley
core  

Walras avait-il raison de critiquer Dupuit ?

open access: yesŒconomia, 2011
We are well aware of Walras’ hostility against Dupuit’s concept of surplus. The reasons for this hostility may be primarily psychological or ideological, not to mention Walras’ difficulty to understand the ideas of others.
François Etner
doaj   +1 more source

AI Alignment Versus AI Ethical Treatment: 10 Challenges

open access: yesAnalytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A morally acceptable course of AI development should avoid two dangers: creating unaligned AI systems that pose a threat to humanity and mistreating AI systems that merit moral consideration in their own right. This paper argues these two dangers interact and that if we create AI systems that merit moral consideration, simultaneously avoiding ...
Adam Bradley, Bradford Saad
wiley   +1 more source

Extended paretian rules and relative utilitarianism [PDF]

open access: yes, 1995
This paper introduces the 'Extended Pareto' axiom on Social welfare functions and gives a characterization of the axiom when it is assumed that the Social Welfare Functions that satisfy it in a framework of preferences over lotteries also satisfy the ...
Dhillon, Amrita
core   +1 more source

Fittingness and Consequentialism

open access: yesRatio, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Some beliefs, positive and negative attitudes, and desires fit their objects. Others do not. This paper considers whether consequentialist ethics can plausibly be reconciled with the fittingness of beliefs, positive and negative attitudes, and desires.
Brad Hooker
wiley   +1 more source

Utilitarianism and unequal longevities : A remedy? [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper re-examines a counterintuitive corollary of utilitarianism under unequal longevities: the tendency to redistribute resources from short-lived towards long-lived agents, against any intuition of compensation.
LEROUX, Marie - Louise   +1 more
core   +3 more sources

Fixed-step anonymous overtaking and catching-up [PDF]

open access: yes
We investigate criteria for evaluating infinite utility streams that satisfy Fixed-step anonymity and includes some notion of overtaking or catching-up.
Geir B. Asheim, Kuntal Banerjee
core  

Decision Theory [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
A book chapter (about 4,000 words, plus references) on decision theory in moral philosophy, with particular attention to uses of decision theory in specifying the contents of moral principles (e.g., expected-value forms of act and rule utilitarianism ...
Brink   +12 more
core   +1 more source

Consequentialism and the ideal theory debate in political philosophy

open access: yes
Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Andreas T. Schmidt
wiley   +1 more source

Business Participation in Regulation: A Multifocal Perspective on Management Studies

open access: yesRegulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper conceptualizes how regulation is viewed in management studies in the context of business participation in regulation and explores its implications. We theorize six lenses through which management studies understand regulation: as competitive advantages, boundaries, forums, principles, systems, and cognitive frames.
Onna Malou van den Broek   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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