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Utilitarian Distortion with Predictions
Proceedings of the 26th ACM Conference on Economics and ComputationWe study the utilitarian distortion of social choice mechanisms under the recently proposed learning-augmented framework where some (possibly unreliable) predicted information about the preferences of the agents is given as input. In particular, we consider two fundamental social choice problems: single-winner voting and one-sided matching.
Aris Filos-Ratsikas +2 more
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M. E. Grant Duff, Philosophic Liberalism and the Global Liberal Cause
History, Volume 111, Issue 396, Page 347-368, June 2026.Abstract Historians disagree about how best to conceptualize nineteenth‐century British Liberalism in relation to its international contexts. This article argues that we can better understand the patterns involved by interrogating individuals who bridged the worlds of partisan politics and elaborated thought.
Alex Middleton
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Synderesis vs. Consequentialism and Utilitarianism in Workplace Bullying Prevention
Social InclusionThe existence of workplace bullying in modern organizations is, first of all, a serious moral challenge. Since bullying characterized by intense and long‐lasting persecution of the target causes serious negative consequences for organizations, there are ...
Jolita Vveinhardt, Mykolas Deikus
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Why Death Is Most in One's Self‐Interest, and Necessarily So
Bioethics, Volume 40, Issue 5, Page 499-504, June 2026.ABSTRACT Most of us think that death is usually not in the self‐interest of the one who dies. Let us momentarily put this belief aside and examine death in a new light. This paper presents a two‐step argument to show why death is most in one's self‐interest, necessarily.
Victor Kriska
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Assessing Risk Thresholds in Controlled Human Infection Models (CHIM)
Bioethics, Volume 40, Issue 5, Page 519-529, June 2026.ABSTRACT Controlled Human Infection Models (CHIMs) are a type of clinical trial involving deliberately exposing human volunteers to an infectious agent. Compared to studies of natural infection, CHIMs offers distinctive benefits, from the ability to study presymptomatic infection to a direct assessment of the efficacy of vaccines and therapeutics in a ...
Alexa Nord‐Bronzyk +4 more
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The Meaning of Obedience in a Time of Authoritarianism: Ethics of Care in and beyond the Military
Dialog, Volume 65, Issue 2, Page 84-89, Summer 2026.ABSTRACT In my book, On Obedience, Contrasting Philosophies for Military, Community and Citizenry, I anticipated emerging and different problems of authority and the nature/character of obedience in military and civic cultures. My anticipations proved to be correct, and more urgent questions have emerged.
Pauline Shanks Kaurin
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Moral Psychology and Utilitarianism
According to utilitarianism, we should improve the lives of humans and other sentient beings as much as possible. As an abstract ideal, utilitarianism has a natural appeal and may even sound like simple common sense.
Joshua D. Greene, Lucius Caviola
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The Ethics of Authoritarianism in Christian Perspective
Dialog, Volume 65, Issue 2, Page 76-83, Summer 2026.ABSTRACT We look here at the characteristics of authoritarian government in the context of constitutional democracies and argue that its operative ethical system in public policy is egoism, with its supporters constituting a collective ego complicit in the undemocratic and Machiavellian practices used to sustain power and the authority of leadership to
James M. Childs
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Native and Non‐Native Populations Respond Unevenly to River Barrier Removals
Global Change Biology, Volume 32, Issue 6, June 2026.While barrier removals restore river connectivity and promote recovery of native populations, they may also facilitate non‐native species, creating a ‘connectivity conundrum’. Using a systematic review and meta‐analysis, we show that both native and non‐native populations can benefit from barrier removal, with outcomes being context‐dependent ...
Ellen J. Dolan +7 more
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A Utilitarian Islamic Jurist: al-Shāṭibī
ReligionsUtilitarianism is a theory of morality and law that aims for the greatest happiness of the greatest number of people. The two names that come to mind when utilitarianism is mentioned in Western thought are Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill, the ...
Metin Aydın, Feyza Cevherli
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