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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 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. The key idea of the paper to explain the evolution from classical utilitarianism to preferences utilitarianism and towards post-welfarist approaches is the following.
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Hare's preference utilitarianism: an overview and critique
Trans/Form/Ação, 2013 My purpose in this paper is to summarize some aspects of utilitarianism and to provide a general overview of Hare's preference utilitarianism, followed by a critique of Hare's preference theory.
Mauro Cardoso Simões
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Teori Utilitarianisme Jeremy Bentham: Tujuan Hukum Atau Metode Pengujian Produk Hukum?
Jurnal Konstitusi, 2022 Utility as a legal purpose has become a belief in Indonesia. In his literature, Bentham implies that utility are the dimension of the calculation of pleasure and pain, which is more appropriate to be used as a method of evaluating laws and regulations ...
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Voices in Bioethics, 2020 The exigency and scarcity thrust on society by the emerging COVID-19 pandemic have produced novel interactions and tensions within normative ethical theory. Western ethics is occupied by the inherently incongruent frameworks of utilitarianism, deontology,
Samuel Dale
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Utilitarianism and Obviousness [PDF]
, 2004 This article seeks to diagnose a serious defect in a highly influential supposed counterexample to utilitarianism: Bernard Williams's case of Jim and the Indians.
Lenman, James
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Cosmopolitan Utilitarianism and the Problem of Local Inaction in a Globalized World
Glocalism: Journal of Culture, Politics and Innovation, 2015 This article explores the problem of the public acceptability of political inaction as an extreme consequence of cosmopolitan utilitarianism. The case of political inaction as the utility-maximizing public policy option emerges more clearly in the ...
Fausto Corvino
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The Relation of Rawls' A Theory of Justice to Hegel's Philosophy of Right [PDF]
حکمت و فلسفه, 2007 John Rawls has delineated his "A theory of Justice" fundamentally in contrast with the utilitarianism, because he thinks that utilitarianism is ready to sacrifice the freedom and justice for the common people's utility and happiness.
meysam sefid khosh, yousef shaghol
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Utilitarianism: its history and modern appearances
Studia Humanitatis, 2021 As a philosophy, utilitarianism seeks to affect the greatest amount of happiness for the largest number of people. Historically, utilitarianism has undergone numerous changes which have developed the path to this goal. In modern times, utilitarianism can
Beshenich Caroline
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Statistical Utilitarianism [PDF]
, 2016 Given a sufficiently large population satisfying certain statistical regularities, we show that it is often possible to accurately estimate the utilitarian social welfare function and identify the welfare-maximizing social alternative, even if we only have very noisy data about individual utility functions and interpersonal utility comparisons, and ...
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