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Explicit Methodologies for Normative Evaluation in Public Policy, as Applied to Carbon Budgets

Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT What could philosophical or justice perspectives contribute to climate (and other applied philosophy) policy discussions? This question is important for philosophers on government policy committees. This article identifies two novel concerns about such contexts (which I call ‘contingent selection’ and ‘committee deference’) and systematizes ...
Kian Mintz‐Woo
wiley   +1 more source

Mill’s Moral Standard [PDF]

, 2016
A book chapter (about 7,000 words, plus references) on the interpretation of Mill’s criterion of right and wrong, with particular attention to act utilitarianism, rule utilitarianism, and sanction utilitarianism.
Eggleston, Ben
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Taking Risks Behind the Veil of Ignorance [PDF]

, 2017
A natural view in distributive ethics is that everyone's interests matter, but the interests of the relatively worse off matter more than the interests of the relatively better off. I provide a new argument for this view.
Lara, Buchak
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Sustainability and Discounted Utilitarianism in Models of Economic Growth [PDF]

Discounted utilitarianism treats generations unequally and leads to seemingly unappealing consequences in some models of economic growth. Instead, this paper presents and applies sustainable discounted utilitarianism (SDU).
Geir B. Asheim, Tapan Mitra
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Utility and Justice: French Liberal Economists in the 19th Century. [PDF]

French liberal economists share a very surprising reading of Bentham's theory. In this paper, we underline the method according to which these French liberal economists in the nineteenth century economists understand Bentham's utilitarianism: they ...
Nathalie Sigot
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Ethical and Scientific Pitfalls Concerning Laboratory Research with Non-Human Primates, and Possible Solutions

Animals, 2018
Basic and applied laboratory research, whenever intrusive or invasive, presents substantial ethical challenges for ethical committees, be it with human beings or with non-human animals.
Constança Carvalho, Augusta Gaspar, Andrew Knight, Luís Vicente   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Bentham's Utilitarianism Ethical Theory and Its Application in the Triage System: A Scholarly Philosophical Paper

Jordan Journal of Nursing Research
Background: Jeremy Bentham introduced Utilitarianism which is one of the normative ethical theories that imposes procedures that maximize happiness and well-being for all intended individuals.
Basheer Al-Zu'bi, Amal Ababneh, Fourat Altarawneh, Nour Alrida   +3 more
doaj  

Constructing Eco‐Responsible National Identities Through Collective Memory: Settler and Māori Histories of Environmental Change in Aotearoa New Zealand

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A growing body of scholarship argues that collective memories of historical environmental change—formed and transmitted through museums, movies, novels, activist performances and other cultural texts and practices—can help nurture proenvironmentalism.
Olli Hellmann
wiley   +1 more source

Malthus’s war on poverty as moral reform [PDF]

, 2013
The paper aims at finding a way out of deadlocks in Malthus scholarship concerning his relationship to utilitarianism. The main claim is that Malthus viewed his own population theory and political economy as Hifsdisziplinen to moral and political ...
Cremaschi, Sergio Volodia Marcello
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Shaw, William H [PDF]

, 2021
Stanford University, Philosophy, 1970, A.B. London School of Economics and Political Science, Politics, 1976, Ph.D.https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/erfa_bios/1269/thumbnail ...
San Jose State University
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