Weighing Goods: Equality, Uncertainty and TimeJohn Wiley & Sons, 5 juil. 2017 - 268 pages This study uses techniques from economics to illuminate fundamental questions in ethics, particularly in the foundations of utilitarianism. Topics considered include the nature of teleological ethics, the foundations of decision theory, the value of equality and the moral significance of a person's continuing identity through time. |
Table des matières
Introduction II Weighing Goods | |
Notes | |
The Separability Theorems | |
Expected Utility and Rationality | |
List of Tables | |
The Coherence of Good | |
Coherence Against the Pareto Principle | |
The Principle of Personal Good | |
Table 3 | |
Equality | |
Table 7 | |
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aggregation Allais’s alternatives argue argument axioms Bernoulli’s hypothesis cardinal utility Chapter claims coherent communal egalitarianism concave function conclusion consistent defence defined democratic depends Derek Parfit determined Diamond’s dimension disanalogy disuniting metaphysics ethics ex-post example expectational utility function expected utility theory fairness favour formula function that represents give go sailing graph Harsanyi implies income increasing linear transform individual individualistic egalitarianism inequality instance interpersonal addition theorem judgements least means moderate communal nature nonteleological ordering outcomes Parfit people’s person’s betterness relation plausible preference relation principle of distribution principle of personal principle of temporal priority view probability agreement theorem probability-relative promise quantity rational preferences rational requirements Reasons and Persons relative risk neutrality Section self-interested social preferences sort stages structure subutility function Suppose sure-thing principle Table teleology traditional Pareto principle uncertainty utilitarian principle utility functions representing value of equality vector weighing welfare economics worse