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1 online resource |
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Includes index. |
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Aggregation is one of the fundamental features of utilitarianism and other forms of axiological theories, permitting the trade-off of morally relevant factors between different individuals. It is also a feature that critics of utilitarianism condemn. Yet the basic features of aggregation are not understood properly. This book elucidates the theoretical structure and scope of interpersonal and intra-personal aggregation in ethics and defends a form of aggregation, formal aggregation, as distinguished from substantive aggregation of utilitarianism. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Cover -- Acknowledgments -- CONTENTS -- Part One A Theory of Aggregation -- 1 Why Aggregation? -- 1.1 Aggregation in Ethics -- 1.2 Example I: QALY Aggregation -- 1.3 Example II: Taurek's Rescue Case -- 1.4 The Structure of This Book -- 2 The Structure of Aggregation -- 2.1 Aggregation Defined -- 2.2 What Is Aggregative and What Is Not? -- 2.3 The Structure of Interpersonal Aggregation -- 2.3.1 Interpersonal Comparability -- 2.3.2 Impartiality -- 2.3.3 Pareto -- 2.3.4 Continuity -- 3 Formal and Substantive Aggregation |
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3.1 Counterexample to Interpersonal Aggregation: The World Cup Case3.2 Hidden Assumptions -- 3.3 Substantive and Formal Aggregation -- 3.4 Formal Aggregation in Perspective -- 4 Aggregation and the Separateness of Persons -- 4.1 The Separateness of Persons: Rawls's Strict Account -- 4.2 The Wider Account -- 4.3 Defusing the Wider Account -- 4.4 The Separateness Objection and Contractarianism -- 4.5 Scanlon's Contractualism -- 5 Intra-Personal Aggregation -- 5.1 Who Supports Intra-Personal Aggregation? -- 5.2 The Structure of Intra-Personal Aggregation |
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5.3 The Objection to Intra-Personal Continuity5.4 The Objection to Temporal Symmetry -- Part Two The Number Problem -- 6 Taurek's Argument for the Coin-Toss -- 6.1 Taurek and the Rescue Case -- 6.2 Taurek (1): The Permissibility Claim -- 6.3 Taurek (2): The No-Worse Claim -- 6.4 Taurek (3): The Equal Respect Claim -- 6.5 Two Remarks on Taurek's Argument -- 6.6 Critics of Aggregation (1): Nozick -- 6.7 Critics of Aggregation (2): Rawls -- 6.8 Critics of Aggregation (3): Nagel -- 6.9 Three Solutions and Many Intuitions -- 7 Four Responses |
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""7.1 How to Deal with Taurek's Claim?""""7.2 Kavka on Taurek""; ""7.3 The Kamm�Scanlon Argument""; ""7.4 Kamm's Argument for Best Outcomes""; ""7.5 Schelling's Probabilistic Argument""; ""8 Irrelevant Utilities and Formal Aggregation""; ""8.1 The Principle of Irrelevant Utilities""; ""8.2 The Objection to the Principle of Irrelevant Utilities""; ""8.3 Taking Unfairness Seriously""; ""8.4 The Large-Scale Rescue Case Revisited""; ""8.5 The Force of Aggregation""; ""9 Weighted Lotteries""; ""9.1 The Third Proposal: Weighted Lotteries""; ""9.2 The Appeal of Weighted Lotteries"" |
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9.3 The Procedure of Proportional Chances: Two Criticisms9.4 The General Weighted Lotteries: Two-Step Criticism -- 9.5 An Additional Problem -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Ethics.
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Ethics. |
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Utilitarianism.
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Utilitarianism. |
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ethics (philosophy) |
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utilitarianism. |
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PHILOSOPHY -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy. |
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PHILOSOPHY -- Social. |
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Print version: 9780199933686 0199933685 (DLC) 2014006880 |
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0199933693 (electronic book) |
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9780199933693 (electronic book) |
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9780199933686 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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0199933685 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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