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    Challenges→Outcomes in expected-utility calculations must include every relevant consideration, not merely causal consequences

    The expected-utility principle requires that outcomes include every relevant consideration

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    One issue concerning outcomes is their comprehensiveness. Are an act’s outcomes possible worlds, temporal aftermaths, or causal consequences? Gibbard and Harper ([1978] 1981: 166–168) mention the possibility of narrowing outcomes to causal consequences, as practical applicability advocates. The narrowing must be judicious, however, because the expected-utility principle requires that outcomes include every relevant consideration. For example, if an agent is averse to risk, then each of a risky a

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