Evaluating actions by their outcomes
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Compassion is less altruistic than it seems
Equality is not non-instrumentally valuable.
Procrastinate is obligated to agree to review the paper
A balanced approach to cost-benefit models in risk research is preferable to extremes
A calculative utilitarianism could in principle dispense with spotting moral issues or difficulties
A cooperative equilibrium exists in finitely repeated prisoner's dilemmas for sufficiently memory-constrained players
A government's commitment to refusing negotiation with terrorists can reduce future terrorist attacks.
A lifeguard must choose which group to save solely on the basis of the greater balance of good over bad, without giving extra weight to the fact that one group contains the lifeguard's friend.
A lottery yielding either (0,0) or (1,1) with equal probability is even better than the lottery over (1,0) and (0,1)
A merely negligent killing does not breach an agent-relative obligation not to kill an innocent in execution of an intention to kill.
A mixture of pleasure and knowledge is preferable to either alone for the good life
A moderate moral theory must permit individuals to choose their own lesser good over a significantly greater good for others without this principle being reasonably rejectable
A morally compromised whistleblower can still undermine the act's effectiveness.
A necessary means to achieving normal human happiness is that others develop some of their capacities at some time.
A negotiator is permitted to misstate their bargaining position when they have good reason to believe their adversary is misstating their bargaining position
A non-maximizing duty of benevolence can be balanced with special obligations without contradiction.
A non-transitive value ordering cannot form the basis of a satisfactory answer to what one ought to choose
A perfect single-number hedonimeter measuring happiness with full precision may be impossible even in principle.
A person cannot conceive of their own flourishing without conceiving of others as sharing in that flourishing.
A philosopher reluctant to talk about 'man as he ought to be' is ill-suited to developing a normative ethics.
A player can benefit from having their own future options constrained by another player's commitment device.
A player should use a mixed strategy when no pure strategy maximizes the player's utility against all opponent strategies.
A principle assuring equal opportunity for welfare or advantage would support a universal access healthcare system that includes a broad range of preventive and treatment services.
A properly monist theory must have an account of the good that is satisfactorily unitary.
A proportional expansion in population size can turn a good population into a bad one (a version of the Absurd Conclusion)
A proposed solution that tacitly changes the payoffs assigned to players is not a genuine solution but a disguised way of changing the subject and evading the implications of best modeling practice.
A purely hedonistic account of the good is inadequate.
A rational player should eliminate a dominated action from her space of admissible acts.
A rescuer may cut the rope connecting themselves to a victim who is about to fall to their death, even though doing so accelerates the victim's death.
A researcher applying game theory to model a social situation should unearth subjects' utility functions by identifying their community membership and inferring utility functions from study of community representatives across a range of games.
knowledge
Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.
Utilitarianism
The view that an individual self-evidently ought to aim at the maximum balance of happiness for all sentient beings present and future, whatever the cost to herself; also called Universalistic Hedonism
consequentialism
The view that practices are judged solely by their consequences, such that a practice is wrong only if it has bad consequences on balance.
agent
The party in a principal-agent relationship who is instructed to produce the good or service on the principal's behalf — in the medical context, the doctor
Non-consequentialist theory
An ethical theory that judges actions based on something other than their outcomes—like following rules, duties, or virtues.
utility
Utility in the largest sense, grounded on the permanent interests of man as a progressive being — not mere immediate pleasure or preference satisfaction.
welfare
A subjective notion of well-being that is affected by multiple domains, not health alone.
well-being
An individual's well-being is identified with her preferences: an individual has greater well-being in state X than in state Y if and only if she prefers state X to state Y
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