Research Catalog

Title

Utilitarianism : the aggregation question / edited by Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred D. Miller, Jr., and Jeffrey Paul.

Publication

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Paul, Ellen Frankel
• Miller, Fred Dycus, 1944-
• Paul, Jeffrey

Description

xvi, 383 p.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Utilitarianism
• Ethics

Note

• The essays of this book have also been published in the semiannual journal, Social philosophy & policy, volume 26, number 1.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Aggregation within lives / Larry S. Temkin -- Utilitarian aggregation / Russell Hardin -- When, if ever, do we aggregate and why? / Jan Narveson -- Two dogmas of deontology : aggregation, rights, and the separateness of persons / Alastair Norcross -- Is welfare an independent good? / Talbot Brewer -- Up and down with aggregation / Brad Hooker -- Aggregation, allocating scarce resources, and the disabled / F.M. Kamm -- Majorities against utility : implications of the failure of the miracle of aggregation / Bryan Caplan -- What is it like to be a group? / David Sosa -- Contractarianism and interspecies welfare conflicts / Andrew I. Cohen -- On the possibility of nonaggregative priority for the worst off / Marc Fleurbaey, Bertil Tungodden, and Peter Vallentyne -- The interpretation of maximizing utilitarianism / Jonathan Riley -- Liberty, the higher pleasures, and Mill's missing science of ethnic jokes / Elijah Millgram -- Benefits, holism, and the aggregation of value / David McNaughton and Piers Rawling.

ISBN

9780521756327 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2008044763

OCLC

• 270129743
• SCSB-10765821

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library