This provocative, lucidly written reconstruction of utilitarianism focuses on the practical constraints involved in ethical choice: information may be inadequate, and understanding of causes and effects may be limited. Good decision making may be especially constrained if other people are closely involved in determining an outcome. Hardin demonstrates that many of these structural issues can and should be distinguished from the thornier problems of utilitarian value theory, and he is able to show what kinds of moral conclusions we can reach within the limits of reason.
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Russell Hardin is the Mellon Foundation Professor of Political Science, Philosophy, and Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago.
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One of the first lessons of any serious attention to the problem of rationality is that a complete account of everything involved in one's significant decisions is not possible. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
dyadic rights, pure conflict interactions, value theory assumptions, utilitarian value theory, substantive intuitions, institutional utilitarianism, coordination promise, game theoretic representation, utilitarian program, welfare justification, dyadic contracts, consequentialist moral theory, identification view, liberal paradox, strategic structures, pure coordination, interpersonal comparisons, paternalistic actions, welfare theory, strategic categories, dyadic exchanges, subsistence rights, hoc interventions Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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dyadic rights, pure conflict interactions, value theory assumptions, utilitarian value theory, substantive intuitions, institutional utilitarianism, coordination promise, game theoretic representation, utilitarian program, welfare justification, dyadic contracts, consequentialist moral theory, identification view, liberal paradox, strategic structures, pure coordination, interpersonal comparisons, paternalistic actions, welfare theory, strategic categories, dyadic exchanges, subsistence rights, hoc interventions Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Prisoner's Dilemma, Clarendon Press, Harvard University Press, Russell Hardin, Amartya Sen, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Adam Smith, John Rawls, William James, Gerald Dworkin, Principia Ethica, United States, Bernard Williams, Joel Feinberg, John Stuart Mill, Alexander Hamilton, Journal of Philosophy, Principles of Political Economy, Social Science Information, Brian Barry, Collected Works, David Lyons, Manual of Political Economy New!
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