Great website, but I've a couple of questions. Are there any plans to publish an ebook? How can I report typos and dead links? And are there any plans for articles about forgotten utilitarian thinkers like Spencer and Godwin?
Feb 13, 2023·edited Feb 13, 2023Liked by Richard Y Chappell
IMO the "resources-and-further-reading" and further reading section could benefit from more resources on the formal side. In addition to Broome's Weighing Goods, which is very long, still quite hard for a non-technical reader to understand, and not rigorous, I would suggest including the state of the art papers on his topic:
- Mongin and Pivato 2015 "Ranking multidimensional alternatives and uncertain prospects" JET
- Fleurbaey and Mongin 2016, "Utilitarian Relevance of the Aggregation Theorem" AEJ Micro
- McCarthy, Mikkola, Thomas 2020, "Utilitarianism with and without expected utility" J Math Econ
I believe these papers give the state of the art understanding of Harsanyi's two classic theorems on utilitarianism from the 1950s. I believe the first two papers above primarily concern the 1955 theorem, while McCarthy et al relates more to the 1953 though probably relates to both.
Other topics papers to consider referencing include
Campbell Brown's "Consequentialize This", Fleurbey's "Assessing Risky Social Situations", and possibly recent papers from infinite ethics.
Great website, but I've a couple of questions. Are there any plans to publish an ebook? How can I report typos and dead links? And are there any plans for articles about forgotten utilitarian thinkers like Spencer and Godwin?
IMO the "resources-and-further-reading" and further reading section could benefit from more resources on the formal side. In addition to Broome's Weighing Goods, which is very long, still quite hard for a non-technical reader to understand, and not rigorous, I would suggest including the state of the art papers on his topic:
- Mongin and Pivato 2015 "Ranking multidimensional alternatives and uncertain prospects" JET
- Fleurbaey and Mongin 2016, "Utilitarian Relevance of the Aggregation Theorem" AEJ Micro
- McCarthy, Mikkola, Thomas 2020, "Utilitarianism with and without expected utility" J Math Econ
I believe these papers give the state of the art understanding of Harsanyi's two classic theorems on utilitarianism from the 1950s. I believe the first two papers above primarily concern the 1955 theorem, while McCarthy et al relates more to the 1953 though probably relates to both.
Other topics papers to consider referencing include
Campbell Brown's "Consequentialize This", Fleurbey's "Assessing Risky Social Situations", and possibly recent papers from infinite ethics.
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