Beyond Proximity: Consequentialist Ethics and System Dynamics

Consequentialist Decision Theory and Utilitarian Ethics

Suppose that a social behaviour norm specifies ethical decisions at all decision nodes of every finite decision tree whose terminal nodes have consequences in a given domain. Suppose too that behaviour is both consistent in subtrees and continuous as probabilities vary. Suppose that the social consequence domain consists of profiles of individual consequences defined broadly enough so that only...

What is the difference between deontological and consequentialist theories of medical ethics?

Casimir forces beyond the proximity approximation

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Protein structure alignment beyond spatial proximity

Protein structure alignment is a fundamental problem in computational structure biology. Many programs have been developed for automatic protein structure alignment, but most of them align two protein structures purely based upon geometric similarity without considering evolutionary and functional relationship. As such, these programs may generate structure alignments which are not very biologi...

Running Head: RELIGIOSITY AND CONSEQUENTIALIST MORAL THINKING Religiosity, Political Orientation, and Consequentialist Moral Thinking

Religiosity and Consequentialist Moral Thinking 2 Three studies demonstrated that the moral judgments of religious individuals and political conservatives are highly insensitive to consequentialist (i.e., outcome-based) considerations. In Study 1, both religiosity and political conservatism predicted a resistance towards consequentialist thinking concerning a range of transgressive acts, indepe...