“Dominance Criteria for Critical-Level Generalized Utilitarianism”

Harsanyi defends utilitarianism by means of an axiomatic proof and by what he calls the ‘equiprobability model’. Both justifications of utilitarianism aim to show that utilitarian ethics can be derived from Bayesian rationality and some weak moral constraints on the reasoning of rational agents. I argue that, from the perspective of Bayesian agents, one of these constraints, the impersonality c...

Abstract In the paper, I aim to reconstruct a charitable interpretation of Durkheimian utilitarianism, normative theory public morality proposed by well-recognised American moral psychologist – Jonathan Haidt, which might provide reasons justify particular legal regulations and policies. The reconstruction contains coherent that includes elements rule-utilitarianism, value pluralism, objective ...