Impartial evaluation under ambiguity
Bradley, R.
(2022).
Impartial evaluation under ambiguity.
Ethics,
132(3), 541 - 569.
https://doi.org/10.1086/718081
How should an impartial social observer judge distributions of well-being across different individuals when there is uncertainty regarding the state of the world? I explore this question by imposing very weak conditions of rationality and benevolent sympathy on impartial betterness judgments under uncertainty. Although weak enough to be consistent with all the main theories of rationality, these conditions prove to be sufficient to rule out any heterogeneity in what is good for individuals, to require a neutral attitude to uncertainty on the part of the social observer, and to require that both individual and social betterness be strongly separable.
| Item Type | Article |
|---|---|
| Copyright holders | © 2022 The University of Chicago. All rights reserved. |
| Departments | LSE > Academic Departments > Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method |
| DOI | 10.1086/718081 |
| Date Deposited | 06 Apr 2022 |
| Acceptance Date | 18 Jan 2022 |
| URI | https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/114604 |
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