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Morality and Rational Choice

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  • © 1993

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Authors:
  1. Jonathan Baron

    1. Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA

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Part of the book series: Theory and Decision Library A: (TDLA, volume 18)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction

    • Jonathan Baron
    Pages 1-14

  3. Morality and decision making

    • Jonathan Baron
    Pages 15-29

  4. The nature of goals

    • Jonathan Baron
    Pages 31-48

  5. Expected utility theory

    • Jonathan Baron
    Pages 49-73

  6. Decisions for others

    • Jonathan Baron
    Pages 75-86

  7. Self-other conflict

    • Jonathan Baron
    Pages 87-97

  8. Acts and omissions

    • Jonathan Baron
    Pages 99-120

  9. Utilitarian education

    • Jonathan Baron
    Pages 121-137

  10. Decision analysis and public policy

    • Jonathan Baron
    Pages 139-150

  11. Equity in social policy and liability

    • Jonathan Baron
    Pages 151-166

  12. The risk analysis debate

    • Jonathan Baron
    Pages 167-178

  13. Social decisions

    • Jonathan Baron
    Pages 179-189

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 191-207
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About this book

Public controversies - such as those about the distribution of goods between rich and poor, trade and population policies, allocation of medical resources, and the tradeoff between environment al protection and economic efficiency - often hinge on fundamental views about how we ought to make decisions tImt affect each other, that is, what principles we ought to follow. Efforts to find an acceptable public philosophy, a set of such principles on which people might agree, have foundered because of dis agreement among philosophers and others who are concerned with such issues. One view, which I shall develop and defend here, holds that decisions that affect others should be made according to an overall evaluation of the consequences of each option. This consequentialist view is opposed by a variety of alternatives, but many of the alternatives have in COlllmon a basis in moral intuition. To take a simple example, consequentialism holds that, other things equal, if we have decided that it is better to let a terminally ill patient die than to prolong her agony by keeping her alive, then we ought to kill her.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA

    Jonathan Baron

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Morality and Rational Choice

  • Authors: Jonathan Baron

  • Series Title: Theory and Decision Library A:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8226-1

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 1993

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-2276-4Published: 31 May 1993

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-4270-5Published: 03 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-015-8226-1Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0921-3384

  • Series E-ISSN: 2352-2119

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 208

  • Topics: Philosophy, general, Ethics

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