Valuing humane lives in two-level utilitarianism

Valuing “ Lives Saved ” vs . “ Life - Years Saved ”

There is long-standing debate whether to count “lives saved” or “life-years saved” when evaluating policies to reduce mortality risk. Historically, the two approaches have been applied in different domains. Environmental and transportation policies have often been evaluated using lives saved, while life-years saved has been the preferred metric in other areas of public health including medicine...

Dominance Criteria for Critical-level Generalized Utilitarianism

“Dominance Criteria for Critical-Level Generalized Utilitarianism”

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General Valuing Different Human Lives

Living two lives

When I arrived at the Chalfont Centre in September 1969 I was frightened by the place. I did not understand what epilepsy was or why I needed to be there. I was told nothing about it at all. I had been diagnosed with the condition at the age of 14 before being sent to Chalfont. All I knewwas the name of what it was that I had: ‘epilepsy’. I was also scared because I thought I would be shouted a...

Multi-utilitarianism in two-agent quasilinear social choice

We introduce a new class of rules for resolving quasilinear social choice problems. These rules extend those of Green [6]. We call such rules multi-utilitarian rules. Each multi-utilitarian rule is associated with a probability measure over the set of weighted utilitarian rules, and is derived as the expectation of this probability. These rules are characterized by the axioms efficiency, transl...