Mutualism provides a compelling account of the fairness intuitions on display in economic games. However, it is not yet clear how well the approach holds up as an explanation of all human morality. The theory needs to be tested outside the methodological neighborhood it was born in; such testing has the potential to greatly improve our understanding of morality in general.

Unlike bioethicists who contend that there is a morality common to all, H. Tristan Engelhardt (1996) argues that, in a pluralistic secular society, any morality that does exist is loosely connected, lacks substantive moral content, is based on the principle of permission and, thus, is a morality between moral strangers. This, says Engelhardt, stands in contrast to a substance-full morality that...

This research focuses on the intelligent allocation of bandwidth to requests in oversubscribed preemptive networks such that some measure of collective worth associated with the satisfied requests is optimized. A class and priority based mechanism is described for grouping requests such that all requests belonging to a higher class are processed before any request(s) of a lower class are consid...