Behaviour norms are considered for decision trees which allow both objective probabilities and uncertain states of the world with unknown probabilities. Terminal nodes have consequences in a given domain. Behaviour is required to be consistent in subtrees. Consequentialist behaviour, by definition, reveals a consequence choice function independent of the structure of the decision tree. It impli...

By allowing for the possibility that individuals recognize the intrinsic value of choice along with the instrumental value thereof, we suppose that individuals express extended preference orderings of the following type: Choosing an alternative x from an opportunity set A is better than choosing an alternative y from an opportunity set B. Within this framework, we identify a consequentialist an...

The two most significant approaches to redistricting to emerge in the last generation are both consequentialist. That is, they both urge authorities to design—and courts to evaluate—district plans on the basis of the plans’ likely electoral consequences. According to the partisan fairness approach, plans should treat the major parties symmetrically in terms of the conversion of votes to seats. ...

Abstract The new biotechnology raises expectations for modifying human behaviour through its use. This article focuses on the ethical analysis of not so remote possibility rehabilitating criminals by means neurotechnological techniques. is carried out from a synthetic position of, one hand, consequentialist conception what right and, other emphasis individual liberties. As result, firstly, appr...

There is significant tension between the value of the individual and society within clinical research. While various deontological theories have argued for the necessity of informed consent, these theories have been repudiated by consequentialism. It is my position that neither deontological nor consequentialist theories are entirely erroneous. While investigating both sides, I will highlight t...

Part one of this paper considers the question of property rights in general and asks how such rights can be justified, contrasting Consequentialist with other approaches and concludes that it is impossible to avoid a broadly Consequentialist approach. Part two considers the question of intellectual property (IP) and asks how property rights justifications apply to it. The basic economics if IP ...

Epidemiology is the study of the causes and distributions of diseases in human populations so that we may identify ways to prevent and control disease. Although this definition broadly serves us well, I suggest that in recent decades, our discipline’s robust interest in identifying causes has come at the expense of a more rigorous engagement with the second part of our vision for ourselves—the ...

Amartya Sen defends the capability approach (CA) and “discipline of consequential evaluation” which suggests that his CA is consistent with some form “consequentialism”. Yet prominent commentators suggest or imply Sen’s not “consequentialist”. The resulting confusion defused by showing whether CA, as a general normative perspective, “consequentialism” depends on how understood. If understood mo...

In a famous footnote in Anarchy, State, and Utopia, Robert Nozick wonders whether " a side-constraint view can be put in the form of the goal-without-side-constraint view " (Nozick 1974, 29). Put in more familiar terms, Nozick wants to know whether it is possible to represent side-constraints in a broadly consequentialist framework. For those who think that the arguments in favour of some sort ...