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The Pursuit of Happiness: Philosophical and Psychological Foundations of Utility

Autor Louis Narens, Brian Skyrms
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 22 feb 2023
Utilitarianism began as a movement for social reform that changed the world, based on the ideal of maximizing pleasure and minimizing pain. There is a tendency to enter into debates for and against the ethical doctrine of Utilitarianism without a clear understanding of its basic concepts. The Pursuit of Happiness now offers a rigorous account of the foundations of Utilitarianism, and vividly sets out possible ways forward for its future development. To understand Utilitarianism, we must understand utility: how is it to be measured, and how the aggregate utility of a group can be understood. Louis Narens and Brian Skyrms, respectively a cognitive scientist and a philosopher, pursue these questions by adopting both formal and historical methods, examining theories of measuring utility from Jeremy Bentham, the founder of the Utilitarian movement, to the present day, taking in psychophysics, positivism, measurement theory, meaningfulness, neuropsychology, representation theorems, and the dynamics of formation of conventions. On this basis, Narens and Skyrms argue that a meaningful form of Utilitarianism that can coordinate action in social groups is possible through interpersonal comparison and the formation of conventions.
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ISBN-13: 9780198878728
ISBN-10: 0198878729
Pagini: 208
Dimensiuni: 137 x 215 x 11 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

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a beautiful example of the benefits of collaboration between scientists and philosophers . . . a novel approach to utilitarianism that they take to be scientifically feasible and which avoids some of the problems associated with the traditional views . . . readers will appreciate the rich and illuminating discussion of the utilitarian tradition from Bentham to the present.

Notă biografică

Louis Narens is Professor of Cognitive Science at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of Abstract Measurement Theory (MIT, 1985) and Introduction to the Theories of Measurement and Meaningfulness and the Use of Invariance in Science (Lawrence Erlbaum, 2007).Brian Skyrms is Distinguished Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science and Economics at the University of California, Irvine. His interests include the evolution of conventions, the social contract, inductive logic, decision theory, rational deliberation, the metaphysics of logical atomism, causality, and truth. He is the author of Signals: Evolution, Learning, and Information (OUP, 2010), From Zeno to Arbitrage: Essays on Quantity, Coherence, and Induction (OUP, 2012), and Social Dynamics (OUP, 2014).