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Bryan W. Roberts (LSE)
Wednesday 12 February 2020, 13:00-14:30
The good news about killing people
- đ¤ Speaker: Bryan W. Roberts (LSE)
- đ Date & Time: Wednesday 12 February 2020, 13:00 - 14:30
- đ Venue: Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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Abstract
Modern economics has designed a body of theory for how to make decisions involving irreversible outcomes. Motivated by this theory, we propose a ‘Good News Principle’ for the decision to kill one’s self or others, which states that such a decision depends on the quantity and probability of future good news (supporting not killing), but not of future bad news (supporting killing). We then derive this principle as a theorem of a simple consequentialist model for irreversible acts.
Series This talk is part of the CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar series.
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