Preference utilitarianism (also known as preferentialism) is a form of utilitarianism in contemporary philosophy. Unlike value monist forms of utilitarianism...

unpleasantness. Negative Average Preference Utilitarianism makes the same assumptions on what is good as negative preference utilitarianism, but states that the average...

In ethical philosophy, utilitarianism is a family of normative ethical theories that prescribe actions that maximize happiness and well-being for the affected...

utilitarianism is sometimes thought to avoid the problems associated with act utilitarianism. Philosophy portal Brad Hooker Peter Singer Preference utilitarianism...

Average and total utilitarianism (also called averagism and totalism) are variants of utilitarianism that seek to maximize the average or total amount...

motives). There are similarities with preference utilitarianism, where utility is defined as individual preference rather than positive conscious experience...

negative utilitarianism, the teachings of Buddha, Stoicism, philosophical pessimism, and Schopenhauer's philosophy. In particular, negative preference utilitarianism...

of formal features of moral discourse, and for his defence of preference utilitarianism based on his prescriptivism. Some of Hare's students, such as...

well-being or welfare. Preference utilitarianism, which holds that the best action is the one that leads to the most overall preference satisfaction. Social...

was initially a proponent of preference utilitarianism but has shifted his position in favor of hedonistic utilitarianism. In a different sense, the term...

maximizing the satisfaction of preferences, hence preference utilitarianism. Other contemporary forms of utilitarianism mirror the forms of consequentialism...

Rule utilitarianism is a form of utilitarianism that says an action is right as it conforms to a rule that leads to the greatest good, or that "the rightness...

repugnant to his predecessors".[citation needed] He was a proponent of utilitarianism, an ethical theory developed by his predecessor Jeremy Bentham. He contributed...

relativism. In addition, the ethical philosophies of utilitarianism (especially preference utilitarianism) and pragmatism have been identified as employing...

particularly pp. 147–152. Nussbaum (2004), p. 302. For a discussion of preference utilitarianism, see Singer (2011), pp. 14ff, 94ff. Singer (1990), pp. 7–8. Singer...

of the preference theory with consequentialism is sometimes called "preference utilitarianism". Smart's arguments against rule utilitarianism have been...

from a preference utilitarian perspective, as does Singer. Preference utilitarianism defines an act as good insofar as it fulfills the preferences (interests)...

University University of California, Berkeley Bayesian game, Preference utilitarianism, Equilibrium selection John Forbes Nash (1928–2015)  United States...

utilitarian. She persuaded Singer to embrace hedonism instead of preference utilitarianism during their collaboration on The Point of View of the Universe...

English philosopher John Stuart Mill. It applied Mill's ethical system of utilitarianism to society and state. Mill suggested standards for the relationship...

This is an incomplete list of advocates of utilitarianism and/or consequentialism. Epicurus Lucretius Mozi Roger Bacon Richard Cumberland: 104–106  John...

philosopher, jurist, and social reformer regarded as the founder of modern utilitarianism. Bentham defined as the "fundamental axiom" of his philosophy the principle...

Another response is the conclusion that total utilitarianism must be rejected in favour of average utilitarianism, which would result in situation A+ being...

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of utilitarianism have developed, including the difference between act and rule utilitarianism and between maximizing and satisficing utilitarianism. Deontology...

ethics created by philosopher Robert Nozick in 1974 as a criticism of utilitarianism. A hypothetical being, which Nozick calls the utility monster, receives...

S2CID 154610036 Sobel, Joel (2001), "Manipulation of preferences and relative utilitarianism", Games and Economic Behavior, 37: 196–215, CiteSeerX 10...

English philosopher, developed universal prescriptivism and preference utilitarianism, in Backwell, England (d. 2002) The first regular international...

not only which of two outcomes is preferred, but also the intensity of preferences, i.e. how much better or worse one outcome is compared to another. In...

related, but not necessarily equivalent to, the utility of Bentham's utilitarianism. In the theorem, an individual agent is faced with options called lotteries...