Utilitarianism : the aggregation question

Abstract

1. Aggregation within lives Larry S. Temkin 2. Utilitarian aggregation Russell Hardin 3. When, if ever, do we aggregate? And why? Jan Narveson 4. Two dogmas of deontology: aggregation, rights, and the separateness of persons Alastair Norcross 5. Is welfare an independent good? Talbot Brewer 6. Up and down with aggregation Brad Hooker 7. Aggregation, allocating scarce resources, and the disabled F. M. Kamm 8. Majorities against utility: implications of the failure of the miracle of aggregation Bryan Caplan 9. What is it like to be a group? Andrew I. Cohen 10. On the possibility of nonaggregative priority for the worst off Marc Fleurbaey, Bertil Tungodden and Peter Vallentyne 11. The interpretation of maximizing utilitarianism Jonathan Riley 12. Liberty, the higher pleasures, and Mill's missing science of ethnic jokes Elijah Millgram 13. Benefits, holism, and the aggregation of value David McNaughton and Piers Rawling.