This isn’t a post about careers, it’s about moral philosophy! I have been toying with a thought like this for years, but never had the wherewithal to coherently graph it. I’m glad and jealous that someone’s finally done it!
No-one ‘is a utilitarian’ or similar, we’re all just optimising for some function of at least two variables, at least one of which we can make a meaningful decision about. I genuinely think this sort of reasoning resolves a lot of problems posed by moral philosophers (eg the demandingness objection), not to mention helps map abstractions about moral philosophy to something a lot more like the real world.
This isn’t a post about careers, it’s about moral philosophy! I have been toying with a thought like this for years, but never had the wherewithal to coherently graph it. I’m glad and jealous that someone’s finally done it!
No-one ‘is a utilitarian’ or similar, we’re all just optimising for some function of at least two variables, at least one of which we can make a meaningful decision about. I genuinely think this sort of reasoning resolves a lot of problems posed by moral philosophers (eg the demandingness objection), not to mention helps map abstractions about moral philosophy to something a lot more like the real world.