Not to imply that you were implying otherwise, but I don’t think that the ‘evidence camp’ generally sees itself as maximising the minimum you achieve, or as disagreeing with maximising expected good. Instead it often disagrees with specific claims about what does the most good, particularly ones based on a certain sort of expected value calculation.
(In a way this only underscores your point that there isn’t that sharp a divide between the two approaches, and that we need to take into account all the evidence and reasons that we have. As you say, we often don’t have RCTs to settle things, leaving everyone with the tricky job of weighting different forms of evidence. There will be disagreements about that, but they won’t look like a sharp, binary division into two opposed ‘camps’. Describing what actually happens in medicine seems very helpful to understanding this.)
Not to imply that you were implying otherwise, but I don’t think that the ‘evidence camp’ generally sees itself as maximising the minimum you achieve, or as disagreeing with maximising expected good. Instead it often disagrees with specific claims about what does the most good, particularly ones based on a certain sort of expected value calculation.
(In a way this only underscores your point that there isn’t that sharp a divide between the two approaches, and that we need to take into account all the evidence and reasons that we have. As you say, we often don’t have RCTs to settle things, leaving everyone with the tricky job of weighting different forms of evidence. There will be disagreements about that, but they won’t look like a sharp, binary division into two opposed ‘camps’. Describing what actually happens in medicine seems very helpful to understanding this.)