tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post5764243130977006747..comments2024-03-28T13:23:50.623-05:00Comments on Alexander Pruss's Blog: Consequentialism and doing what is very likely wrongAlexander R Prusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05989277655934827117noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post-2807578872597934462014-01-31T15:03:05.053-06:002014-01-31T15:03:05.053-06:00It's an interesting thought experiment. My int...It's an interesting thought experiment. My intuitive response if my task was to defend act utilitarianism, would be to argue that a 'large numbers' approach to calculating the utility value of a situation where I only know the probabilities of different outcomes doesn't mean that I'm adopting a 'rule based' approach. Rather, it's merely one possible way to approach how probability factors into calculation of utility. To the extent that it's using a rule it's not using a rule about how one should act, but a rule in the same sense as the formula for calculating the surface are of a sphere.ockrazhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07681138753527454144noreply@blogger.com