What? More Better?

In Björn Haglund & Helge Malmgren (eds.), Kvantifikator för en Dag. Essays dedicated to Dag Westerståhl on his sixtieth birthday. Philosophical Communications (2006)
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Utilitarianism tells us to maximize the total amount of well-being in the world. I discuss whether there is a total amount of well-being in the world, given hedonist and preferentialist notions of well-being, respectively. My conclusion is that the prospects for preferentialism, in particular, are quite bleak.

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The Sum of Well-Being.Jacob M. Nebel - 2023 - Mind 132 (528):1074–1104.

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