Ethics and Values / Unit 4 Ethics 166 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Expected-Utility Reply
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The idea
The expected-utility reply: an act is judged by the outcomes a well-informed agent could reasonably expect, not by omniscience.
In practice
Medicine works this way already: a treatment is right on the evidence in hand, and a freak reaction does not convict the careful doctor.
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