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To paraphrase one of my childhood serials, can a Utilitarian from a small cloistered discipline find happiness on a review board of worldly research scientists? Wayne Sumner thinks that he can; I have my doubts.1
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Ruddick, W. (1988). Utilitarians Among the Optimists. In: Brody, B.A. (eds) Moral Theory and Moral Judgments in Medical Ethics. Philosophy and Medicine, vol 32. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2715-5_3
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