埃奇沃斯对社会福利的数学化

IF 1.4 2区哲学 Q1 HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Pub Date : 2023-11-16 DOI:10.1016/j.shpsa.2023.11.003

Adrian K. Yee

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弗朗西斯·伊西德罗·埃奇沃斯(Francis Ysidro Edgeworth)被过分忽视的专著《伦理学的新旧方法》(1877年)在他19世纪同时代的功利主义传统中，对社会福祉进行了高度复杂和数学化的描述。这篇文章说明了他如何将“变分演算”的使用与经验心理学和经济理论的发现相结合，以构建一个结果主义的价值论框架。结论是，Edgeworth是几个重要的方法、思想和问题的方法论先驱，这些方法、思想和问题在当代社会福利研究中继续被讨论。

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Edgeworth's mathematization of social well-being

Francis Ysidro Edgeworth's unduly neglected monograph New and Old Methods of Ethics (1877) advances a highly sophisticated and mathematized account of social well-being in the utilitarian tradition of his 19th-century contemporaries. This article illustrates how his usage of the ‘calculus of variations’ was combined with findings from empirical psychology and economic theory to construct a consequentialist axiological framework. A conclusion is drawn that Edgeworth is a methodological predecessor to several important methods, ideas, and issues that continue to be discussed in contemporary social well-being studies.

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Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 管理科学-科学史与科学哲学

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2.50

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10.00%

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166

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6.6 weeks

期刊介绍： Studies in History and Philosophy of Science is devoted to the integrated study of the history, philosophy and sociology of the sciences. The editors encourage contributions both in the long-established areas of the history of the sciences and the philosophy of the sciences and in the topical areas of historiography of the sciences, the sciences in relation to gender, culture and society and the sciences in relation to arts. The Journal is international in scope and content and publishes papers from a wide range of countries and cultural traditions.