Value Change, Energy Systems, and Rational Choice: The Expected Center of Gravity Principle.

Energy technology Ignalina Nuclear power Rational choice Value change Von Neumann and Morgenstern

Journal

Science and engineering ethics

ISSN: 1471-5546

Titre abrégé: Sci Eng Ethics

Pays: England

ID NLM: 9516228

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
19 04 2023

Historique:

received: 28 10 2021

accepted: 15 03 2023

medline: 21 4 2023

pubmed: 20 4 2023

entrez: 19 04 2023

Statut: epublish

Résumé

The values that will govern choices among future energy systems are unlikely to be the same as the values we embrace today. This paper discusses principles of rational choice for agents expecting future value shifts. How do we ought to reason if we believe that some values are likely to change in the future? Are future values more, equally, or less important than present ones? To answer this question, I propose and discuss the Expected Center of Gravity Principle, which articulates what I believe to be a reasonable compromise between present and future values.

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DOI: 10.1007/s11948-023-00436-2 PMID: 37076720

pubmed: 37076720

doi: 10.1007/s11948-023-00436-2

pii: 10.1007/s11948-023-00436-2

doi:

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Journal Article

Langues

eng

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