utility

Giving Well: Oxfam versus BRAC

January 13, 2013

[caption id=”attachment_3097″ align=”alignright” width=”201″] “A Hindu Woman Giving Alms,” by Raja Ravi Varma[/caption] Daniel Levine has an interesting discussion of giving and giving well up today on whyiamwrongabouteverything : When I got a “real” job at USIP, back in 2007, I resolved that I was going to donate 10 percent of the portion of my…

The Teleological Paradox in Utilitarianism and Education

August 26, 2012

In my brief response to Community College Dean a few weeks back , I said something that I think is pretty obvious, but that is often ignored: humanities advocates spend so much time fighting the instrumental approach to education [because] you’ve got to pretend like time doesn’t matter, or else the education won’t work. Consider the…