Week 5: The aggregation of harms and benefits

Key readings

• Alastair Norcross, Comparing harms, Philosophy & Public Affairs, vol. 26, no 2 (April, 1997), pp. 135-167.
• Erik Carlson, Aggregating harms, Theoria, vol. 66, no. 3 (December, 2000), pp. 246-255.

Further reading

• Dale Dorsey, Headaches, lives and value, Utilitas, vol. 21, no. 1 (March, 2009), pp. 36-58.
• Iwao Hirose, Aggregation and the separateness of persons, Utilitas, vol. 25, no. 2 (June, 2013), pp. 182-205.
• Frances Kamm, Aggregation and two moral methods, Utilitas, vol. 17, no. 1(March, 2005), pp. 1-23.
• Alastair Norcross, Great harms from small benefits grow: how death can be outweighed by headaches, Analysis, vol. 58, no. 2 (April, 1998), pp. 152-158.