The Aggregate Utility Solution I

The chapter starts to describe a new solution to the problem of choosing for changing selves. It proposes that we should consider it as a judgement aggregation problem. In a judgement aggregation problem, a collective entity is required to aggregate the beliefs and values of the various entities that make it up before making a decision on the basis of those collective attitudes. In the Aggregate Utility Solution, the individual agent is the collective and the selves are the entities that make it up. The chapter asks, in particular: at what level should we aggregate the utilities of the selves to give the utilities of the individual agent? At the level of the preference orderings, or the valuation functions, or the credence and utility functions?

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