Denying Services to Prevent Regret

Denying Services to Prevent Regret

Sometimes the majority of individuals accepting a service regret their decision, and we can predict that future recipients will feel similarly. For example, a hospital might learn that the majority of patients regret accepting a given medical intervention, and a UN agency might learn that most refug...

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Published in:Journal of applied philosophy Vol. 36; no. 3; pp. 471 - 490
Main Author: Gerver, Mollie
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Oxford Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01-07-2019
Subjects:
Cognition & reasoning
Epistemology
Services
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Summary:Sometimes the majority of individuals accepting a service regret their decision, and we can predict that future recipients will feel similarly. For example, a hospital might learn that the majority of patients regret accepting a given medical intervention, and a UN agency might learn that most refugees it has helped repatriate regret returning home. I argue that agents providing services that lead to likely regret have one pro tanto reason to discontinue their services, and this reason is weighty if the service is epistemically transformative.
ISSN:0264-3758
1468-5930
DOI:10.1111/japp.12335