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Denying Services to Prevent Regret
Author(s) -
Gerver Mollie
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of applied philosophy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.339
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1468-5930
pISSN - 0264-3758
DOI - 10.1111/japp.12335
Subject(s) - regret , service (business) , agency (philosophy) , transformative learning , intervention (counseling) , refugee , psychology , social psychology , business , sociology , political science , law , marketing , computer science , psychiatry , social science , pedagogy , machine learning
Abstract 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.