expected utility maximization != utilitarianism.
Ok what's the difference here? By "utilitarianism" do you mean the old straw-man version of utilitarianism with bad utility function and no ethical injunctions?
I usually take utilitarianism to be consequentialism + max(E(U)) + sane human-value metaethics. Am I confused?
The term "utilitarianism" refers to maximising the combined happiness of all people. The page says:
Utilitarianism is an ethical theory holding that the proper course of action is the one that maximizes the overall "happiness".
So: that's a particular class of utility functions.
"Expected utility maximization" is a more general framework from decision theory. You can use any utility function with it - and you can use it to model practically any agent.
Utilitarianism is a pretty nutty personal moral philosophy, IMO. It is c...
...has finally been published.
Contents:
The issue consists of responses to Chalmers (2010). Future volumes will contain additional articles from Shulman & Bostrom, Igor Aleksander, Richard Brown, Ray Kurzweil, Pamela McCorduck, Chris Nunn, Arkady Plotnitsky, Jesse Prinz, Susan Schneider, Murray Shanahan, Burt Voorhees, and a response from Chalmers.
McDermott's chapter should be supplemented with this, which he says he didn't have space for in his JCS article.