Question: Is there such a thing as mathematical ethics? I mean rigorous modelling of moral choices based on mathematical objects (lets call them virtue functions) and derivation of qualitative and/or quantitative properties of these objects based on standard math tools like derivates, order theory, statistics or whatever.

I'm asking because yesterday I had an interesting discussion about ethics which involed modelling subjective value judgements as a function. I'd like to relate this to possible existing work.

I did found these links:

• http://www.evolutionaryethics.com/chapter7.html (this seems to be more about analogy between math and ethics development)

• http://www.utilitarian.org/maths.html (this is mathematical, but seems to apply only to utiliarism)