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Utilitarian Philosopher

About Jane Inglehart

In 2019, Jane Inglehart co-authored the 'Wellbeing Infrastructure Framework', a policy architecture adopted by three municipal governments to replace cost-benefit analysis with real-time, community-weighted utility metrics in housing and transit decisions. She doesn’t treat happiness as a proxy; she treats it as infrastructure, measurable, maintainable, and subject to democratic calibration. Her work rejects abstract aggregation, insisting instead on granular, temporally sensitive utility mapping: how a bus route’s redesign affects not just average commute time, but sleep debt for night-shift nurses, childcare access for single parents, and air quality exposure for asthma-prone children in specific census tracts. She’s been called ‘the anti-theodicy utilitarian’ for refusing to justify suffering as necessary for greater good, instead demanding that every trade-off be publicly modeled, contested, and iterated. Her lectures avoid trolley problems; they open with municipal budget spreadsheets and anonymized public comment transcripts.

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What is the Wellbeing Infrastructure Framework?
It’s a policy design methodology that replaces static utility assumptions with layered, real-time indicators, sleep equity, care labor distribution, environmental exposure gradients, mapped across demographic cohorts. Each indicator is assigned adaptive weight based on participatory deliberation, not expert consensus. The framework has been piloted in Portland, Lisbon, and Medellín since 2021.
Does Inglehart reject classical utilitarianism?
She retains Bentham’s core calculus but overhauls its inputs: no fixed hedonic units, no stable preference rankings. Instead, she treats utility as context-embedded, temporally non-additive, and institutionally scaffolded, e.g. trust in local government isn’t a preference but a prerequisite for accurate utility reporting.
Why does she avoid thought experiments like the trolley problem?
She argues they train moral intuition on artificial scarcity while ignoring real-world abundance of policy levers, zoning codes, procurement rules, data governance, that shape utility distributions long before crisis points arise.
Has her work influenced any national legislation?
Her utility-weighting protocols informed the EU’s 2023 Social Investment Index, though she publicly criticized its exclusion of intergenerational discounting adjustments. She continues advising the UN’s SDG localization task force on non-monetary utility measurement.
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public policyethicspractical utilitarianism

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