Consequentialism And Its Critics
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Author | : Samuel Scheffler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Consequentialism (Ethics) |
ISBN | : 0198750730 |
This volume presents papers discussing arguments on both sides of the consequentialist debate. The distinguished contributors include John Rawls, Bernard Williams, Thomas Nagel, Derek Parfit, among others.
Author | : Christian Seidel |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 019027011X |
Consequentialism is a focal point of moral philosophy. Recently, new wave consequentialists have presented theories which proved extremely flexible and powerful in meeting influential objections. The volume explores new directions within this project, raises fundamental problems for it, and gives a balanced assessment of its scope in commonsense moral practice.
Author | : Joram Graf Haber |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9780847678402 |
Is the judicial execution of the innocent permissible to deter crime? Some advocates of consequentialism would respond yes, while moral absolutists argue that certain kinds of conduct, including this one, are absolutely prohibited, no matter what the consequences. This is the first collection that does justice to absolutism in its richness and subtleties.
Author | : Douglas W. Portmore |
Publisher | : OUP USA |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2011-11-02 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0199794537 |
This is a book about morality, rationality, and the interconnections between the two. In it, Portmore defends a version of consequentialism that both comports with our commonsense moral intuitions and shares with consequentialist theories the same compelling teleological conception of practical reasons.
Author | : Jonathan Glover |
Publisher | : Macmillan College |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Martin Peterson |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 2013-03-28 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1107033039 |
This book introduces a new, multidimensional consequentialist theory, according to which an act's rightness depends on several irreducible dimensions.
Author | : Julia Driver |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 185 |
Release | : 2011-11-16 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1136514511 |
Consequentialism is the view that the rightness or wrongness of actions depend solely on their consequences. It is one of the most influential, and controversial, of all ethical theories. In this book, Julia Driver introduces and critically assesses consequentialism in all its forms. After a brief historical introduction to the problem, Driver examines utilitarianism, and the arguments of its most famous exponents, John Stuart Mill and Jeremy Bentham, and explains the fundamental questions underlying utilitarian theory: what value is to be specified and how it is to be maximized. Driver also discusses indirect forms of consequentialism, the important theories of motive consequentialism and virtue consequentialism, and explains why the distinction between subjective and objective consequentialism is so important. Including helpful features such as a glossary, chapter summaries, and annotated further reading at the end of each chapter, Consequentialism is ideal for students seeking an authoritative and clearly explained survey of this important problem.
Author | : Derek Parfit |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 529 |
Release | : 2017-02-09 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0191084379 |
Derek Parfit presents the third volume of On What Matters, his landmark work of moral philosophy. Parfit develops further his influential treatment of reasons, normativity, the meaning of moral discourse, and the status of morality. He engages with his critics, and shows the way to resolution of their differences. This volume is partly about what it is for things to matter, in the sense that we all have reasons to care about these things. Much of the book discusses three of the main kinds of meta-ethical theory: Normative Naturalism, Quasi-Realist Expressivism, and Non-Metaphysical Non-Naturalism, which Derek Parfit now calls Non-Realist Cognitivism. This third theory claims that, if we use the word 'reality' in an ontologically weighty sense, irreducibly normative truths have no mysterious or incredible ontological implications. If instead we use 'reality' in a wide sense, according to which all truths are truths about reality, this theory claims that some non-empirically discoverable truths-such as logical, mathematical, modal, and some normative truths-raise no difficult ontological questions. Parfit discusses these theories partly by commenting on the views of some of the contributors to Peter Singer's collection Does Anything Really Matter? Parfit on Objectivity. Though Peter Railton is a Naturalist, he has widened his view by accepting some further claims, and he has suggested that this wider version of Naturalism could be combined with Non-Realist Cognitivism. Parfit argues that Railton is right, since these theories no longer deeply disagree. Though Allan Gibbard is a Quasi-Realist Expressivist, he has suggested that the best version of his view could be combined with Non-Realist Cognitivism. Parfit argues that Gibbard is right, since Gibbard and he now accept the other's main meta-ethical claim. It is rare for three such different philosophical theories to be able to be widened in ways that resolve their deepest disagreements. This happy convergence supports the view that these meta-ethical theories are true. Parfit also discusses the views of several other philosophers, and some other meta-ethical and normative questions.
Author | : Christopher Woodard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0198732627 |
Christopher Woodard presents a new and rich version of utilitarianism, the idea that ethics is ultimately about what makes people's lives go better. He launches a state-of-the-art defence of the theory, often seen as excessively simple, and shows that it can account for much of the complexity and nuance of everyday ethical thought.
Author | : Paul E. Hurley |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0199559309 |
Paul Hurley sets out a radical challenge to consequentialism, the theory which might seem to be the default option in contemporary moral philosophy. There is an unresolved tension within the theory: if consequentialists are right about the content of morality, then morality cannot have the rational authority that even they take it to have.