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Fred Feldman

Doing the Best We Can

An Essay in Informal Deontic Logic

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Several years ago I came across a marvelous little paper in which Hector-Neri Castaneda shows that standard versions of act utilitarian­ l ism are formally incoherent. I was intrigued by his argument. It had long seemed to me that I had a firm grasp on act utilitarianism. Indeed, it had often seemed to me that it was the clearest and most attractive of normative theories. Yet here was a simple and relatively uncontrover­ sial argument that showed, with only some trivial assumptions, that the doctrine is virtually unintelligible. The gist of Castaneda's argument is this: suppose we understand act utilitarianism to be the view that an act is ob… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-94-010-8531-1
  • EAN: 9789401085311
  • Produktnummer: 15471138
  • Verlag: Springer Netherlands
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
  • Seitenangabe: 264 S.
  • Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.5 cm x D1.4 cm 406 g
  • Auflage: Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1986
  • Abbildungen: Paperback
  • Gewicht: 406

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