...Kevin Dorst Ahlstrom-Vij Kristoffer and Dunn Jeffrey , eds., Epistemic Consequentialism . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2018 . vii + 335 pp. © 2020 by Cornell University 2020 Epistemic consequentialism is the view that (at least some) features of epistemic...

...Jeffrey Brand Hurley Paul , Beyond Consequentialism . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2009 . viii + 275 pp. © 2013 by Cornell University 2013 The most familiar objections to consequentialism claim that the theory gives counterintuitive answers to certain moral questions...

..., there is a familiar objection. He would be “consequentializing”—the good expands to cover anything one ought to aim at, so there are no considerations other than the amount of good. But this simply relocates the debate between (traditional) consequentialists and their opponents. And Sidgwick himself seems to deny...

...Daniel Jacobson This essay argues, flouting paradox, that Mill was a utilitarian but not a consequentialist. First, it contends that there is logical space for a view that deserves to be called utilitarian despite its rejection of consequentialism; second, that this logical space is, in fact...

...Stephen Darwall Derek Parfit's Reasons and Persons (1984) mounted a striking defense of Act Consequentialism against a Rawls-inspired Kantian orthodoxy in moral philosophy. On What Matters (2011) is notable for its serious engagement with Kant's ethics and for its arguments in support...

...Kurt L. Sylvan Despite the recent backlash against epistemic consequentialism, an explicit systematic alternative has yet to emerge. This article articulates and defends a novel alternative, Epistemic Kantianism , which rests on a requirement of respect for the truth . Section 1 tackles some...

... the dilemma by contending that the best versions of both consequentialism and deontology entail that the principle of weak retributivism is inviolate. Now, one of the most prominent objections to consequentialism is that it could require punishing people known to be innocent...

... consequentialization deontic equivalence underdetermination choice theory The aim of this essay is to propose a new approach to the formal representation of moral theories. We show that any moral theory within a very large class can be represented in terms of two parameters: (i) a specification of which...

... Natural Religion orig. pub. in 1779] Jackson, Frank. 1991 . “Decision-Theoretic Consequentialism and the Nearest and Dearest Objection.” Ethics 101 : 461 -82. Jordan, Jeff, ed. 1994 . Gambling on God: Essays on Pascal's Wager . Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield. Kagan, Shelly, and Peter...

... book is to increase our knowledge of the details of the landscape in ethics. It achieves that laudable aim with great success. Reading (or rereading) Sobel's careful and compelling arguments will benefit anyone interested in normative reasons, welfare, or consequentialism. I suspect these arguments...

...- quentialism, which takes the promoting of agent-neutral values to be fun- damental. Pettit proceeds by rejecting all candidates other than conse- quentialism. He then defends consequentialism against the familiar criti- cisms that it justifies wrong actions, that it justifies right actions...

...-neutral reasons. Myers’s core idea about morality is that of fair cooperation in the promotion of the general good. Despite its consequentialist affinity, this approach is incompatible with act consequentialism, which applies its requirement of beneficence directly to each of us, not via a limiting...

... of act-consequentialism, and (if there's time) rule-consequentialism. On the deontological side, one studies various formulations of Kant's categorical imperative, Ross's theory of prima facie duties, and (if there's time) contractualism. The familiar refrain is that consequentialist theories define...

... belief rationally guides and constrains imagination. Section 7 discusses objections and the significance of this project and analyzes its relation to other questions in epistemology including epistemic consequentialism. The exploration/exploitation trade-off is a formal device grounded...

.... 1975 . Preference and Urgency. Journal of Philosophy 72 : 655 -69. ____. 1998 . What We Owe to Each Other . Cambridge.: Harvard University Press. ____. 2001 . Symposium on Amartya Sen's Philosophy: 3 — Sen and Consequentialism. Economics and Philosophy 17 : 39 -50. Sen, Amartya...

... to come up with examples of DISPUTED CLAIMS: that consequentialism is correct, that abortion is morally impermissible, that God exists, that some particular religion is broadly speaking true, that human activity is causing drastic climate change. Thus: FREQUENCY: There is widespread disagreement among...

... why they matter less, or exactly how much less they matter, that has apparently been left to the sequel. References Budolfson, Mark, and Dean Spears. 2020. “Public Policy, Consequentialism, the Environment, and Nonhuman Animals.” In The Oxford Handbook of Consequentialism, edited by Douglas...

...          122 Horsten, Leon , The Tarskian Turn: Deflationism and Axiomatic Truth reviewed by Shawn Standefer          144 Hurley, Paul , Beyond Consequentialism reviewed by Jeffrey Brand          657 James, Aaron , Fairness in Practice: A Social Contract for a Global Economy reviewed...

... consider and defend a fairly straightforward vari- ety of consequentialism; they are noteworthy because of the way in which they proceed, if not for the novelty of the theory they defend. The much-discussed paper “Alienation, Consequentialism, and the Demands of Morality” responds to the complaint...

... to questions in normative ethics. Two of the essays here consider and defend a fairly straightforward vari- ety of consequentialism; they are noteworthy because of the way in which they proceed, if not for the novelty of the theory they defend. The much-discussed paper “Alienation, Consequentialism...