Fred Feldman

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Doing the Best We Can: An Essay in Informal Deontic Logic (1986)Hardcover - 1986, 30 April 1986

Doing the Best We Can: An Essay in Informal Deontic Logic (1986)
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Part of Series
Philosophical Studies
Part of Series
Philosophical Studies Series
Part of Series
Philosophical Studies Series in Philosophy
Print Length
246 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Springer
Date Published
30 Apr 1986
ISBN-10
9027721645
ISBN-13
9789027721648

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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 obligatory if and only if its utility exceeds that of each alternative. Suppose it is obligatory for a certain person to perform an act with two parts - we can call it 'A & B'. Then, obviously enough, it is also obligatory for this person to perform the parts, A and B. If act utilitarianism were true, we appar- ently could infer that the utility of A & B is higher than that of A, and higher than that of B (because A & B is obligatory, and the other acts are alternatives to A & B).

Product Details

Author:
Fred Feldman
Book Edition:
1986
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
30 April 1986
Dimensions:
24.33 x 16.61 x 2.03 cm
ISBN-10:
9027721645
ISBN-13:
9789027721648
Language:
English
Location:
Dordrecht
Pages:
246
Publisher:
Weight:
562.45 gm

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