The Dimensions of Consequentialism (inbunden)
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Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
228
Utgivningsdatum
2013-03-28
Förlag
Cambridge University Press
Illustrationer
2 b/w illus. 13 tables
Dimensioner
231 x 155 x 20 mm
Vikt
481 g
Antal komponenter
1
Komponenter
14:B&W 6 x 9 in or 229 x 152 mm Case Laminate on White w/Gloss Lam
ISBN
9781107033030

The Dimensions of Consequentialism

Ethics, Equality and Risk

av Martin Peterson
Inbunden,  Engelska, 2013-03-28
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Consequentialism, one of the major theories of normative ethics, maintains that the moral rightness of an act is determined solely by the act's consequences. The traditional form of consequentialism is one-dimensional, in that the rightness of an act is a function of a single moral aspect, such as the sum total of wellbeing it produces. In this book Martin Peterson introduces a new type of consequentialist theory: multidimensional consequentialism. According to this theory, an act's moral rightness depends on several separate dimensions, including individual wellbeing, equality and risk. Peterson's novel approach shows that moral views about equality and risk that were previously thought to be mutually incompatible can be rendered compatible, and his precise theoretical discussion helps the reader to understand better the distinction between consequentialist and non-consequentialist theories. His book will interest a wide range of readers in ethics.
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'... full of mathematical proofs and engages with related literature and selected intuitions ...' S. E. Forschler, Choice

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Martin Peterson is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands. He is author of Non-Bayesian Decision Theory (2008) and An Introduction to Decision Theory (Cambridge, 2009).

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Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Degrees of rightness; 3. First dimension: persons; 4. Second dimension: equality; 5. Third dimension: risk; 6. Multidimensional decision making; 7. The best one-dimensional theory; 8. The limits of consequentialism; Appendix: multidimensional deontic logic.

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