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, 2022 Abstract This chapter explains the consequentialist approach to ethical analysis. It distinguishes act utilitarianism and rule utilitarianism. It also considers different possibilities as to which outcomes should be considered relevant for consequentialists. It considers a number of challenges and objections to consequentialist ethics.
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Is global consequentialism more expressive than act consequentialism?
Analysis, 2022 Act consequentialism states that an act is right if and only if the expected value of its outcome is at least as great as the expected value of any other act’s outcome. Two objections to this view are as follows.
Elliott Thornley
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A Defence of Epistemic Consequentialism
Philosophical Quarterly, 2014 Epistemic consequentialists maintain that the epistemically right (e.g., the justified) is to be understood in terms of conduciveness to the epistemic good (e.g., true belief). Given the wide variety of epistemological approaches that assume some form of
Kristoffer Ahlstrom-Vij, Jeffrey Dunn
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Consequentialism is a focal point of discussion and a driving force behind developments in moral philosophy. Recently, the debate has shifted in focus and in style: by seeking to consequentialize rival moral theories—in particular those with agent-relative characteristics—and by framing accounts in terms of reasons rather than in terms of value, an ...
David McNaughton, Piers Rawling
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Consequentialism is a focal point of discussion and a driving force behind developments in moral philosophy. Recently, the debate has shifted in focus and in style: by seeking to consequentialize rival moral theories—in particular those with agent-relative characteristics—and by framing accounts in terms of reasons rather than in terms of value, an ...
David McNaughton, Piers Rawling
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The Consequentializing Argument Against…Consequentializing?
2022Abstract Consequentializing involves both a strategy and conditions for its successful implementation. The strategy takes the features a target theory holds to be relevant to deontic evaluation of actions, and builds them into a counterpart ranking of outcomes.
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The “Consequentialism” in “Epistemic Consequentialism”
2018Driver compares ethical and epistemic consequentialism in order to get clearer on the latter’s view on the relationship between the epistemic right and the epistemic good. She notes that the process reliabilist is a kind of epistemic consequentialist that is able to avoid a number of objections to consequentialism adapted from the ethical literature ...
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Consequentialism and non-consequentialism
2018In the academic field of business ethics, few would claim to be consequentialists, and, in fact, most find consequentialism in tension with ethics not a source of it, in part because consequentialism is often associated with a focus on either happiness or utility—oftentimes economic—rather than ethical values.
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