The Cambridge Companion to Utilitarianism

Herausgeber: Eggleston, Ben; Miller, Dale E.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Provides a fresh approach to the subjects, integrating classical thermodynamics and statistical mechanics to give students a solid understanding of the fundamentals and how macroscopic and microscopic ideas interweave. Includes numerous worked examples, and well over 400 guided, often multi-step, end-of-chapter problems that address conceptual, fundamental, and applied skill sets.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 406
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 586g
• ISBN-13: 9781107656710
• ISBN-10: 1107656710
• Artikelnr.: 39631511

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Ben Eggleston and Dale E. Miller
1. Utilitarianism before Bentham Colin Heydt
2. Bentham and utilitarianism in the early nineteenth century James E. Crimmins
3. Mill and utilitarianism in the mid nineteenth century Henry R. West
4. Sidgwick and utilitarianism in the late nineteenth century Roger Crisp
5. Utilitarianism in the twentieth century Krister Bykvist
6. Act utilitarianism Ben Eggleston
7. Rule utilitarianism Dale E. Miller
8. Global utilitarianism Julia Driver
9. Objectivism, subjectivism, and prospectivism Elinor Mason
10. Subjective theories of well-being Chris Heathwood
11. Objective theories of well-being Ben Bradley
12. Kantian ethics and utilitarianism Jens Timmermann
13. What virtue ethics can learn from utilitarianism Daniel C. Russell
14. Utilitarianism and fairness Brad Hooker
15. Utilitarianism and the ethics of war William H. Shaw
16. Utilitarianism and our obligations to future people Tim Mulgan.