Jason R. Raibley, Michael J. Zimmerman

The Good, the Right, Life and Death (eBook, PDF)

Essays in Honor of Fred Feldman
Redaktion: Mcdaniel, Kris

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Fred Feldman, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, is widely recognized for his subtle defence of hedonistic consequentialism and for his plainspoken and exact philosophical style. This book collects new and original articles from an international team of scholars to celebrate his philosophical contributions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351888714
• Artikelnr.: 49377930

Autorenporträt

Kris McDaniel is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Syracuse University, USA. Jason R. Raibley is Teaching Associate in Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, USA. Richard Feldman is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Rochester, USA. Michael J. Zimmerman is Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction
Jason R. Raibley. Part I The Good: Desert as fit: an axiomatic analysis
Gustaf Arrhenius; Incomparability and measurement of value
Erik Carlson; Indeterminate desert
Shelly Kagan; Indeterminate value
basic value
and summation
Noah M. Lemos; Feldman's hedonism
L.W. Sumner. Part II The Right: Feldman
rule-consequentialism
and desert
Brad Hooker; Adjusting utility for justice: a reexamination of the connections between desert and intrinsic value
Owen McLeod; What consequentialism is not
Ingmar Persson; The relevance of risk to wrongdoing
Michael J. Zimmerman. Part III Life and Death: Dispositions toward counterfactuals in ethics
Earl Conee; Earlier birth and later death: symmetry through thick and thin
John Martin Fischer; Revivifying Aristotle on life
Gareth B. Matthews; The Lucretian argument
Jeff McMahan; Reassessing immortality: the Makropulos case revisited
Jay F. Rosenberg. Bibliography; Index.