Applying utilitarianism: the problem of practical action-guidance
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Titel: Applying utilitarianism
Autor: Gren, Jonas
Jahr: 2004
Table of content
Acknowledgements
Chapter I: Introduction 1
1.0 The problem of practical action-guidance 1
2.0 The main issues 2
3.0 Limitations 4
4.0 The plan of this essay 4
Chapter II: AU and Practical Action-guidance 8
1.0 AU as a criterion of objective rightness of actions 8
2.0 AU and the problem of practical action-guidance 10
3.0 Direct applications of the criterion of rightness 11
3.1 Regress arguments 13
4.0 Criteria of rightness and methods of decision-making 15
4.1 The origins of the distinction 15
4.2 Examples of methods of decision-making 18
4.3 Consequences of the distinction 20
5.0 The main question 21
6.0 Desiderata for methods of decision-making 24
6.1 Methodological desiderata 24
6.2 Practical and normative desiderata 27
6.3 The Practicability desiderátum 28
6.3.1 Why is Practicability a desiderátum? 33
6.4 The Validity desiderátum 33
6.4.1 Why is Validity a desiderátum? 36
6.5 The relation betvveen practicality and validity 37
7.0 Concluding remarks 38
Chapter III: Maximising Expected Utility 40
1.0 Introduction 40
2.0 Maximising expected utility 40
3.0 The deliberative approach 43
3.1 Five steps of deliberation 45
3.2 lnterpreting the "input": The spectrum 46
3.2.1 The Ideal subjectivist approach 46
3.2.2 The Puré subjectivist approach 47
3.2.3 The Reasonable subjectivist approach 48
4.0 Determining the alternatives 49
4.1 Moore's criterion ofrelevance 53
5.0 Determining the outcomes 55
5.1 Sidgwick'srestriction 59
5.2 Moore's guidelines 60
5.3 The 'ripples in the pond'-postúlate 62
5.4 Epistemic discounting 66
6.0 Assigning probabilities 67
7.0 Calculating the expected Utilities of each alternative 70
8.0 The validity and practicability of the deliberative approach 71
8.1 Assessing the Puré subjectivist approach 71
8.2 Assessing the Ideal subjectivist approach 72
8.3 Assessing the Reasonable subjectivist approach 73
9.0 Conclusions 76
Chapter IV: Secondary Rules 78
1.0 Introduction 78
2.0 The problem of demarcation 80
3.0 Tannsjo's 'List' 83
3.1 Lackof time 84
3.2 Likely bias or wishful thinking 86
3.3 Intimacy 87
3.4 Threat or Blackmail 88
3.5 Justifying the list 88
4.0 Sidgwick: Restricted Empirical Hedonism 89
5.0 Haré: Levéis of moral thinking 92
5.1 Haré on'Intuitive moral thinking' 93
5.2 The Critical level 95
5.2.1 Designing principies 96
5.2.2 Resolving conflicts 97
5.3 Haré on the justification of adhering to
"Prima facie principies' 98
5.4 Alternating between the levéis 100
6.0 Moore: Some absolute prohibitions regarding calculation 101
6.1 Moore's method of moral decision-making 102
6.2 General rules ofconduct 105
7.0 Assessing the restricted deliberative strategy 111
7.1 Assessing trying to adhere to secondary rules 112
7.2 The problem of demarcation revisited 114
8.0 Conclusions 114
Chapter V: On the justification of AU 116
1.0 Introduction 116
2.0 Practical scepticism 117
3.0 AU and Moral constructivism 120
3.1 Definition of Moral constructivism 120
3.2 Mackie: Inventing morality 120
3.3 Ravvls: "Kantian constructivism' 123
4.0 Does practica! scepticism yield epistemic scepticism? 124
4.1 Imaginary cases 128
5.0 Scalar morality 129
6.0 Concluding remarks 134
7.0 Summary 135
Appendix 137
1.0 Practical scepticism and other normative theories 137
1.1 Virtue-ethics 138
1.2 Kant's theory 139
1.3 Nozick's 'principie of rectification' 141
1.4 Ravvls: The greatest benefit for the vvorst-off 142
2.0 Conclusión 143
References 145 |
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