The heart of consequentialism

Howard-Snyder, Frances

doi:10.1007/bf00989722

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“…32 For a less compressed version of this argument, see Portmore (manuscript). 33 See Howard-Snyder (1994).…”

Section: Drac's Distinct Advantagesmentioning

confidence: 98%

Dual-ranking act-consequentialism

Portmore

2007

Philos Stud

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Dual-ranking act-consequentialism (DRAC) is a rather peculiar version of act-consequentialism. Unlike more traditional forms of act-consequentialism, DRAC doesn't take the deontic status of an action to be a function of some evaluative ranking of outcomes. Rather, it takes the deontic status of an action to be a function of some non-evaluative ranking that is in turn a function of two auxiliary rankings that are evaluative. I argue that DRAC is promising in that it can accommodate certain features of commonsense morality that no single-ranking version of act-consequentialism can: supererogation, agent-centered options, and the self-other asymmetry. I also defend DRAC against three objections: (1) that its dual-ranking structure is ad hoc, (2) that it denies (putatively implausibly) that it is always permissible to make self-sacrifices that don't make things worse for others, and (3) that it violates certain axioms of expected utility theory, viz., transitivity and independence.

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“…32 For a less compressed version of this argument, see Portmore (manuscript). 33 See Howard-Snyder (1994).…”

Section: Drac's Distinct Advantagesmentioning

confidence: 98%

Dual-ranking act-consequentialism

Portmore

2007

Philos Stud

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“…Justice originates from the moral philosophy branch of normative ethics. The existing literature reveals that the normative ethics consist of consequentialism (utilitarian, and so on) (Stubbs, 1981;Howard-Snyder, 1994;Petersen, 2013), deontology (Kymlicka, 1988;Rawls, 2001), and virtue ethics (Gong & Zhang, 2010;Dimmock & Fisher, 2017). First, a consequentialist judges whether an action is ethical or not from examining its consequences.…”

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Environmental justice in the context of planning

Ntiwane

Coetzee

2018

TRP

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“…Someone who still believes that there's a way to read TOA that has both (1) and (2) come out true without equivocating on "consequentialism" might want a more comprehensive survey of possible notions of consequentialism. Consider, then, the suggestion that consequentialist theories are purely agent-neutral, as opposed to agent-relative (McNaughton andRawling 1991 andHoward-Snyder 1994). To get a sense of these terms, consider the operator "should ensure the state of affairs […] obtains," where the ellipsis is to be filled in with a description of a state of affairs.…”

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Is Reliabilism a Form of Consequentialism?

Dunn¹,

Ahlström-Vij²

2017

American Philosophical Quarterly

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Reliabilism—the view that a belief is justified iff it is produced by a reliable process—is often characterized as a form of consequentialism. Recently, critics of reliabilism have suggested that since it is a form of consequentialism, reliabilism condones a variety of problematic trade-offs involving cases where someone forms an epistemically deficient belief now that will lead her to more epistemic value later. In the present paper, we argue that the relevant argument against reliabilism fails because it equivocates. While there is a sense in which reliabilism is a kind of consequentialism, it is not of a kind on which we should expect problematic trade-offs.

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The heart of consequentialism

Cited by 18 publications

References 9 publications

Dual-ranking act-consequentialism

Dual-ranking act-consequentialism

Environmental justice in the context of planning

Is Reliabilism a Form of Consequentialism?

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