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1718Instrumental Normativity: In Defense of the Transmission PrincipleEthics 125 (4): 921-946. 2015.If you ought to perform a certain act, and some other action is a necessary means for you to perform that act, then you ought to perform that other action as well – or so it seems plausible to say. This transmission principle is of both practical and theoretical significance. The aim of this paper is to defend this principle against a number of recent objections, which (as I show) are all based on core assumptions of the view called actualism. I reject actualism, provide an alternative explanati…Read more
Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Action |
Applied Ethics |
Meta-Ethics |
Normative Ethics |