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Impartiality and Associative DutiesUtilitas 13 (2): 152. 2001.Consequentialism is often criticized for failing to accommodate impersonal constraints and personal options. A common consequentialist response is to acknowledge the anticonsequentialist intuitions but to argue either that the consequentialist can, after all, accommodate the allegedly recalcitrant intuitions or that, where accommodation is impossible, the recalcitrant intuition can be dismissed for want of an adequate philosophical rationale. Whereas these consequentialist responses have some pl…Read more
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Moral Realism and the Foundations of EthicsCambridge University Press. 1989.This book is a systematic and constructive treatment of a number of traditional issues at the foundation of ethics, the possibility and nature of moral knowledge, the relationship between the moral point of view and a scientific or naturalistic world view, the nature of moral value and obligation, and the role of morality in a person's rational life plan. In striking contrast to many traditional authors and to other recent writers in the field, David Brink offers an integrated defense of the obj…Read more
Ryan Stringer
Lincoln Land Community College
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Lincoln Land Community CollegeAssistant Professor
University of California, San Diego
PhD, 2019
Areas of Specialization
Value Theory |
Areas of Interest
Philosophy, Misc |
Value Theory |