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Good, the Right, Life and Death - Essays in Honor of Fred Feldman

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Informationen zum Autor 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

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