Martin Peterson

The Dimensions of Consequentialism

Ethics, Equality and Risk

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book introduces a new, multidimensional consequentialist theory, according to which an act's rightness depends on several irreducible dimensions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 489g
• ISBN-13: 9781107033030
• ISBN-10: 1107033039
• Artikelnr.: 36684062

Autorenporträt

Martin Peterson is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands. He is author of Non-Bayesian Decision Theory (2008) and An Introduction to Decision Theory (Cambridge, 2009).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Introduction
2. Degrees of rightness
3. First dimension: persons
4. Second dimension: equality
5. Third dimension: risk
6. Multidimensional decision making
7. The best one-dimensional theory
8. The limits of consequentialism
Appendix: multidimensional deontic logic.