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  1. Counterfactuals.David K. Lewis - 1973 - Malden, Mass.: Blackwell.
    Counterfactuals is David Lewis' forceful presentation of and sustained argument for a particular view about propositions which express contrary to fact conditionals, including his famous defense of realism about possible worlds and his theory of laws of nature.
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  • (2 other versions)Counterfactuals.David Lewis - 1973 - Foundations of Language 13 (1):145-151.
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  • (2 other versions)Counterfactuals.David Lewis - 1973 - Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 36 (3):602-605.
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  • Counterfactual Dependence and Time’s Arrow.David Lewis - 1979 - Noûs 13 (4):455-476.
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  • (2 other versions)Counterfactuals.David Lewis - 1973 - Philosophy of Science 42 (3):341-344.
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  • (2 other versions)Philosophical Papers Vol. II.David K. Lewis (ed.) - 1986 - Oxford University Press.
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  • (2 other versions)Philosophical Papers, Volume II.David Lewis - 1986 - New York, US: Oxford University Press.
    A collection of 13 papers by David Lewis, written on a variety of topics including causation, counterfactuals and indicative conditionals, the direction of time, subjective and objective probability, explanation, perception, free will, and rational decision. The conclusions reached include the claim that time travel is possible, that counterfactual dependence is asymmetrical, that events are properties of spatiotemporal regions, that the Prisoners’ Dilemma is a Newcomb problem, and that causation can be analyzed in terms of counterfactual dependence between events. These papers (...)
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  • The Concept of Moral Obligation.Michael J. Zimmerman - 1996 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    The principal aim of this book is to develop and defend an analysis of the concept of moral obligation. The analysis is neutral regarding competing substantive theories of obligation, whether consequentialist or deontological in character. What it seeks to do is generate solutions to a range of philosophical problems concerning obligation and its application. Amongst these problems are deontic paradoxes, the supersession of obligation, conditional obligation, prima facie obligation, actualism and possibilism, dilemmas, supererogation, and cooperation. By virtue of its normative (...)
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  • Oughts, options, and actualism.Frank Jackson & Robert Pargetter - 1986 - Philosophical Review 95 (2):233-255.
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  • Satisficing Consequentialism.Michael Slote & Philip Pettit - 1984 - Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 58 (1):139-176.
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  • (1 other version)An analysis of some deontic logics.Bengt Hansson - 1969 - Noûs 3 (4):373-398.
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  • (1 other version)The Concept of Moral Obligation.Lou Goble - 1996 - Philosophical and Phenomenological Research 60 (1):242-244.
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  • Consequentialism Reconsidered.Erik Carlson - 1995 - Dordrecht, Netherland: Springer.
    In Consequentialism Reconsidered, Carlson strives to find a plausible formulation of the structural part of consequentialism. Key notions are analyzed, such as outcomes, alternatives and performability. Carlson argues that consequentialism should be understood as a maximizing rather than a satisficing theory, and as temporally neutral rather than future oriented. He also shows that certain moral theories cannot be reformulated as consequentialist theories. The relevant alternatives for an agent in a situation are taken to comprise all actions that they can perform (...)
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  • Against satisficing consequentialism.Ben Bradley - 2006 - Utilitas 18 (2):97-108.
    The move to satisficing has been thought to help consequentialists avoid the problem of demandingness. But this is a mistake. In this article I formulate several versions of satisficing consequentialism. I show that every version is unacceptable, because every version permits agents to bring about a submaximal outcome in order to prevent a better outcome from obtaining. Some satisficers try to avoid this problem by incorporating a notion of personal sacrifice into the view. I show that these attempts are unsuccessful. (...)
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  • Doing the Best One Can.Holly S. Goldman - 1978 - In A. I. Goldman & I. Kim (eds.), Values and Morals. Boston: D. Reidel. pp. 185--214.
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  • Dated rightness and moral imperfection.Holly S. Goldman - 1976 - Philosophical Review 85 (4):449-487.
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  • The Logic of Conditional Obligation.Bas C. Van Fraassen - 1972 - Journal of Philosophical Logic 1 (3/4):417.
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  • Utilitarianism and past and future mistakes.Jordan Howard Sobel - 1976 - Noûs 10 (2):195-219.
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  • The Background of Circumstances.I. L. Humberstone - 2017 - Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 64 (1):19-34.
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  • The logic of conditional obligation.Bas C. Fraassen - 1972 - Journal of Philosophical Logic 1 (3/4):417 - 438.
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  • Utilitarianism, Hedonism, and Desert.Fred Feldman - 2000 - Philosophical and Phenomenological Research 60 (3):734-737.
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  • Deontic logic and the role of freedom in moral deliberation.Richmond H. Thomason - 1981 - In Risto Hilpinen (ed.), New Studies in Deontic Logic: Norms, Actions, and the Foundations of Ethics. Dordrecht, Netherland: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 177--186.
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  • Beyond Optimizing. A Study of Rational Choice.Michael Slote - 1992 - Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 54 (2):359-359.
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  • Two kinds of satisficing.Thomas Hurka - 1990 - Philosophical Studies 59 (1):107 - 111.
    Michael Slote has defended a moral view that he calls "satisficing consequentialism." Less demanding than maximizing consequentialism, it requires only that agents bring about consequences that are "good enough." I argue that Slote's characterization of satisficing is ambiguous. His idea of consequences' being "good enough" admits of two interpretations, with different implications in (some) particular cases. One interpretation I call "absolute-level" satisficing, the other "comparative" satisficing. Once distinguished, these versions of satisficing appear in a very different light. Absolute-level satisficing is (...)
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  • Oughts and determinism: A response to Goldman.P. S. Greenspan - 1978 - Philosophical Review 87 (1):77-83.
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  • Consequentialism, alternatives, and actualism.Erik Carlson - 1999 - Philosophical Studies 96 (3):253-268.
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  • A new system of deontic logic.Georg Henrik von Wright - 1970 - In Risto Hilpinen (ed.), Deontic logic: introductory and systematic readings. Hingham, MA: Sold and distributed in the U.S.A. and Canada by Kluwer Boston.
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  • Levels of obligation.Michael McKinsey - 1979 - Philosophical Studies 35 (4):385 - 395.
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  • Prosaic possibilism.M. Vorobej - 2000 - Philosophical Studies 97 (2):131-136.
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  • On the formulation and application of utilitarianism.Lars Bergstrom - 1976 - Noûs 10 (2):121-144.
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  • An axiom system for deontic logic.Nicholas Rescher - 1958 - Philosophical Studies 9 (1-2):24 - 30.
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  • Utilitarian principles for imperfect agents.Jordan Howard Sobel - 1982 - Theoria 48 (3):113-126.
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  • Counterfactuals for consequentialists.Jean-Paul Vessel - 2003 - Philosophical Studies 112 (2):103 - 125.
    That all subjunctive conditionals with true antecedents and trueconsequents are themselves also true is implied by every plausibleand popularly endorsed account. But I am wary of endorsing thisimplication. I argue that all presently endorsed accounts fail tocapture the nature of certain subjunctive conditionals in contextsof consequentialist reasoning. I attempt to show that we must allowfor the possibility that some subjunctive conditionals with trueantecedents and true consequents are false, if we are to believethat certain types of straightforward consequentialist reasoningare coherent. I (...)
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  • The logic of obligation, 'better' and 'worse'.Lou Goble - 1993 - Philosophical Studies 70 (2):133 - 163.
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  • The Background of Circumstances.Lloyd Humberstone - 1983 - Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 64:19-34.
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  • Slote's Satisficing Consequentialism.Tim Mulgan - 1993 - Ratio 6 (2):121 - 134.
    The article discusses Michael Slote's Satisficing Consequentialism, which is the view that moral agents are not required to maximise the good, but merely to produce a sufficient amount of good. It is argued that Satisficing Consequentialism is not an acceptable alternative to Maximising Consequentialism. In particular, it is argued that Satisficing Consequentialism cannot be less demanding in practice than Maximising Consequentialism without also endorsing a wide range of clearly unacceptable actions. It is then argued that Slote's inability to provide adequate (...)
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  • The Relevance of Risk to Wrongdoing.Michael J. Zimmerman - 2005 - In Kris McDaniel, Jason R. Raibley, Richard Feldman & Michael J. Zimmerman (eds.), The Good, the Right, Life And Death: Essays in Honor of Fred Feldman. Ashgate.
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  • The alternatives to an action.Dag Prawitz - 1970 - Theoria 36 (2):116-126.
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  • A correction to a new system of deontic logic.Georg Henrik Von Wright - 1965 - Danish Yearbook of Philosophy 2:103-107.
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  • The Probabilistic Nature of Objective Consequentialism.Jean-Paul Vessel - 2007 - Theoria 73 (1):46 - 67.
    Theorists have consistently maintained that the most plausible forms of objective consequentialism must be probabilistic if and only if indeterminism is true. This standard position, however popular, lacks sufficient motivation. Assume determinism to be true and an attempt will be made to show that attractive forms of objective consequentialism must be probabilistic - and not for reasons related to our epistemic limitations either. -/- Here it is argued that all extant objective formulations of consequentialism fail to deliver the normative implications (...)
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  • Reply To Mcmichael'S Too Much Of A Good Thing: A Problem In Deontic Logic.David K. Lewis - 1978 - Analysis 38 (March):85-86.
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  • Conditional permission in deontic logic.Nicholas Rescher & Alan Ross Anderson - 1962 - Philosophical Studies 13 (1-2):1 - 6.
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  • The two puzzles about conditional obligation.Frank Jackson & Robert Pargetter - 1987 - Philosophical Papers 16 (2):75-83.
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  • Too Much of a Good Thing: A Problem in Deontic Logic.Alan McMichael - 1978 - Analysis 38 (2):83 - 84.
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  • Beyond Optimizing: A Study of Rational Choice, by Michael Slote. [REVIEW]J. M. Moravcsik - 1992 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 52 (1):237-241.
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  • Utilitarianism, Hedonism, and Desert. [REVIEW]Peter Vallentyne - 2000 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 60 (3):734-737.
    This is a collection of ten of Fred Feldman’s previously published articles along with an introduction. The essays concern three main topics: the nature and structure of consequentialism, the nature of pleasure, and the moral relevance of desert. The introduction provides a very useful overview of how the pieces fit together and of their general significance. In addition, each article is preceded by a very crisp synopsis.
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