{"product_id":"9789401085311","title":"Philosophical Studies Series: An Essay in Informal Deontic Logic","description":"\u003ch1\u003ePhilosophical Studies Series: An Essay in Informal Deontic Logic\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eFeldman, Fred\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003eSeveral years ago I came across a marvelous little paper in which Hector-Neri Castaneda shows that standard versions of act utilitarian­ l ism are formally incoherent. I was intrigued by his argument. It had long seemed to me that I had a firm grasp on act utilitarianism. Indeed, it had often seemed to me that it was the clearest and most attractive of normative theories. Yet here was a simple and relatively uncontrover­ sial argument that showed, with only some trivial assumptions, that the doctrine is virtually unintelligible. The gist of Castaneda's argument is this: suppose we understand act utilitarianism to be the view that an act is obligatory if and only if its utility exceeds that of each alternative. Suppose it is obligatory for a certain person to perform an act with two parts - we can call it 'A \u0026amp; B'. Then, obviously enough, it is also obligatory for this person to perform the parts, A and B. If act utilitarianism were true, we appar­ ently could infer that the utility of A \u0026amp; B is higher than that of A, and higher than that of B (because A \u0026amp; B is obligatory, and the other acts are alternatives to A \u0026amp; B).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Springer\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2011-09-27\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9789401085311\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-94-009-4570-8\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 235cm x155cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 246\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer Netherlands","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44422310494348,"sku":"9789401085311","price":98.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9789401085311.jpg?v=1772813737","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9789401085311","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}