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

by Raibley,Jason R.; McDaniel,Kris

• ISBN13: 9780754652939
• ISBN10: 0754652939
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-07-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Fred Feldman, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, is widely recognized for his subtle defense of hedonistic consequentialism and for his plain-spoken and exact philosophical style. This book collects new and original articles from an international team of scholars to celebrate his philosophical contributions. The three main topics of the book - moral goodness, moral rightness and the ethical and metaphysical puzzles posed by death - are topics that have occupied Professor Feldman throughout his philosophical career. Each contribution advances the state of the art in analytical ethics and metaphysics through critical analysis of previous work and the formulation of new positions. As a collection, these essays represent a sustained reflection on the merits and limitations of a whole, integrated research program in moral philosophy: hedonistic consequentialism.

Table of Contents

Desert as fit : an axiomatic analysis	p. 3
Incomparability and measurement of value	p. 19
Indeterminate desert	p. 45
Indeterminate value, basic value, and summation	p. 71
Feldman's hedonism	p. 83
Feldman, rule-consequentialism, and desert	p. 103
Adjusting utility for justice : a reexamination of the connections between desert and intrinsic value	p. 115
What consequentialism is not	p. 135
The relevance of risk to wrongdoing	p. 151
Dispositions toward counterfactuals in ethics	p. 173
Earlier birth and later death : symmetry through thick and thin	p. 189
Revivifying Aristotle on life	p. 203
The Lucretian argument	p. 213
Reassessing immortality : the Makropulos case revisited	p. 227
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