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The relevant alternatives for an agent in a situation are taken to comprise all actions that they can perform in the situation. The defense of this idea necessitates certain modifications to the standard consequentialist criteria of obligatoriness, rightness and wrongness. The problem of whether agents should adapt their actions to their own future actions is also addressed. Further, a conditional analysis of performability is suggested, and it is argued that particular actions should in this connection be regarded as `abstract' rather than `concrete'. The final chapter sketches a consequentialist theory for collective agents.
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Book Title: Consequentialism Reconsidered
Authors: Erik Carlson
Series Title: Theory and Decision Library A:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8553-8
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1995
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-3547-4Published: 31 August 1995
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-4571-3Published: 07 December 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-94-015-8553-8Published: 09 March 2013
Series ISSN: 0921-3384
Series E-ISSN: 2352-2119
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 171
Topics: Ethics, Operations Research/Decision Theory, Logic, Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods, Metaphysics