Science-fiction Studies, Volume 31, Issue 2SFS Publications, 2004 - Science fiction |
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Page 189
... utilitarianism , a set that I will call calculation problems . Of course , Asimov himself does not explicitly describe his fiction as an exercise in utilitarian moral theory , but that is hardly surprising , for few outside of the world ...
... utilitarianism , a set that I will call calculation problems . Of course , Asimov himself does not explicitly describe his fiction as an exercise in utilitarian moral theory , but that is hardly surprising , for few outside of the world ...
Page 190
... utilitarian , it is worth taking a moment to cash out the theory of utilitarianism more completely . Utilitarianism predicates rightness and wrongness upon a particular conception of the good . It is what is known as a consequentialist ...
... utilitarian , it is worth taking a moment to cash out the theory of utilitarianism more completely . Utilitarianism predicates rightness and wrongness upon a particular conception of the good . It is what is known as a consequentialist ...
Page 203
... utilitarianism , see Smart's " Utilitarianism " or much of Peter Singer's work , especially The Expanding Circle and Rethinking Life and Death . Examples of more sophisticated utilitarian mechanisms include rule - utilitarianism , two ...
... utilitarianism , see Smart's " Utilitarianism " or much of Peter Singer's work , especially The Expanding Circle and Rethinking Life and Death . Examples of more sophisticated utilitarian mechanisms include rule - utilitarianism , two ...
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