Objective consequentialism and the plurality of chances

I claim that objective consequentialism (OC) faces a problem stemming from the existence in some situations of a plurality of chances relevant to the outcomes of an agent’s acts. I suggest that this phenomenon bears structural resemblance to the well-known Reference Class problem. I outline a few wa...

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Autor principal: Wroński, Leszek
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Netherlands 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8549919/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34720219
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11229-020-02851-5
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description I claim that objective consequentialism (OC) faces a problem stemming from the existence in some situations of a plurality of chances relevant to the outcomes of an agent’s acts. I suggest that this phenomenon bears structural resemblance to the well-known Reference Class problem. I outline a few ways in which one could attempt to deal with the issue, suggesting that it is the higher-level chance that should be employed by OC.
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spelling pubmed-85499192021-10-29 Objective consequentialism and the plurality of chances Wroński, Leszek Synthese Article I claim that objective consequentialism (OC) faces a problem stemming from the existence in some situations of a plurality of chances relevant to the outcomes of an agent’s acts. I suggest that this phenomenon bears structural resemblance to the well-known Reference Class problem. I outline a few ways in which one could attempt to deal with the issue, suggesting that it is the higher-level chance that should be employed by OC. Springer Netherlands 2020-09-02 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC8549919/ /pubmed/34720219 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11229-020-02851-5 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8549919/
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