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Título: | The definition of consequentialism: a survey
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Autor/a: | Horta Álvarez, Óscar
O'Brien, Gary David
Terán Pintos, Dayrón Aldebar
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Centro/Departamento: | Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Departamento de Filosofía e Antropoloxía
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Data: | 2022
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Editor: | Cambridge University Press
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Cita bibliográfica: | Horta, O., O'Brien, G., & Teran, D. (2022). The Definition of Consequentialism: A Survey. Utilitas, 1-18. doi:10.1017/S0953820822000164
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Resumo: | There are different meanings associated with consequentialism and teleology. This causes confusion, and sometimes results in discussions based on misunderstandings rather than on substantial disagreements. To clarify this, we created a survey on the definitions of ‘consequentialism’ and ‘teleology’, which we sent to specialists in consequentialism. We broke down the different meanings of consequentialism and teleology into four component parts: Outcome-Dependence, Value-Dependence, Maximization, and Agent-Neutrality. Combining these components in different ways we distinguished six definitions, all of which are represented in the philosophical literature. We asked the respondents which definition is best for consequentialism and for teleology. The most popular definition of consequentialism was the one which accepted value-dependence, but not maximization and agent-neutrality. We therefore recommend the use of this meaning to avoid misunderstandings. The results for teleology were more problematic, with several respondents claiming they never use the term, or indicating that it is confusing |
Versión do editor: | https://doi.org/10.1017/S0953820822000164 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10347/29283
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DOI: | 10.1017/S0953820822000164 |
ISSN: | 0953-8208
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E-ISSN: | 1741-6183
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Dereitos: | © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution and reproduction, provided the original article is properly cited Atribución 4.0 Internacional
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