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UTILITARIANISM, CONSEQUENTIALISM AND MAKING ROOM FOR SUPEREROGATION by NORA GRIGORE

download pdf Abstract. I am discussing three strategies of fitting supererogation within consequentialist frameworks, namely Slote’s (1984) and Scheffler’s (1994). My main claim is that not only the utilitarian or consequentialist framework is modified to accommodate supererogation, but also the concept of supererogation suffers transformations in the process. It is therefore questionable if the theories…

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A CRITIQUE ON MCGINN COUNTERARGUMENTS ON RUSSELL’S THEORY OF EXISTENCE by PAULA POMPILIA TOMI

Download pdf BIBLIOGRAPHY Belnap, Nuel, D., ‘Gupta’s Rule on Revision Theory of Truth’, in Journal of Philosophical logic, 11, 1982, pp.103-116 Belnap, Nuel and Gupta, Anil, The Revision Theory of Truth, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1993 McGinn, Colin, Logical Properties: Identity, Existence, Predication, Necessity, Truth, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000, pp. 15-51 Gupta, Anil, ‘Truth and Paradox’,…

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