THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS AND UTILITARIANISM. A REPLY TO WLODEK RABINOWICZ'S PREFERENCE UTILITARIANISM BY WAY OF PREFERENCE CHANGE? (Eksperymenty myslowe a utylitaryzm. Odpowiedz na artykul Wlodka Rabinowicza)

• Authors: Saja Krzysztof
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

This article is a comment on Wlodek Rabinowicz Utilitarianism by Way of Preference Change?, in which I defend Richard Hare's argument for utilitarianism. I argue that Hare's role reversal thought experiments can, despite of Rabinowicz's criticism, lead to transforming interpersonal preference conflicts into intrapersonal ones, but, in order to achieve this, we need to interpret his thought experiment correctly. I distinguish three interpretation of reversing roles experiment and argue, that for at least two of them, which de facto Hare endorse, Rabinowicz criticism fails.

Keywords

EN

HARE; METAETHICS; PRESCRIPTIVISM; RABINOWICZ; UTILITARIANISM

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego
• Journal: Analiza i Egzystencja. Czasopismo Filozoficzne
• Year: 2010
• Issue: 12
• Pages: 39-60
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Saja Krzysztof

• Krzysztof Saja, Instytut Filozofii Uniwersytetu Szczecinskiego ul. Krakowska 71-79 , 71-004 Szczecin, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

11PLAAAA10062