Research Catalog

Title

Intricate ethics : rights, responsibilities, and permissible harm / F.M. Kamm.

Author

Kamm, F. M. (Frances Myrna)

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

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Details

Description

x, 509 p.; 25 cm.

Summary

F.M. Kamm is one of the leading ethical theorists working in philosophy today. In 'Intricate Ethics', she questions the moral importance of some non-consequentialist distinctions and then introduces and argues for the moral importance of other distinctions.

Series Statement

Oxford ethics series

Uniform Title

University press scholarship online.

Subject

• Consequentialism (Ethics)
• Ethics
• Responsibility
• Ethics

Genre/Form

Electronic books.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 491-497) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Nonconsequentialism -- Aggregation and two moral methods -- Intention, harm, and the possibility of a unified theory -- The doctrines of double and triple effect and why a rational agent need not intend the means to his end -- Toward the essence of nonconsequentialist constraints on harming : modality, productive purity, and the greater good working itself out -- Harming people in Peter Unger's Living high and letting die -- Moral status -- Rights beyond interests -- Conflicts of rights : a typology -- Responsibility and collaboration -- Does distance matter morally to the duty to rescue? -- The new problem of distance in morality -- Peter Singer's ethical theory -- Moral intuitions, cognitive psychology, and the harming/not-aiding distinction -- Harms, losses, and evils in Gert's moral theory -- Owing, justifying, and rejecting.

ISBN

• 0195189698 (alk. paper)
• 9780195189698 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2005047341

OCLC

• 58729323
• SCSB-10230371

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library