Killing and Other Dastardly Deeds
Hard Problems for Moral Theory
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2026
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
9780691285092 (ISBN)
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
9780691285092 (ISBN)
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A powerful and probing critique of the ethical permissibility of serious harms
In Killing and Other Dastardly Deeds, eminent philosopher John Hawthorne rigorously probes the commonsense morality of killing and other serious harms, exposing troubling issues at the foundations of ethical thought.
The book addresses the ethical significance of causatives, focusing on the contrast between actions that are killings and those that aren’t killings, but which hasten death. It offers an extensive critique of popular contractualist treatments of the wrongness of harming people. It also investigates the popular absolutist idea that one should never perform an action that will with certainty kill someone when the only upside is an array of trifling goods. Along the way, readers learn just how difficult it is to embed various standard ethical ideas into a sensible normative theory of decision making.
Drawing many connections with areas of philosophy beyond ethics, and making important contributions at the intersection of ethics and decision theory, Killing and Other Dastardly Deeds is an insightful critique of absolutist prohibitions on killing.
In Killing and Other Dastardly Deeds, eminent philosopher John Hawthorne rigorously probes the commonsense morality of killing and other serious harms, exposing troubling issues at the foundations of ethical thought.
The book addresses the ethical significance of causatives, focusing on the contrast between actions that are killings and those that aren’t killings, but which hasten death. It offers an extensive critique of popular contractualist treatments of the wrongness of harming people. It also investigates the popular absolutist idea that one should never perform an action that will with certainty kill someone when the only upside is an array of trifling goods. Along the way, readers learn just how difficult it is to embed various standard ethical ideas into a sensible normative theory of decision making.
Drawing many connections with areas of philosophy beyond ethics, and making important contributions at the intersection of ethics and decision theory, Killing and Other Dastardly Deeds is an insightful critique of absolutist prohibitions on killing.
John Hawthorne is Provost Professor of Philosophy and the Linda MacDonald Hilf Chair in Philosophy at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Metaphysical Essays and Knowledge and Lotteries and the coauthor of The Bounds of Possibility, Narrow Content, The Reference Book, and Relativism and Monadic Truth.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 28.7.2026 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Carl G. Hempel Lecture Series |
| Co-Autor | Christina Dietz, Vishnu Sridharan, Yoaav Isaacs |
| Verlagsort | New Jersey |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 235 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie | |
| ISBN-13 | 9780691285092 / 9780691285092 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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