Caspar Hare
Biographic Data
| ID | 3597586 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Caspar Hare |
| GIVEN NAMES | Caspar |
| FAMILY NAME | Hare |
| SIGNATURE | HARE C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Consequentialism and Indeterminacy
Many actions have indeterminate consequences. There is no fact of the matter about precisely what would have happened if they had not been taken. How should act consequentialists think about their objective moral status? This paper suggests a way for act consequentialists to think, and it draws attention to three remaining problems for act consequentialists to solve.
Should We Wish Well to All
Some moral theories (for example, standard, “ex post” forms of egalitarianism, prioritarianism, and constraint-based deontology) tell you, in some situations in which you are interacting with a group of people, to avoid acting in the way that is expectedly best for everybody. This essay argues that such theories are mistaken. Go ahead and do what is expectedly best for everybody. The argument is based on the thought that when interacting with an …
The Limits of Kindness
Caspar Hare presents a bold and original approach to questions of what we ought to do, and why we ought to do it. He breaks with tradition to argue that we can tackle difficult problems in normative ethics by starting with a principle that is humble and uncontroversial. Being moral involves wanting particular other people to be better off
Realism About Tense and Perspective
On one view of time (a view that has gone by the names oftense realism,eternalist A-theory,hyper-kenesis, and themoving spotlight view) past, present and future things exist, but their being past, present or future does not consist in their standing in before- and after-relations to other things. So, for example, the event of the signing of the Magna Carta is past, and its being so does not consist in, or reduce to, its coming before the events o…
Perfectly Balanced Interests 1
Rationality and the Distant Needy
The Limits of Kindness
Caspar Hare presents a bold and original approach to questions of what we ought to do, and why we ought to do it. He breaks with tradition to argue that we can tackle difficult problems in normative ethics by starting with a principle that is humble and uncontroversial. Being moral involves wanting particular other people to be better off
Should We Wish Well to All
Some moral theories (for example, standard, “ex post” forms of egalitarianism, prioritarianism, and constraint-based deontology) tell you, in some situations in which you are interacting with a group of people, to avoid acting in the way that is expectedly best for everybody. This essay argues that such theories are mistaken. Go ahead and do what is expectedly best for everybody. The argument is based on the thought that when interacting with an …
Realism About Tense and Perspective
On one view of time (a view that has gone by the names oftense realism,eternalist A-theory,hyper-kenesis, and themoving spotlight view) past, present and future things exist, but their being past, present or future does not consist in their standing in before- and after-relations to other things. So, for example, the event of the signing of the Magna Carta is past, and its being so does not consist in, or reduce to, its coming before the events o…
Rationality and the Distant Needy
Perfectly Balanced Interests 1
Realism About Tense and Perspective
On one view of time (a view that has gone by the names oftense realism,eternalist A-theory,hyper-kenesis, and themoving spotlight view) past, present and future things exist, but their being past, present or future does not consist in their standing in before- and after-relations to other things. So, for example, the event of the signing of the Magna Carta is past, and its being so does not consist in, or reduce to, its coming before the events o…
The Limits of Kindness
Caspar Hare presents a bold and original approach to questions of what we ought to do, and why we ought to do it. He breaks with tradition to argue that we can tackle difficult problems in normative ethics by starting with a principle that is humble and uncontroversial. Being moral involves wanting particular other people to be better off
Should We Wish Well to All
Some moral theories (for example, standard, “ex post” forms of egalitarianism, prioritarianism, and constraint-based deontology) tell you, in some situations in which you are interacting with a group of people, to avoid acting in the way that is expectedly best for everybody. This essay argues that such theories are mistaken. Go ahead and do what is expectedly best for everybody. The argument is based on the thought that when interacting with an …
Consequentialism and Indeterminacy
Many actions have indeterminate consequences. There is no fact of the matter about precisely what would have happened if they had not been taken. How should act consequentialists think about their objective moral status? This paper suggests a way for act consequentialists to think, and it draws attention to three remaining problems for act consequentialists to solve.
Epistemology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (3 works) · Law and economics (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Citation (2 works) · Consequentialism (2 works) · Game Theory and Voting Systems (2 works)