William H Shaw
Biographic Data
| ID | 447268 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William H Shaw |
| GIVEN NAMES | William H |
| FAMILY NAME | Shaw |
| SIGNATURE | SHAW W H |
| AFFILIATIONS | San Jose State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Utilitarianism in the Early American Republic James E. Crimmins, New York: Routledge, 2022, pp. 280
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Economic Justice
On what basis should economic goods and services be distributed? There are various intuitively plausible principles, such as need or desert, which seem to work in some circumstances, but not others. Accordingly, some philosophers have advanced more comprehensive accounts of economic justice, in particular, utilitarianism, libertarianism, and Rawls's social contract theory. Recently, increased attention has been given to questions of global econom…
The Cambridge Companion to Utilitarianism
Utilitarianism, the approach to ethics based on the maximization of overall well-being, continues to have great traction in moral philosophy and political thought. This Companion offers a systematic exploration of its history, themes, and applications. First, it traces the origins and development of utilitarianism via the work of Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, Henry Sidgwick, and others. The volume then explores issues in the formulation of ut…
Consequentialism, war, and national defense
What, if anything, grounds the right of national defense? This essay explicates and defends a consequentialist answer to that question. After explaining the relevance and importance of this project, I clarify the meaning of consequentialism and explain how consequentialists understand and justify rights, including the right of national defense. International law enshrines that right. After explaining why it is correct to do so and why that right …
Utilitarianism and Recourse to War
Despite the enormous impact that war and the threat of war have had on human well-being, utilitarians have had surprisingly little to say about when, if ever, we may fight wars. Discussion of this question has been dominated by realism, pacifism and just war theory. This article takes some preliminary steps toward remedying this situation. I begin by spelling out what I call the Utilitarian War Principle (UWP). After presenting some consideration…
Ethics
They Stole Our Land: Debating the expropriation of white farms in Zimbabwe
In Zimbabwe today, Robert Mugabe and his ZANU-PF colleagues are busy expropriating white-owned farms, and claiming the moral high ground while they do so. Indeed, many observers, inside Zimbabwe and elsewhere, take it for granted that, whatever Mugabe's excesses, there is justice in his cause. But is there? This paper examines three moral arguments that Mugabe and his supporters advance to justify their land policies: that the peasants need the l…
Is Hypocrisy a Problem for Consequentialism
Eldon Soifer and Béla Szabados argue that hypocrisy poses a problem for consequentialism because the hypocrite, in pretending to live up to a norm he or she does not really accept, acts in ways that have good results. They argue, however, that consequentialists can meet this challenge and show the wrongness of hypocrisy by adopting a desirefulfilment version of their theory. This essay raises some doubts about Soifer and Szabados's proposal and a…
Duquette and the Primacy Thesis
A Moral Theory for Marxists
Marxists are divided as to the nature of Karl Marx's ethical judgments and the position they should take toward moral questions. This article recommends to Marxists a particular approach to morality, that associated with the work of Richard Brandt, which the author argues should ease problems Marxists have with questions of morality. After reviewing the debate over Marxism and morality, the author sketches Brandt's theory, explains why it should …
Making Sense of Marx
Historical Materialism and the Development Thesis
Towards the One-Party State in Zimbabwe: A Study in African Political Thought
Zimbabwe today is the site of a surprisingly vigorous debate over the one-party state. Some students of Africa might find the issue stale and the conclusion foregone, but Zimbabweans do not look at their political future that way. The first task of this article is to present the arguments of the Zimbabwe African National Union (Patriotic Front) in favour of one-party rule and the rebuttals this has provoked. Documenting this debate is worthwhile …
Marx and Morgan
Marx held that human society prior to the dawning of civilization represented a kind of communism, and this belief is widely thought to lend a rather tidy cyclical form to the pattern of history envisioned by historical materialism. This primitive -marked, as is communism proper, by the absence of socioeconomic classes -is the exception, noted by Engels, to the Communist Manifesto's claim that the history of all hitherto existing society has been…
The Limits to Capital
Analogy and Inference
The nature of analogies, and their legitimacy in argumentation and inference, is a disputed subject. This essay is intended to shed some light on the tangle of issues that it involves. After discussing in section one the different functions of analogy, in particular in explanation and in science, we present in section two a prima facie defense of analogical argument against those who repudiate it entirely and in section three an account of its lo…
Karl Marx's Theory of History. A Defence
Intellectual and Manual Labour: A Critique of Epistemology
Karl Marx's Theory of History: A Defence
Marx's Theory of History
The Handmill Gives You the Feudal Lord: Marx's Technological Determinism
Une defense de l'interpretation de la theorie de l'histoire de Marx comme une theorie de determinisme technologique. Les forces productrices de l'homme, le materialisme historique
Marx's Theory of History
EARLIER v ER s Io N of this essay was submitted as a disser-~ tation to the London School of Economics and Political Science. I am grateful to them and to the Leverhulme Foundation for the financial support which allowed me to carry out the
They Stole Our Land: Debating the expropriation of white farms in Zimbabwe
In Zimbabwe today, Robert Mugabe and his ZANU-PF colleagues are busy expropriating white-owned farms, and claiming the moral high ground while they do so. Indeed, many observers, inside Zimbabwe and elsewhere, take it for granted that, whatever Mugabe's excesses, there is justice in his cause. But is there? This paper examines three moral arguments that Mugabe and his supporters advance to justify their land policies: that the peasants need the l…
Towards the One-Party State in Zimbabwe: A Study in African Political Thought
Zimbabwe today is the site of a surprisingly vigorous debate over the one-party state. Some students of Africa might find the issue stale and the conclusion foregone, but Zimbabweans do not look at their political future that way. The first task of this article is to present the arguments of the Zimbabwe African National Union (Patriotic Front) in favour of one-party rule and the rebuttals this has provoked. Documenting this debate is worthwhile …
Marx and Morgan
Marx held that human society prior to the dawning of civilization represented a kind of communism, and this belief is widely thought to lend a rather tidy cyclical form to the pattern of history envisioned by historical materialism. This primitive -marked, as is communism proper, by the absence of socioeconomic classes -is the exception, noted by Engels, to the Communist Manifesto's claim that the history of all hitherto existing society has been…
The Handmill Gives You the Feudal Lord: Marx's Technological Determinism
Une defense de l'interpretation de la theorie de l'histoire de Marx comme une theorie de determinisme technologique. Les forces productrices de l'homme, le materialisme historique
Utilitarianism and Recourse to War
Despite the enormous impact that war and the threat of war have had on human well-being, utilitarians have had surprisingly little to say about when, if ever, we may fight wars. Discussion of this question has been dominated by realism, pacifism and just war theory. This article takes some preliminary steps toward remedying this situation. I begin by spelling out what I call the Utilitarian War Principle (UWP). After presenting some consideration…
Marx's Theory of History
EARLIER v ER s Io N of this essay was submitted as a disser-~ tation to the London School of Economics and Political Science. I am grateful to them and to the Leverhulme Foundation for the financial support which allowed me to carry out the
Intellectual and Manual Labour: A Critique of Epistemology
Karl Marx's Theory of History: A Defence
Marx's Theory of History
The Handmill Gives You the Feudal Lord: Marx's Technological Determinism
Une defense de l'interpretation de la theorie de l'histoire de Marx comme une theorie de determinisme technologique. Les forces productrices de l'homme, le materialisme historique
Karl Marx's Theory of History. A Defence
The Limits to Capital
Analogy and Inference
The nature of analogies, and their legitimacy in argumentation and inference, is a disputed subject. This essay is intended to shed some light on the tangle of issues that it involves. After discussing in section one the different functions of analogy, in particular in explanation and in science, we present in section two a prima facie defense of analogical argument against those who repudiate it entirely and in section three an account of its lo…
Marx and Morgan
Marx held that human society prior to the dawning of civilization represented a kind of communism, and this belief is widely thought to lend a rather tidy cyclical form to the pattern of history envisioned by historical materialism. This primitive -marked, as is communism proper, by the absence of socioeconomic classes -is the exception, noted by Engels, to the Communist Manifesto's claim that the history of all hitherto existing society has been…
Making Sense of Marx
Historical Materialism and the Development Thesis
Towards the One-Party State in Zimbabwe: A Study in African Political Thought
Zimbabwe today is the site of a surprisingly vigorous debate over the one-party state. Some students of Africa might find the issue stale and the conclusion foregone, but Zimbabweans do not look at their political future that way. The first task of this article is to present the arguments of the Zimbabwe African National Union (Patriotic Front) in favour of one-party rule and the rebuttals this has provoked. Documenting this debate is worthwhile …
A Moral Theory for Marxists
Marxists are divided as to the nature of Karl Marx's ethical judgments and the position they should take toward moral questions. This article recommends to Marxists a particular approach to morality, that associated with the work of Richard Brandt, which the author argues should ease problems Marxists have with questions of morality. After reviewing the debate over Marxism and morality, the author sketches Brandt's theory, explains why it should …
Duquette and the Primacy Thesis
Is Hypocrisy a Problem for Consequentialism
Eldon Soifer and Béla Szabados argue that hypocrisy poses a problem for consequentialism because the hypocrite, in pretending to live up to a norm he or she does not really accept, acts in ways that have good results. They argue, however, that consequentialists can meet this challenge and show the wrongness of hypocrisy by adopting a desirefulfilment version of their theory. This essay raises some doubts about Soifer and Szabados's proposal and a…
They Stole Our Land: Debating the expropriation of white farms in Zimbabwe
In Zimbabwe today, Robert Mugabe and his ZANU-PF colleagues are busy expropriating white-owned farms, and claiming the moral high ground while they do so. Indeed, many observers, inside Zimbabwe and elsewhere, take it for granted that, whatever Mugabe's excesses, there is justice in his cause. But is there? This paper examines three moral arguments that Mugabe and his supporters advance to justify their land policies: that the peasants need the l…
Ethics
Utilitarianism and Recourse to War
Despite the enormous impact that war and the threat of war have had on human well-being, utilitarians have had surprisingly little to say about when, if ever, we may fight wars. Discussion of this question has been dominated by realism, pacifism and just war theory. This article takes some preliminary steps toward remedying this situation. I begin by spelling out what I call the Utilitarian War Principle (UWP). After presenting some consideration…
The Cambridge Companion to Utilitarianism
Utilitarianism, the approach to ethics based on the maximization of overall well-being, continues to have great traction in moral philosophy and political thought. This Companion offers a systematic exploration of its history, themes, and applications. First, it traces the origins and development of utilitarianism via the work of Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, Henry Sidgwick, and others. The volume then explores issues in the formulation of ut…
Consequentialism, war, and national defense
What, if anything, grounds the right of national defense? This essay explicates and defends a consequentialist answer to that question. After explaining the relevance and importance of this project, I clarify the meaning of consequentialism and explain how consequentialists understand and justify rights, including the right of national defense. International law enshrines that right. After explaining why it is correct to do so and why that right …
Economic Justice
On what basis should economic goods and services be distributed? There are various intuitively plausible principles, such as need or desert, which seem to work in some circumstances, but not others. Accordingly, some philosophers have advanced more comprehensive accounts of economic justice, in particular, utilitarianism, libertarianism, and Rawls's social contract theory. Recently, increased attention has been given to questions of global econom…
Utilitarianism in the Early American Republic James E. Crimmins, New York: Routledge, 2022, pp. 280
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
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