Jean-Paul Vessel
Biographic Data
| ID | 5118820 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jean-Paul Vessel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jean-Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Vessel |
| SIGNATURE | VESSEL J |
| AFFILIATIONS | New Mexico State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0527-0088 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Moore’s Open Question Phenomenon Explained—Naturalistically
G.E. Moore’s open question arguments (OQAs) have been targeted by unsympathetic philosophers for close to a century. Perhaps the most serious criticism directed towards Moore’s OQAs is that they beg the question against targeted theories. After presenting an OQA extracted from §13 of Principia Ethica, I lodge this question-begging objection before articulating Moore’s autobiographical efforts to mitigate its force. I then suggest that Moore’s OQA…
Desert-Adjusted Utilitarianism, People, and Animals
Recent decades have witnessed a surge in philosophical attention to the moral standing of non-human animals. Kantians, Neo-Kantians, utilitarians, and radical animal rights theorists have staked their claims in the literature. Here Fred Feldman’s desert-adjusted utilitarianism is introduced into the fray. After canvassing the prominent competitors in the dialectic, a conception of an overall moral ranking (relative to a moral choice scenario) con…
Against Securitism, the New Breed of Actualism in Consequentialist Thought
In Commonsense Consequentialism: Wherein Morality Meets Rationality , Douglas Portmore introduces a novel position regarding the actualist–possibilist controversies in consequentialist thought – securitism – a position he argues is theoretically superior to the standard views in both the actualist and possibilist camps. After distinguishing the two camps through an examination of the original Procrastinate case, I present Portmore's securitism (a…
Defending a possibilist insight in consequentialist thought
The Probabilistic Nature of Objective Consequentialism
Theorists have consistently maintained that the most plausible forms of objective consequentialism must be probabilistic if and only if indeterminism is true. This standard position, however popular, lacks sufficient motivation. Assume determinism to be true and an attempt will be made to show that attractive forms of objective consequentialism must be probabilistic ‐ and not for reasons related to our epistemic limitations either. Here it is arg…
Defending a possibilist insight in consequentialist thought
Against Securitism, the New Breed of Actualism in Consequentialist Thought
In Commonsense Consequentialism: Wherein Morality Meets Rationality , Douglas Portmore introduces a novel position regarding the actualist–possibilist controversies in consequentialist thought – securitism – a position he argues is theoretically superior to the standard views in both the actualist and possibilist camps. After distinguishing the two camps through an examination of the original Procrastinate case, I present Portmore's securitism (a…
The Probabilistic Nature of Objective Consequentialism
Theorists have consistently maintained that the most plausible forms of objective consequentialism must be probabilistic if and only if indeterminism is true. This standard position, however popular, lacks sufficient motivation. Assume determinism to be true and an attempt will be made to show that attractive forms of objective consequentialism must be probabilistic ‐ and not for reasons related to our epistemic limitations either. Here it is arg…
Defending a possibilist insight in consequentialist thought
Against Securitism, the New Breed of Actualism in Consequentialist Thought
In Commonsense Consequentialism: Wherein Morality Meets Rationality , Douglas Portmore introduces a novel position regarding the actualist–possibilist controversies in consequentialist thought – securitism – a position he argues is theoretically superior to the standard views in both the actualist and possibilist camps. After distinguishing the two camps through an examination of the original Procrastinate case, I present Portmore's securitism (a…
Moore’s Open Question Phenomenon Explained—Naturalistically
G.E. Moore’s open question arguments (OQAs) have been targeted by unsympathetic philosophers for close to a century. Perhaps the most serious criticism directed towards Moore’s OQAs is that they beg the question against targeted theories. After presenting an OQA extracted from §13 of Principia Ethica, I lodge this question-begging objection before articulating Moore’s autobiographical efforts to mitigate its force. I then suggest that Moore’s OQA…
Desert-Adjusted Utilitarianism, People, and Animals
Recent decades have witnessed a surge in philosophical attention to the moral standing of non-human animals. Kantians, Neo-Kantians, utilitarians, and radical animal rights theorists have staked their claims in the literature. Here Fred Feldman’s desert-adjusted utilitarianism is introduced into the fray. After canvassing the prominent competitors in the dialectic, a conception of an overall moral ranking (relative to a moral choice scenario) con…
Epistemology (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Consequentialism (3 works) · Environmental ethics (3 works) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (3 works) · Philosophical Ethics and Theory (3 works) · Economics (2 works) · Free Will and Agency (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Positive economics (2 works)