Piers Rawling
Biographic Data
| ID | 5760302 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Piers Rawling |
| GIVEN NAMES | Piers |
| FAMILY NAME | Rawling |
| SIGNATURE | RAWLING P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Florida State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0522-1721 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
True Blame
A true-emotion view of blameworthiness holds that one is blameworthy for an offence just in case one is a fitting target of a blaming emotion in response to that offence, and a blaming emotion is fitting just in case it truly represents things. Proportionality requires that fitting blame be of the right size, neither an overreaction nor an underreaction to the offence. Here it is argued that this requirement makes trouble for a true-emotion view.…
Blameworthiness and Dependence
Some recent accounts of blameworthiness present this property as response-dependent: an agent is blameworthy, they say, if and only if, and (if so) in virtue of the fact that, it is fitting to respond to her with a certain blaming emotion. Given the explanatory aim of these views, the selected emotion cannot be said simply to appraise its object as blameworthy. We argue that articulation of the appraisal in other terms suggested by proponents yie…
Deontology
Deontology is a theory about how we should act, morally speaking. It comes in several varieties, but all share certain doctrines, many of which are close to those found in the so-called 'common-sense morality' of the Western world. And all varieties are united in their opposition to consequentialism, a theory that, in its simplest form, tells us that we should always act so as to maximize impersonal value by bringing about the best consequences. …
Davidson on indeterminacy and ‘passing theories’
Donald Davidson, building in part on the work of W. V. O. Quine, who was a major influence on him, makes a pair of claims that, if true, would seem to undermine the work of practising translators. The first is that there is ‘no such thing as a language’, at least as concerns the traditional notion of what a language comprises. So translation as traditionally conceived may need rethinking. The second claim is that translation is inevitably indeter…
Deontology
This chapter proposes a novel form of deontology that, while it contrasts with consequentialism in defending duties of special relationship and options, is allied with consequentialism in denying that there are moral constraints. It devotes considerable attention to distinguishing between various consequentialist doctrines, and the distinction between them and deontology. The distinction between agent-relativity and agent-neutrality plays a cruci…
The Oxford Handbook of Rationality
Duty, Rationality, and Practical Reasons
The Oxford Handbook of Rationality
The Oxford Handbook of Rationality is a reference to the current state of play in the vital and interdisciplinary area of the study of rationality. Rationality has long been a central topic in philosophy, crossing standard divisions and categories. It continues to attract much attention in published research and teaching by philosophers as well as scholars in other disciplines, including economics, psychology, and law. Twenty-two articles provide…
Conditional and Conditioned Reasons
This paper is a brief reponse to some of Douglas Portmore's criticisms of our version of the agent-relative/agent-neutral distinction. In his interesting and helpful paper ‘McNaughton and Rawling on the Agent-relative/Agent-neutral Distinction’, Douglas Portmore criticizes our formalization of duties on the grounds that we have over-looked an important class of conditional cases in which the antecedent of the conditional falls outside the scope o…
Achievement, welfare and consequentialism
Journal Article Achievement, welfare and consequentialism Get access David McNaughton, David McNaughton Keele UniversityKeele, Staffs ST5 5BG, [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Piers Rawling Piers Rawling Keele UniversityKeele, Staffs ST5 5BG, [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Analysis, Volume 61, Issue 2, April …
Achievement, welfare and consequentialism
defend utilitarianism by moving from a hedonist account of well-being to one that allows a significant role for accomplishment thereby admits a ‘Trojan Horse ’ (267).1 To abandon hedonism in favour of a conception of well-being that incorporates achievement is to take the first step down a slippery slope toward the collapse of the other two pillars of utilitarian morality: welfarism and consequentialism. We shall argue that Crisp’s arguments do n…
Rationality and Dynamic Choice
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Rationality and Dynamic Choice: Foundational Explorations. By Edward F. Mcclennen. (Cambridge UP, 1990. Pp. xv + 311. Price not given.) Piers Rawling Piers Rawling University of Missouri at St Louis Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 46, Issue 184, July 1996, Pages 390–393, https://doi.org/10.2307/2956452 Published: 01 July 1996
Agent-Relativity and Terminological Inexactitudes
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Value and Agent-Relative Reasons
In recent years the distinction between agent-relative and agent-neutral reasons has been taken by many to play a key role in distinguishing deontology from consequentialism. It is central to all universalist consequentialist theories that value is determined impersonally; the real value of any state of affairs does not depend on the point of view of the agent. No reference, therefore, to the agent or to his or her position in the world need ente…
Choice and conditional expected utility
The Ranking of Preference
Journal Article The Ranking of Preference Get access Piers Rawling Piers Rawling University of Georgia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 40, Issue 161, October 1990, Pages 495–501, https://doi.org/10.2307/2220113 Published: 01 October 1990
Object–person discrimination and communication at 3 and 10 months
Object-person discrimination and communication at 3 and 10 months
Value and Agent-Relative Reasons
In recent years the distinction between agent-relative and agent-neutral reasons has been taken by many to play a key role in distinguishing deontology from consequentialism. It is central to all universalist consequentialist theories that value is determined impersonally; the real value of any state of affairs does not depend on the point of view of the agent. No reference, therefore, to the agent or to his or her position in the world need ente…
Object–person discrimination and communication at 3 and 10 months
Deontology
Deontology is a theory about how we should act, morally speaking. It comes in several varieties, but all share certain doctrines, many of which are close to those found in the so-called 'common-sense morality' of the Western world. And all varieties are united in their opposition to consequentialism, a theory that, in its simplest form, tells us that we should always act so as to maximize impersonal value by bringing about the best consequences. …
Davidson on indeterminacy and ‘passing theories’
Donald Davidson, building in part on the work of W. V. O. Quine, who was a major influence on him, makes a pair of claims that, if true, would seem to undermine the work of practising translators. The first is that there is ‘no such thing as a language’, at least as concerns the traditional notion of what a language comprises. So translation as traditionally conceived may need rethinking. The second claim is that translation is inevitably indeter…
Object–person discrimination and communication at 3 and 10 months
Object-person discrimination and communication at 3 and 10 months
The Ranking of Preference
Journal Article The Ranking of Preference Get access Piers Rawling Piers Rawling University of Georgia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 40, Issue 161, October 1990, Pages 495–501, https://doi.org/10.2307/2220113 Published: 01 October 1990
Choice and conditional expected utility
Agent-Relativity and Terminological Inexactitudes
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
Value and Agent-Relative Reasons
In recent years the distinction between agent-relative and agent-neutral reasons has been taken by many to play a key role in distinguishing deontology from consequentialism. It is central to all universalist consequentialist theories that value is determined impersonally; the real value of any state of affairs does not depend on the point of view of the agent. No reference, therefore, to the agent or to his or her position in the world need ente…
Rationality and Dynamic Choice
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Rationality and Dynamic Choice: Foundational Explorations. By Edward F. Mcclennen. (Cambridge UP, 1990. Pp. xv + 311. Price not given.) Piers Rawling Piers Rawling University of Missouri at St Louis Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 46, Issue 184, July 1996, Pages 390–393, https://doi.org/10.2307/2956452 Published: 01 July 1996
Achievement, welfare and consequentialism
Journal Article Achievement, welfare and consequentialism Get access David McNaughton, David McNaughton Keele UniversityKeele, Staffs ST5 5BG, [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Piers Rawling Piers Rawling Keele UniversityKeele, Staffs ST5 5BG, [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Analysis, Volume 61, Issue 2, April …
Achievement, welfare and consequentialism
defend utilitarianism by moving from a hedonist account of well-being to one that allows a significant role for accomplishment thereby admits a ‘Trojan Horse ’ (267).1 To abandon hedonism in favour of a conception of well-being that incorporates achievement is to take the first step down a slippery slope toward the collapse of the other two pillars of utilitarian morality: welfarism and consequentialism. We shall argue that Crisp’s arguments do n…
Conditional and Conditioned Reasons
This paper is a brief reponse to some of Douglas Portmore's criticisms of our version of the agent-relative/agent-neutral distinction. In his interesting and helpful paper ‘McNaughton and Rawling on the Agent-relative/Agent-neutral Distinction’, Douglas Portmore criticizes our formalization of duties on the grounds that we have over-looked an important class of conditional cases in which the antecedent of the conditional falls outside the scope o…
The Oxford Handbook of Rationality
Duty, Rationality, and Practical Reasons
The Oxford Handbook of Rationality
The Oxford Handbook of Rationality is a reference to the current state of play in the vital and interdisciplinary area of the study of rationality. Rationality has long been a central topic in philosophy, crossing standard divisions and categories. It continues to attract much attention in published research and teaching by philosophers as well as scholars in other disciplines, including economics, psychology, and law. Twenty-two articles provide…
Deontology
This chapter proposes a novel form of deontology that, while it contrasts with consequentialism in defending duties of special relationship and options, is allied with consequentialism in denying that there are moral constraints. It devotes considerable attention to distinguishing between various consequentialist doctrines, and the distinction between them and deontology. The distinction between agent-relativity and agent-neutrality plays a cruci…
Davidson on indeterminacy and ‘passing theories’
Donald Davidson, building in part on the work of W. V. O. Quine, who was a major influence on him, makes a pair of claims that, if true, would seem to undermine the work of practising translators. The first is that there is ‘no such thing as a language’, at least as concerns the traditional notion of what a language comprises. So translation as traditionally conceived may need rethinking. The second claim is that translation is inevitably indeter…
True Blame
A true-emotion view of blameworthiness holds that one is blameworthy for an offence just in case one is a fitting target of a blaming emotion in response to that offence, and a blaming emotion is fitting just in case it truly represents things. Proportionality requires that fitting blame be of the right size, neither an overreaction nor an underreaction to the offence. Here it is argued that this requirement makes trouble for a true-emotion view.…
Blameworthiness and Dependence
Some recent accounts of blameworthiness present this property as response-dependent: an agent is blameworthy, they say, if and only if, and (if so) in virtue of the fact that, it is fitting to respond to her with a certain blaming emotion. Given the explanatory aim of these views, the selected emotion cannot be said simply to appraise its object as blameworthy. We argue that articulation of the appraisal in other terms suggested by proponents yie…
Deontology
Deontology is a theory about how we should act, morally speaking. It comes in several varieties, but all share certain doctrines, many of which are close to those found in the so-called 'common-sense morality' of the Western world. And all varieties are united in their opposition to consequentialism, a theory that, in its simplest form, tells us that we should always act so as to maximize impersonal value by bringing about the best consequences. …
Epistemology (12 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Free Will and Agency (6 works) · Philosophical Ethics and Theory (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Consequentialism (5 works) · Political science (5 works)