TY - JOUR
T1 - The no-best action counter-examples to McMahan's asymmetries
AU - Luck, Morgan
N1 - Imported on 12 Apr 2017 - DigiTool details were: Journal title (773t) = Ethical Perspectives: journal of the European Ethics Network. ISSNs: 1783-1431;
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - The purpose of this article is to introduce counter-examples both to McMahan’s Asymmetry (1981), and to his proposed solution to the Asymmetry, the Weak Asymmetry (2009). These counter-examples involve cases in which there is no-best action for an agent to perform, because of the availability of an infinite number of increasingly better actions. Consequently, one might employ these counter-examples to argue against the Asymmetry from the possibility of such cases, or against the possibility of such cases from the Asymmetry.
AB - The purpose of this article is to introduce counter-examples both to McMahan’s Asymmetry (1981), and to his proposed solution to the Asymmetry, the Weak Asymmetry (2009). These counter-examples involve cases in which there is no-best action for an agent to perform, because of the availability of an infinite number of increasingly better actions. Consequently, one might employ these counter-examples to argue against the Asymmetry from the possibility of such cases, or against the possibility of such cases from the Asymmetry.
U2 - 10.2143/EP.23.4.3188784
DO - 10.2143/EP.23.4.3188784
M3 - Article
SN - 1783-1431
VL - 23
SP - 613
EP - 624
JO - Ethical Perspectives: journal of the European Ethics Network
JF - Ethical Perspectives: journal of the European Ethics Network
IS - 4
ER -