Supererogation again

Journal of Value Inquiry

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 245-253

  Postow, B C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

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EID: 33845288350     PISSN: 00225363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10790-006-1344-3     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. Douglas Portmore, "Position-Relative Consequentialism, Agent-Centered Options, and Supererogation," Ethics 113(2) (January 2003).
2. Shelly Kagan, The Limits of Morality (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989), pp. 378-79.
3. Portmore, The Limits of Morality, op. cit., p. 328.
4. Joseph Raz, Practical Reason and Norms (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1990. Originally published: London: Hutchinson, 1975), p. 94.
5. Jonathan Dancy, Moral Reasons (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1993), p. 139.
6. Jonathan Dancy, Moral Reasons, Ibid., p. 215.
7. See Richard B. Brandt, "Toward a Credible-Form of Utilitarianism," in Hector-Neri Castañeda and George Nakhnikian, eds., Morality and the Language of Conduct (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1963), pp. 120-125.
8. Brad Hooker, Ideal Code, Real World (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), pp. 165-166.
9. Thomas Scanlon, What We Owe to Each Other (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998), p. 189.
10. Elizabeth Ashford, "The Demandingness of Scanlon's Contractualism," Ethics 113 (January 2003), p. 283.
11. Elizabeth Ashford, Ethics, Ibid., p. 276.
12. Earlier versions of this paper were read to the University of Tennessee Philosophy Department and to the American Philosophical Association. I thank both lively audiences. I especially thank Valerie Tiberius, my APA commentator, for very useful comments. I am also grateful for very helpful editorial suggestions from Thomas Magnell, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Value Inquiry.