Persons & Values: Persons and Values: Selected Papers Volume II (Hardcover)

Former Reader in Philosophy and Fellow J L MacKie; Joan And Penelope MacKie; MacKie
Oxford University Press (UK)
9780198246787
0-19-824678-1

This collection of John Mackie's papers on personal identity and topics in moral and political philosophy, some of which have not previously been published, deal with such issues as: multiple personality;.

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the transcendental "I"; responsibility and language; aesthetic judgements; Sidgwick's pessimism; act-utiliarianism; right-based moral theories; cooperation, competition, and moral philosophy; universalization; rights, utility, and external costs; norms and dilemmas; Parfit's population paradox; and the combination of partially-ordered preferences.