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    Conflicts of Obligation

    In the preceding chapters of this book, I have introduced a variety of concepts of absolute (nonconditional) obligation. Among these are individual moral obligation, individual prudential obligation, social ob...

    Fred Feldman in Doing the Best We Can (1986)

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    A Theory of Moral Obligation

    The fundamental insight behind utilitarianism is that we ought to do the best we can. I think the intuition is worthy of serious attention, but its traditional formulations are unacceptable. In order to formul...

    Fred Feldman in Doing the Best We Can (1986)

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    Basic Iffy Oughts

    Some of the most interesting and challenging puzzles concerning the logic of ‘ought’-statements have to do with “iffy oughts” —sentences that contain an ‘if’ as well as an ‘ought’ (or appropriate equivalent te...

    Fred Feldman in Doing the Best We Can (1986)

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    Defeasible Commitment and Prima Facie Obligation

    The iffy oughts of ordinary language are a logically heterogeneous group. As we have seen, a given sentence with ‘if’ and ‘ought’ may express any of several different sorts of proposition. As I see it, this fa...

    Fred Feldman in Doing the Best We Can (1986)

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    What Ought to be

    Sometimes, instead of saying that a certain person ought to do a certain thing, we may say that a certain state of affairs ought to be, or ought to occur. For example, someone who is annoyed by loud motorcycle...

    Fred Feldman in Doing the Best We Can (1986)

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    Hare's proof

    Fred Feldman in Philosophical Studies (1984)

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    Obligations—Absolute, conditioned and conditional

    Fred Feldman in Philosophia (1983)

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    Final comments on the analysis of Warranting

    Fred Feldman in Synthese (1978)

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    On the analysis of warranting

    Fred Feldman in Synthese (1977)

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    World Utilitarianism

    Act utilitarianism, in some of its more popular forms, is often taken to be a perfectly straightforward doctrine. Critics of the doctrine frequently claim that, in certain cases at least, act utilitarianism is mo...

    Fred Feldman in Analysis and Metaphysics (1975)

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    Epistemic appraisal and the Cartesian Circle

    Fred Feldman in Philosophical Studies (1975)

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    Biogenetic Autonomy of Mitochondria and Its Limits

    The past ten years have seen such an almost explosive growth of efforts devoted to studies on mitochondrial biogenesis that they occupy at least as much contemporary journal space as do studies on mitochondria...

    Henry R. Mahler, Roberto N. Bastos, Fred Feldman, Urs Flury… in Membrane Biogenesis (1975)

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    Kripke's argument against materialism

    Fred Feldman in Philosophical Studies (1973)

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