Owen—I'm afraid that scientists & engineers like us have occasionally got to be on the receiving end of "go read the book" comments just as much as non-scientists who want to know about vortex formation...
The contemporary utilitarians who are writing about this stuff include Judith Lichtenberg, Michalel Slote and Michael Stocker. Ones with a more theoretical bent include Peter Railton, Samuel Scheffler and Shelly Kagan. Google Scholar has links to their work. —R P.S. "The paradigm case of consequentialism is utilitarianism" says http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consequentialism/. You many need to expand your search terms! On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 9:25 AM, Owen Densmore <[email protected]> wrote: > <snip> >> > Indeed, as far as I can tell .. and I have looked .. this form of thinking > is foreign to philosophers. > >
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