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Jim's Utilitarian Mission

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2009

C. L. Ten
C. L. Ten
Affiliation:
Monash University
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Philosophy , Volume 54 , Issue 208 , April 1979 , pp. 221 - 222
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1979

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References

1 This is the second episode of the story of Jim, first told by Williams, Bernard in ‘A Critique of Utilitarianism’, in J. J. C. Smart and Bernard Williams, Utilitarianism: For and Against (Cambridge), 1973, 98ff.Google Scholar The story is dedicated to J. J. C. Smart, who is really responsible, because his remarks triggered off the complex physical mechanism which produced it.

2 See Nielsen, Kai, ‘Against Moral Conservatism’, Ethics 82 (1971–1972), 222ff.Google Scholar