As I have said before, I don't think go read the book is ever an appropriate response. One can choose not to participate, one can suggest books to be read, but I dislike the idea that one has to read the reading list before one can post a question to the friam list. But you all already know that.
N From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Robert Holmes Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2011 11:44 AM To: Owen Densmore Cc: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] The Grand Design, Philosophy is Dead, and Hubris 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 <o...@backspaces.net> 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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