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Sidgwick's Philosophical Intuitions

2008· article· en· W2142322623 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueOpenstarTs (Univeristy of Trieste https://www.units.it/) · 2008
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicPhilosophical Ethics and Theory
Canadian institutionsWestern University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsUtilitarianismPhilosophyMoralityEpistemologyArgument (complex analysis)IntuitionismIntuitionInternalism and externalism
DOInot available

Abstract

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Sidgwick famously claimed that an argument in favour of utilitarianism might be provided
\nby demonstrating that a set of defensible philosophical intuitions undergird it. This paper
\nfocuses on those philosophical intuitions. It aims to show which specific intuitions Sidgwick
\nendorsed, and to shed light on their mutual connections. It argues against many rival
\ninterpretations that Sidgwick maintained that six philosophical intuitions constitute the selfevident
\ngrounds for utilitarianism, and that those intuitions appear to be specifications of a
\nnegative principle of universalization (according to which differential treatments must be
\nbased on reasonable grounds alone). In addition, this paper attempts to show how the
\nintuitions function in the overall argument for utilitarianism. The suggestion is that the
\nintuitions are the main positive part of the argument for the view, which includes Sidgwick's
\nrejection of common-sense morality and its philosophical counterpart, dogmatic intuitionism.
\nThe paper concludes by arguing that some of Sidgwick's intuitions fail to meet the conditions
\nfor self-evidence which Sidgwick himself established and applied to the rules of common-sense
\nmorality.

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metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Science and technology studies, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesScience and technology studies, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.792
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0020.004
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0100.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.128
GPT teacher head0.260
Teacher spread0.132 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it