Lesson test: Taking a position

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Taking a position

1.[3p]
Which of these are among the six recurring questions the lesson uses to locate a position?

Select all that apply

What makes an outcome good

Correct

Whether there are acts you may not perform even when they would make things go better

Correct

Whose interests count, and how much

Correct

Whether moral facts exist independently of attitudes

The answer is: What makes an outcome good, Whether there are acts you may not perform even when they would make things go better, Whose interests count, and how much

2.[3p]
Match each position to its answer on aggregation.

Act utilitarianism
Scanlonian contractualism
Kantian deontology
Rossian pluralism

settled by judgement between competing duties
full aggregation across persons
aggregation is not the basis of rightness
individualist, so complaints never sum

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Act utilitarianism: full aggregation across persons Scanlonian contractualism: individualist, so complaints never sum Kantian deontology: aggregation is not the basis of rightness Rossian pluralism: settled by judgement between competing duties

3.[3p]
Put the four elements of stating a view in the order the lesson gives them.

Name the scope
Name the priority ordering
Name what would refute it
Name the criterion

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a, b, c, d

4.[3p]
What price comes with biting the bullet on a counterexample?

You must supply a debunking account of the contrary intuition and accept the verdict in every similar case

Correct

You must abandon your criterion

The answer is: You must supply a debunking account of the contrary intuition and accept the verdict in every similar case

You must concede the argument

The answer is: You must supply a debunking account of the contrary intuition and accept the verdict in every similar case

You must accept every other counterexample too

The answer is: You must supply a debunking account of the contrary intuition and accept the verdict in every similar case

5.[3p]
Why is internal critique the most powerful technique against someone whose foundations differ?

It requires no shared foundation, only that they prefer consistency to inconsistency

Correct

It shows that their theory is false

The answer is: It requires no shared foundation, only that they prefer consistency to inconsistency

It appeals to what most people believe

The answer is: It requires no shared foundation, only that they prefer consistency to inconsistency

It avoids discussing cases

The answer is: It requires no shared foundation, only that they prefer consistency to inconsistency

6.[3p]
What is the main difficulty with maximising expected choiceworthiness?

There is no common scale on which the values of different theories can be compared

Correct

It ignores your credences in the theories

The answer is: There is no common scale on which the values of different theories can be compared

It always recommends the same act as my favourite theory

The answer is: There is no common scale on which the values of different theories can be compared

It cannot handle empirical uncertainty

The answer is: There is no common scale on which the values of different theories can be compared

7.[3p]
Under moral uncertainty, what does "avoid the worst" recommend?

Prefer options acceptable on every theory you take seriously, and require a strong case for one that is catastrophic on any live theory

Correct

Act on whichever theory you find most plausible

The answer is: Prefer options acceptable on every theory you take seriously, and require a strong case for one that is catastrophic on any live theory

Suspend judgement and do nothing

The answer is: Prefer options acceptable on every theory you take seriously, and require a strong case for one that is catastrophic on any live theory

Choose whichever option is cheapest

The answer is: Prefer options acceptable on every theory you take seriously, and require a strong case for one that is catastrophic on any live theory

8.[2p]
Where all the theories a reader takes seriously give the same verdict, that verdict is as well supported as anything in the subject.

True

Correct

False

The answer is: True

9.[3p]
What does it mean if nothing whatever would change someone's moral view?

They hold an allegiance rather than a view, and the argument cannot proceed

Correct

Their view is unusually well founded

The answer is: They hold an allegiance rather than a view, and the argument cannot proceed

They are a moral realist

The answer is: They hold an allegiance rather than a view, and the argument cannot proceed

They have reached reflective equilibrium

The answer is: They hold an allegiance rather than a view, and the argument cannot proceed

1.[3p] Which of these are among the six recurring questions the lesson uses to locate a position?

2.[3p] Match each position to its answer on aggregation.

3.[3p] Put the four elements of stating a view in the order the lesson gives them.

4.[3p] What price comes with biting the bullet on a counterexample?

5.[3p] Why is internal critique the most powerful technique against someone whose foundations differ?

6.[3p] What is the main difficulty with maximising expected choiceworthiness?

7.[3p] Under moral uncertainty, what does "avoid the worst" recommend?

8.[2p] Where all the theories a reader takes seriously give the same verdict, that verdict is as well supported as anything in the subject.

9.[3p] What does it mean if nothing whatever would change someone's moral view?

1.[3p]
Which of these are among the six recurring questions the lesson uses to locate a position?

2.[3p]
Match each position to its answer on aggregation.

3.[3p]
Put the four elements of stating a view in the order the lesson gives them.

4.[3p]
What price comes with biting the bullet on a counterexample?

5.[3p]
Why is internal critique the most powerful technique against someone whose foundations differ?

6.[3p]
What is the main difficulty with maximising expected choiceworthiness?

7.[3p]
Under moral uncertainty, what does "avoid the worst" recommend?

8.[2p]
Where all the theories a reader takes seriously give the same verdict, that verdict is as well supported as anything in the subject.

9.[3p]
What does it mean if nothing whatever would change someone's moral view?