Outputs (12)

Rationality and the unit of action (2011)
Journal Article
Woodard, C. (2011). Rationality and the unit of action. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 2(2), https://doi.org/10.1007/s13164-011-0058-z

This paper examines the idea of an extended unit of action, which is the idea that the reasons for or against an individual action can depend on the qualities of a larger pattern of action of which it is a part. One concept of joint action is that... Read More about Rationality and the unit of action.

What Pedro could do
Book
Woodard, C. (2007). What Pedro could do. University of Nottingham

This paper discusses Bernard Williams's famous case of Jim and the Indians. It contrasts two ways of diagnosing the alleged errors of Act Utilitarianism in considering this case. One approach suggests that Act Utilitarianism fails to appreciate the i... Read More about What Pedro could do.