Urmson

Urmson himself wrote ˜As a member of the very last generation of undergraduates to attend Prichard's lectures and informal instruction, I learnt to admire his patience as a teacher, his philosophical acuity and, above all, his quite exceptional intellectual honesty and independence.™

Harold Arthur Prichard Dancy, Jonathan 2009

Urmson argued that a morally significant class of actions, to which he referred as saintly and heroic (such as throwing oneself on an exploding hand grenade in order to save the lives of others), does not fall under any of these categories.

How to Kill a Missionary 2009

Some notable rule utilitarians are Urmson (1953), Brandt (1959),

Transport: a Flash-Fiction Triptych 2009

This view of supererogation locates it in the open-ended dimension of morality, that of ideals rather than principles, what Urmson calls “the higher flights or morality” and Bergson “the morality of aspiration.”

How to Kill a Missionary 2009

Rule-consequentialism was not clearly formulated until Urmson 1953 and Brandt 1959.

Rule Consequentialism Hooker, Brad 2008

Urmson claims that we can make sense of an action's tendency to produce good or bad consequences only as a claim about what is true of a class or type of actions.

Mill's Moral and Political Philosophy Brink, David 2007

But Urmson does not appeal only to the Proportionality Doctrine to support his rule utilitarian interpretation.

Mill's Moral and Political Philosophy Brink, David 2007

This has been attempted by arguing that such descriptions are shorthand for purely sonic features (Urmson 1973), basic dynamic features (Hanslick 1986) or purely musical features

The Philosophy of Music Kania, Andrew 2007

With colleagues he was “tolerant (and) uncensorious” (Warnock, xiv), but in philosophical debate he could turn into a formidable opponent, expressing an intense dislike of pomposity, pretence and jargon (Urmson, 271; Gallop, 228).

Gilbert Ryle Tanney, Julia 2007

But, perhaps surprisingly, Urmson also appeals to the Proportionality Doctrine as requiring a rule utilitarian interpretation of Mill.

Mill's Moral and Political Philosophy Brink, David 2007