TY - JOUR
AU - McCarty, Richard
AB - The categorical imperative can be construed as a universalization test for moral permissibility. False negatives of the categorical imperative would be maxims failing this test, despite the permissibility of their actions; maxims like: Ill withdraw all my savings on April 15th. Examples of purported false negatives familiar from the literature can be grouped into three general categories, and dispatched by applying category-specific methods for proper formulation of their maxims, or for proper testing. Methods for reformulating failing maxims, such as the addition of appropriate conditional clauses, do not generate false-positive counterexamples in other instances.
TI - False Negatives of the Categorical Imperative
JF - Mind
DO - 10.1093/mind/fzu151
DA - 2015-01-17
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/false-negatives-of-the-categorical-imperative-ZnUMLiRcB6
SP - 177
EP - 200
VL - 124
IS - 493
DP - DeepDyve
ER -