{"id":1199,"date":"2019-02-12T11:33:28","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T16:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/springconference\/?p=1199"},"modified":"2019-02-12T11:33:28","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T16:33:28","slug":"doing-good-vs-being-a-do-gooder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/springconference\/2019\/doing-good-vs-being-a-do-gooder\/","title":{"rendered":"Doing good vs being a do-gooder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Gordon Davis (Associate Professor, Philosophy), the concept of what is \u201cgood\u201d figures in phrases like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cthe good life\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cfeels good\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201ca good explanation\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201ca good researcher\u201d<\/li>\n<li>and \u201cdoing good\u201d (or more sceptically, \u201cdo-gooder\u201d)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Is this one concept or many? And, in the last of these usages, do we see evidence that the fundamental meaning of &#8220;good&#8221; is tied to the idea of a well-formed (if not moral) intention? Or is the goodness of intentions in some sense derivative from the goodness of consequences? And would this be the intended consequences of intended acts, or actual consequences?<\/p>\n<p>In his presentation <em>Counting consequences while \u201cdoing good,\u201d<\/em> Gordon will address these and related questions that connect an underlying\u2014and often misunderstood\u2014notion, that of &#8220;normativity,&#8221; to both ethics and epistemology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Gordon Davis (Associate Professor, Philosophy), the concept of what is \u201cgood\u201d figures in phrases like: \u201cthe good life\u201d \u201cfeels good\u201d \u201ca good explanation\u201d \u201ca good researcher\u201d and \u201cdoing good\u201d (or more sceptically, \u201cdo-gooder\u201d) Is this one concept or many? And, in the last of these usages, do we see evidence that the fundamental [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26,24,25],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Doing 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