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9One central moral idea is that your doing some act is morally permissible only if others’ doing that act would also be morally permissible. There are a number of different ways of developing this idea. One is the suggestion that, before deciding to do some act, you should ask yourself ‘What if everyone did that?’ Another central moral idea is that it is immoral to ‘use’ people.
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6The Demands of Consequentialism, by Tim Mulgan. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2001, 313 pp. + vi,??35, $49.95 (hbk). ISBN 0-1-825093-2 (review)Philosophy 78 (2): 289-307. 2003.
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6American moral philosophyIn Cheryl Misak (ed.), The Oxford handbook of American philosophy, Oxford University Press. pp. 578-594. 2008.
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5Fairness, needs, and desertIn Matthew H. Kramer (ed.), The Legacy of H.L.A. Hart: Legal, Political, and Moral Philosophy, Oxford University Press. 2008.
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4The Meaning of Life: Subjectivism, Objectivism, and Divine SupportIn Samantha Vice & Nafsika Athanassoulis (eds.), The Moral Life: Essays in Honour of John Cottingham, Palgrave-macmillan. 2008.
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3Developing Deontology (edited book)Wiley. 2012.Developing Deontology consists of six new essays in ethicaltheory by leading contemporary moral philosophers. Each essayconsiders concepts prominent in the development of deontologicalapproaches to ethics, and these essays offer an invaluablecontribution to that development. Essays are contributed by Michael Smith, Philip Stratton-Lake,Ralph Wedgewood, David Owens, Peter Vallentyne, and ElizabethHarman - all leading contemporary moral philosophers Each essay offers an original and previously unp…Read more
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3Scanlon's Contractualism, the Spare Wheel Objection, and Aggregation'In Matt Matravers (ed.), Scanlon and Contractualism, Frank Cass. 2003.
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3Right, Wrong, and Rule‐ConsequentialismIn Henry West (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Mill's Utilitarianism, Wiley-blackwell. 2008.This chapter contains section titled: Introduction The Consequentialist Argument for Rule‐Consequentialism The Reflective Equilibrium Argument for Rule‐Consequentialism The Focus on Internalization of Rules The Majority of People in Each New Generation Expected rather than Actual Value of Rules Distribution Old Objections New Objections.
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2Impartiality, Predictability, and Indirect Consequentialism (edited book)Clarendon Press. 2000.This paper considers the question of whether impartiality and predictability are illusory to the extent that every consequentialist ethical theory must be hopeless.
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1Moral theory and its role in everyday moral thought and actionIn Aaron Zimmerman, Karen Jones & Mark Timmons (eds.), Routledge Handbook on Moral Epistemology, Routledge. 2018.
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1Self-interest, ethics, and the profit motiveIn Roger Crisp & Christopher Cowton (eds.), Business ethics: perspectives on the practice of theory, Oxford University Press. pp. 27--41. 1998.
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1Moral expertiseIn Edward Craig (ed.), Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Genealogy to Iqbal, Routledge. 1998.
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Up and down with aggregationIn Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred Dycus Miller & Jeffrey Paul (eds.), Utilitarianism: the aggregation question, Cambridge University Press. 2009.
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American moral philosophyIn Cheryl Misak (ed.), The Oxford handbook of American philosophy, Oxford University Press. 2008.
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Virtues and the Good. Does moral virtue constitute a benefit to the agent?In Roger Crisp (ed.), How Should One Live?: Essays on the Virtues, Oxford University Press. 1996.
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Intuitions and moral theorizingIn Philip Stratton-Lake (ed.), Ethical Intuitionism: Re-Evaluations, Oxford University Press. pp. 76--161. 2002.
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Griffin on human rightsIn Roger Crisp (ed.), Griffin on Human Rights, Oxford University Press. 2014.
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