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41Developing Deontology: New Essays in Ethical Theory (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 2012._Developing Deontology_ consists of six new essays in ethical theory by leading contemporary moral philosophers. Each essay considers concepts prominent in the development of deontological approaches to ethics, and these essays offer an invaluable contribution to that development. Essays are contributed by Michael Smith, Philip Stratton-Lake, Ralph Wedgewood, David Owens, Peter Vallentyne, and Elizabeth Harman - all leading contemporary moral philosophers Each essay offers an original and previo…Read more
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56Sacrificing for the Good of Strangers—Repeatedly (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 59 (1): 177. 1999.
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190Moral theory and its role in everyday moral thought and actionIn Aaron Zimmerman, Karen Jones & Mark Timmons (eds.), Routledge Handbook on Moral Epistemology, Routledge. pp. 387-400. 2018.The chapter juxtaposes the fairly quick and automatic thinking and decision making that constitutes everyday moral thought and action with the slower, more complicated, and more reflective thinking that steps beyond everyday moral thought. Various difficulties that can slow down everyday moral thought are catalogued in this paper. The paper explains how dealing with many of these difficulties leads to thinking about moral principles. And, even where there are not such difficulties, everyday mora…Read more
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70What makes a judgement a moral judgementJournal of Political Theory and Philosophy 1 (1): 97-112. 2017.What distinguishes moral judgements from judgements of other kinds? In addressing this question, this paper tries to remain as neutral as possible about which moral judgments are correct. The paper addresses objections to thinking that the defining feature of moral judgements is their other-regarding grounds, or their social function, or their motivational force, or their connection to reactive attitudes such as guilt, indignation, and resentment. The proposal this paper makes is that a judgment…Read more
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401II*—Rule-Consequentialism, Incoherence, Fairness1Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 95 (1): 19-36. 1995.Brad Hooker; II*—Rule-Consequentialism, Incoherence, Fairness1, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 95, Issue 1, 1 June 1995, Pages 19–36, https://d.
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16Rule‐Consequentialism and Obligations Toward the NeedyPacific Philosophical Quarterly 79 (1): 19-33. 1998.Most of us believe morality requires us to help the desperately needy. But most of us also believe morality doesn't require us to make enormous sacrifices in order to help people who have no special connection with us. Such self‐sacrifice is of course praiseworthy, but it isn't morally mandatory. Rule‐consequentialism might seem to offer a plausible grounding for such beliefs. Tim Mulgan has recently argued in Analysis and Pacific Philosophical Quarterly that rule‐consequentialism cannot do so. …Read more
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19Brad Hooker, Ideal Code, Real World: A Rule-Consequentialist Theory of Morality (review)Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 7 (1): 91-94. 2004.
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42Contractualism, spare wheel, aggregationIn Matt Matravers (ed.), Scanlon and Contractualism, Frank Cass Publishers. pp. 53-76. 2003.
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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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2403The Elements of Well-BeingJournal of Practical Ethics 3 (1): 15-35. 2015.This essay contends that the constitutive elements of well-being are plural, partly objective, and separable. The essay argues that these elements are pleasure, friendship, significant achievement, important knowledge, and autonomy, but not either the appreciation of beauty or the living of a morally good life. The essay goes on to attack the view that elements of well-being must be combined in order for well-being to be enhanced. The final section argues against the view that, because anything …Read more
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17E. E. Constance Jones was a student of Henry Sidgwick's. Her article is mainly about the idea that there are ‘two supreme principles of human action, both of which we are under a “manifest obligation” to obey.’ One is the principle of Rational Benevolence and the other is the principle of Rational Self-Love. Jones contends that ‘Rational Benevolence implies or includes the Rationality of Self-Love’. There is one reading of Jones's contention that makes it undeniable but other readings that make …Read more
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28Right, wrong, and rule-consequentialismIn Henry West (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Mill's Utilitarianism, Wiley-blackwell. pp. 233-248. 2008.
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62Theories of welfare, theories of good reasons for action, and ontological naturalismPhilosophical Papers 20 (1): 25-36. 1991.No abstract
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15Review of Nicholas Rescher, Fairness: Theory and Practice of Distributive Justice (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2003 (8). 2003.
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97Thinking about reasons: themes from the philosophy of Jonathan Dancy (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2013.Thinking about Reasons collects fourteen new essays on ethics and the philosophy of action, inspired by the work of Jonathan Dancy—one of his generation's most influential moral philosophers.
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162When is Impartiality Morally Appropriate?In Brian Feltham & John Cottingham (eds.), Partiality and Impartiality: Morality, Special Relationships, and the Wider World, Oxford University Press. pp. 26-41. 2010.With respect to morality, the term ‘impartiality’ is used to refer to quite different things. My paper will focus on three: 1. Impartial application of good (first-order) moral rules 2. Impartial benevolence as the direct guide to decisions about what to do 3. Impartial assessment of (first-order) moral rules What are the relations among these three? Suppose there was just one good (first-order) moral rule, namely, that one should choose whatever one thinks will maximize aggregate good. If there…Read more
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225Ideal Code, Real World: A Rule-Consequentialist Theory of MoralityOxford University Press UK. 2000.What are appropriate criteria for assessing a theory of morality? In Ideal Code, Real World, Brad Hooker begins by answering this question, and then argues for a rule-consequentialist theory. According to rule-consequentialism, acts should be assessed morally in terms of impartially justified rules, and rules are impartially justified if and only if the expected overall value of their general internalization is at least as great as for any alternative rules. In the course of developing his rule-…Read more
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369FairnessEthical Theory and Moral Practice 8 (4). 2005.The main body of this paper assesses a leading recent theory of fairness, a theory put forward by John Broome. I discuss Broome's theory partly because of its prominence and partly because I think it points us in the right direction, even if it takes some missteps. In the course of discussing Broome's theory, I aim to cast light on the relation of fairness to consistency, equality, impartiality, desert, rights, and agreements. Indeed, before I start assessing Broome's theory, I discuss two very …Read more
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175Rule-consequentialism and internal consistency: A reply to cardUtilitas 19 (4): 514-519. 2007.Rule-consequentialism has been accused of either collapsing into act-consequentialism or being internally inconsistent. I have tried to develop a form of rule-consequentialism without these flaws. In this June's issue of Utilitas, Robert Card argued that I have failed. Here I assess his arguments
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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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14Contractualism, spare wheel, aggregationCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 5 53-76. 2002.
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104Procedural and substantive practical rationalityIn Piers Rawling & Alfred R. Mele (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Rationality, Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 57--74. 2003.This chapter surveys the debate between philosophers who claim that all practical rationality is procedural and philosophers who claim that some practical rationality is substantive.
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79The demands of consequentialism, by Tim Mulgan. Oxford: Clarendon press, 2001, 313 pp. + VI, ??35, $49.95 (hbk). ISBN 0-1-825093- (review)Philosophy 78 (2): 289-307. 2003.
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97Acts or rules? The fine tuning of utilitarianismIn John Perry (ed.), God, the Good, and Utilitarianism: Perspectives on Peter Singer, Cambridge University Press. pp. 125-138. 2014.
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110Moral particularism and the real worldIn Mark Norris Lance, Matjaž Potrč & Vojko Strahovnik (eds.), Challenging Moral Particularism, Routledge. pp. 12--30. 2007.The term ‘moral particularism’ has been used to refer to different doctrines. The main body of this paper begins by identifying the most important doctrines associated with the term, at least as the term is used by Jonathan Dancy, on whose work I will focus. I then discuss whether holism in the theory of reasons supports moral particularism, and I call into question the thesis that particular judgements have epistemological priority over general principles. Dancy’s recent book Ethics without Pri…Read more
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