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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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175Moral 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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386II*—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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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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83Acts 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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109Moral 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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43Rationality, rules, and utility: new essays on the moral philosophy of Richard B. Brandt (edited book)Westview Press. 1994.Scholars of ethics, and of human behavior more generally, will find this book consistently stimulating and rewarding.
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23Scanlon versus Moore on goodnessIn T. Horgan & M. Timmons (eds.), Metaethics after Moore, Oxford University Press. pp. 149-168. 2006.
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76Rule-consequentialism and obligations toward the needyPacific Philosophical Quarterly 79 (1). 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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234Williams' Argument against External ReasonsAnalysis 47 (1). 1987.A critical account arguing that Williams did not succeed in undermining the possibility of external reasons. Hooker takes Williams’s conception of reason to be instrumentalistic in a problematic way.
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46Griffin on Human RightsOxford Journal of Legal Studies 30 (1): 193-205. 2010.This review article considers James Griffin's book On Human Rights, which is an immensely important contribution to moral and political thought. The review article starts by explaining why Griffin thinks that the term ‘human right’ suffers from an unacceptable indeterminateness of sense, and then summarizes Griffin's objections to various prominent accounts of human rights. An outline of Griffin's own account of human rights follows. His theory grounds human rights in ‘personhood’ and practicali…Read more
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65Rule-Consequentialism, Incoherence, FairnessProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 95. 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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41Up and Down with AggregationSocial Philosophy and Policy 26 (1): 126-147. 2009.This paper starts by addressing some objections to the very idea of aggregate social good. The paper goes on to review the case for letting aggregate social good be not only morally relevant but also sometimes morally decisive. Then the paper surveys objections to letting aggregate social good determine personal or political decisions. The paper goes on to argue against the idea that aggregate good is sensitive to desert and the idea that aggregate good should be construed as incorporating agent…Read more
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30Dancy on How Reasons Are Related to OughtsSouthern Journal of Philosophy 41 (S1): 114-120. 2003.
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1011Rule-consequentialismMind 99 (393): 67-77. 1990.The theory of morality we can call full rule - consequentialism selects rules solely in terms of the goodness of their consequences and then claims that these rules determine which kinds of acts are morally wrong. George Berkeley was arguably the first rule -consequentialist. He wrote, “In framing the general laws of nature, it is granted we must be entirely guided by the public good of mankind, but not in the ordinary moral actions of our lives. … The rule is framed with respect to the good of …Read more
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