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23Feldman, Rule-consequentialism, and DesertIn Kris McDaniel, Jason R. Raibley, Richard Feldman & Michael J. Zimmerman (eds.), The Good, the Right, Life And Death: Essays in Honor of Fred Feldman, Ashgate. pp. 103-114. 2005.
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1Normative EthicsIn Hugh LaFollette - (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Ethical Theory, Blackwell. 2000.
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69Moral 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.This paper starts by characterising moral requirements and everyday thought. Then ways in which moral requirements shape everyday thought are identified, including the way internalised moral requirements prevent some possible actions from even being considered. The paper then explains that everyday moral thought might be structured by dispositions to which there are corresponding principles even if these principles do not usually appear in the conscious thoughts of agents while they are engaged …Read more
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4Impartiality, 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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97Review of Law's Rule: the Nature, Value, and Viability of the Rule of LawNotre Dame Philosophical Reviews. 2023.Book review of Postema's Law's Rule.
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297Rationality, Reasons, RulesIn Christoph C. Pfisterer, Nicole Rathgeb & Eva Schmidt (eds.), Wittgenstein and Beyond: Essays in Honour of Hans-Johann Glock, Routledge. pp. 275-290. 2022.H.-J. Glock has made important contributions to discussions of rationality, reasons, and rules. This chapter addresses four conceptions of rationality that Glock identifies. One of these conceptions of rationality is that rationality consists in responsiveness to reasons. This chapter goes on to consider the idea that reasons became prominent in normative ethics because of their usefulness in articulating moral pluralism. The final section of the chapter connects reasons and rules and contends t…Read more
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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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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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2012 Reflective Equilibrium and Rule ConsequentialismIn Brad Hooker, Elinor Mason, Dale E. Miller, D. W. Haslett, Shelly Kagan, Sanford S. Levy, David Lyons, Phillip Montague, Tim Mulgan, Philip Pettit, Madison Powers, Jonathan Riley, William H. Shaw, Michael Smith & Alan Thomas (eds.), Morality, Rules, and Consequences: A Critical Reader, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. pp. 222-238. 2000.
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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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Griffin on human rightsIn Roger Crisp (ed.), Griffin on Human Rights, Oxford University Press. 2014.
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90Deep personal relationships, value, merit, and changeRatio 35 (4): 344-351. 2022.A paper of Roger Crisp’s four years ago contained arguments that seemed to imply that having deep personal relationships does not constitute an element of well‐being. The lesson to draw from that paper of Crisp’s, according to a recent journal article of mine, is that one’s having a deep personal relationship does constitute an element of one’s well‐being on condition that one’s affection for the other person is merited. Crisp’s paper earlier in this issue of Ratio responds to my arguments. Here…Read more
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33Should Philosophical Reflection on Ethics Do Without Moral Concepts?Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 1-15. 2022.Roger Crisp, in his book Reasons and Goodness, argues in favour of de-moralizing our philosophical reflection on ethics. This paper begins by explaining what ‘de-moralizing’ means. Then the paper assesses Crisp’s argument for de-moralizing and puts forward arguments against de-moralizing.
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23Corrigendum to: Does Having Deep Personal Relationships Constitute an Element of Well-Being?Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 95 (1): 2-2. 2021.
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116Does Having Deep Personal Relationships Constitute an Element of Well-Being?Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 95 (1): 1-24. 2021.Deep personal relationships involve deep mutual understanding and strong mutual affection. This paper focuses on whether having deep personal relationships is one of the elements of well-being. Roger Crisp put forward thought experiments which might be taken to suggest that having deep personal relationships has only instrumental value as a means to other elements of well-being. The different conclusion this paper draws is that having deep personal relationships is an element of well-being if, b…Read more
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93Wrongness, evolutionary debunking, public rulesEtica & Politica / Ethics & Politics 18 (1): 135-149. 2016.Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek and Peter Singer’s wonderful book, The Point of View of the Universe: Sidgwick and Contemporary Ethics, contains a wealth of intriguing arguments and compelling ideas. The present paper focuses on areas of continuing dispute. The paper first attacks LazariRadek’s and Singer’s evolutionary debunking arguments against both egoism and parts of common-sense morality. The paper then addresses their discussion of the role of rules in utilitarianism. De Lazari-Radek and Singer…Read more
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9Right, wrong, and rule-consequentialismIn Henry West (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Mill's Utilitarianism, Wiley-blackwell. pp. 233-248. 2006.
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16Rule-consequentialismIn Russ Shafer-Landau (ed.), Ethical Theory: An Anthology, Wiley-blackwell. pp. 482-492. 2007.
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60The role(s) of rules in consequentialist ethicsIn Douglas W. Portmore (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Consequentialism, Oup Usa. 2020.After preliminaries concerning different accounts of the good and the distinction between actual-consequence consequentialism and expected-value consequentialism, this paper explains why consequentialists should prescribe a moral decision procedure dominated by rules. But act-consequentialists deny rules have a role in the criterion of moral rightness. Prescribing a decision procedure dominated by rules and then denying rules a role in the criterion of rightness can be problematic. Rule-conseque…Read more
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302Parfit's final arguments in normative ethicsIn J. McMahan, T. Campbell, J. Goodrich & K. Ramakrishnan (eds.), Principles and Persons: The Legacy of Derek Parfit, Oxford University Press. pp. 207-226. 2021.This paper starts by juxtaposing the normative ethics in the final part of Parfit's final book, On What Matters, vol. 3, with the normative ethics in his earlier books, Reasons and Persons and On What Matters, vol. 1. The paper then addresses three questions. The first is, where does the reflective-equilibrium methodology that Parfit endorsed in the first volume of On What Matters lead? The second is, is the Act-involving Act Consequentialism that Parfit considers in the final volume of On What …Read more
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896‘Moral Particularism: Wrong and Bad’In Brad Hooker & Margaret Olivia Little (eds.), Moral particularism, Oxford University Press. pp. 1-22. 2000.
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58Epistemic Virtues Versus Ethical Values in the Financial Services SectorJournal of Business Ethics 155 (1): 17-27. 2019.In his important recent book, Ethics and the Global Financial Crisis: Why Incompetence is Worse than Greed, Boudewijn de Bruin argues that a key element of the global financial crisis of 2007–2008 was a failure of epistemic virtue. To improve matters, then, de Bruin argues we need to focus on the acquisition and exercise of epistemic virtues, rather than to focus on a more ethical culture for banking per se. Whilst this is an interesting suggestion and it is indeed very plausible that an increas…Read more
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