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David Lyons

Georgia State University
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  • Georgia State University
    Graduate student
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
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  • The legal entrenchment of illegality
    In Matthew H. Kramer (ed.), The legacy of H.L.A. Hart: legal, political, and moral philosophy, Oxford University Press. 2008.
    Philosophy of LawThe Nature of Law and Legal Systems
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    Morality, Rules, and Consequences: A Critical Reader (edited book)
    with Brad Hooker, Elinor Mason, Dale E. Miller, D. W. Haslett, Shelly Kagan, Sanford S. Levy, Phillip Montague, Tim Mulgan, Philip Pettit, Madison Powers, Jonathan Riley, William H. Shaw, Michael Smith, and Alan Thomas
    Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2000.
    What determines whether an action is right or wrong? Morality, Rules, and Consequences: A Critical Reader explores for students and researchers the relationship between consequentialist theory and moral rules. Most of the chapters focus on rule consequentialism or on the distinction between act and rule versions of consequentialism. Contributors, among them the leading philosophers in the discipline, suggest ways of assessing whether rule consequentialism could be a satisfactory moral theory. Th…Read more
    What determines whether an action is right or wrong? Morality, Rules, and Consequences: A Critical Reader explores for students and researchers the relationship between consequentialist theory and moral rules. Most of the chapters focus on rule consequentialism or on the distinction between act and rule versions of consequentialism. Contributors, among them the leading philosophers in the discipline, suggest ways of assessing whether rule consequentialism could be a satisfactory moral theory. These essays, all of which are previously unpublished, provide students in moral philosophy with essential material and ask key questions on just what the criteria for an adequate moral theory might be.
    Act- and Rule-Consequentalism
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    Review of Rosen's classical utilitarianism from Hume to mill (review)
    Utilitas 18 (2): 173-181. 2006.
    UtilitarianismHume: Normative Ethics
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    5 The Moral Opacity of Utilitarianism
    In 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. 105-120. 2000.
    Utilitarianism
  • 1O Ethical Relativism and the Problem of Incoherence
    In Paul K. Moser (ed.), Moral Relativism: A Reader. pp. 127. 2000.
    Relativism
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    Open texture and the Possibility of Legal Interpretation
    Law and Philosophy 18 (3): 297-309. 1999.
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    Philosophy of Law
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