I want to bring to the attention of our readers that Brad Hooker has responded to our original posts — see here, here, and here. […] Read More
Author: David Sobel
David Sobel works in ethics, practical reason, theory of value, and political philosophy. His book From Valuing to Value was published by OUP in 2016. He co-edits Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy. His dog is better than your dog.
According to Hooker’s version of rule-consequentialism (RC), the criterion of rightness is as follows: “An act is wrong if and only if it is forbidden […] Read More
I recently wrote a paper entitled “Why Most Moral Theories Are Deficient.” I welcome comments and criticisms. Here’s an abstract: “In this paper, I present […] Read More
This entry is the final installment of a three-part series on consequentializing non-consequentialist moral theories. As noted in Part I, a number of philosophers accept […] Read More
This entry is the second installment of a three-part series on consequentializing non-consequentialist moral theories. As noted in Part I, a number of philosophers accept […] Read More
A number of philosophers (e.g., Brown 2004, Dreier 1993, and Louise forthcoming) have hypothesized that most, if not all, non-consequentialist theories can be “consequentialized.” More […] Read More