So I was composing a reply to pressing comments from both Brad Hooker and Doug Portmore on the original post on this topic (which can […] Read More
Category: Discussions
There have been a number of very interesting and insightful comments on my original post about responsibility and identity (regarding the fission case). In order […] Read More
This is the second of a series of posts in which I try to make clear the different embedding difficulties that, as a family, are […] Read More
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
Brad Hooker Week on PEA Soup continues… In Chapter 8 of his Ideal Code, Real World, Hooker considers some ways of dealing with the problem […] Read More
In the last post, I asked, following Dave and Josh’s lead, whether Hooker’s notion of the costs of internalizing a moral code left him with […] Read More
It is taken to be a platitude that one person can’t be morally responsible for the actions of someone else (see, e.g., Ted Sider’s book […] Read More
Josh, Doug, Dave, Richard Rodewald, and I were discussing the last two chapters of Brad Hooker’s Ideal Code, Real World, in which Hooker goes to […] Read More
Lest our readers begin to think that this blog will turn out to be some sort of consequentialist love-fest, here’s something from the deontology corner […] Read More