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Brad Hooker

Disciplines:
ethics

Summary

British philosopher who has developed and defended rule consequentialism — the best systematic account of the relationship between consequentialist reasoning and common-sense moral rules.

Core Contribution

Ideal Code, Real World: rule consequentialism — an action is right if it accords with rules whose general acceptance would produce the best consequences. Defends the view against the objection that rule consequentialism collapses into act consequentialism at the ideal rule level.

Notable Works & Achievements

Ideal Code, Real World

Historical Influences

Richard Brandt Derek Parfit

Intellectual Lineage

Analytic Ethics

Contemporaries & Peers

Philip Pettit Samuel Scheffler

Minds Influenced

No recorded minds influenced.

Intellectual Posterity

Rule Consequentialism

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