Developing Deontology

Brad Hooker is a professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Reading, UK. He has been most closely associated with discussions of rule-consequentialism, although he has published papers on a wide variety of topics in ethical theory, including the idea that moral principles must be suitable for public acceptance. He is the author of Ideal Code, Real World: A Rule-Consequentialist Theory of Morality (2000) and the editor of Rationality, Rules, and Utility (1993), and Truth in Ethics (1997). Professor Hooker is an associate editor of Ratio and the editor-in-chief of Utilitas.

“The essays in Developing Deontologyare of high quality, and their richness and diversity means that a wide range of readers will find their pages much interesting.”  (The Philosophical Quarterly, 1 January 2014)“Every author offers us a highly insightful and clarifying contribution.”  (Ethical Perspectives, 1 September 2013)

• Notes on Contributors vi 1 Deontological Moral Obligations and Non-Welfarist Agent-Relative Values 1Michael Smith2 Recalcitrant Pluralism 15Philip Stratton-Lake3 Defending Double Effect 35Ralph Wedgwood4 The Possibility of Consent 53David Owens5 Enforcement Rights against Non-Culpable Non-Just Intrusion 73Peter Vallentyne6 Does Moral Ignorance Exculpate? 95Elizabeth HarmanIndex 121