Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Between Act and Rule: The Consequentialism of G. E. Moore Chapter 3 The Educational Equivalence of Act and Rule Utilitarianism Chapter 4 Defending Rule Utilitarianism Chapter 5 Values, Obligations, and Saving Lives Chapter 6 The Moral Opacity of Utilitarianism Chapter 7 Global Consequentialism Chapter 8 Evaluative Focal Points Chapter 9 Hooker’s Use and Abuse of Reflective Equilibrium Chapter 10 Consequentialism and the Subversion of Pluralism Chapter 11 Why Rule Consequentialism is not Superior to Ross-style Pluralism Chapter 12 Ruling Out Rule Consequentialism Chapter 13 Reflective Equilibrium and Rule Consequentialism Chapter 14 Rule Consequentialism and the Value of Friendship

About the Author

Brad Hooker is professor of philosophy at the University of Reading. Elinor Mason is assistant professor of philosophy at Arizona State University. Dale E. Miller is assistant professor of philosophy at Old Dominion University.

Reviews

These essays provide the best available survey of rule consequentialism; they are original and of a very high standard. This book will be a major resource for moral philosophers and scholars of consequentialist ethics for some time to come.
*Paul Kelly, London School of Economics*