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Creeping consequentialism and insidious economics, part III

By Dan Markel, Ethan Leib, Rick Garnett, Matt Bodie, Paul Horwitz , Steve Vladeck, and Orly Lobel

Thanks again to commentators for offering thoughtful responses to my last post.  Some reactions: 1. JP doubts the coherence of the distinction between consequentialism and nonconsequentialism.  And Aaron Williams suggests that calling something intrinsically wrong is "just dogma." These are familiar and understandable concerns.  To skeptics, nonconsequentialist arguments are either ipsi dixit, and less rigorous or less fully justified than consequentialist arguments; o read more

Full post as published by Prawfs on November 22, 2008 (boomark / email).