Academic

Portmore on Hooker on Rule Consequentialism

By Lawrence Solum

Douglas Portmore has posted Rule-Consequentialism and Irrelevant Others on the web. Here is an abstract:

In this paper, I argue that Brad Hooker?s rule-consequentialism implausibly makes what Earthlings are morally required to do for the sake of aiding their fellow Earthlings depend on whether or not people exist on some far-off distant planet even when the inhabitants of that planet are so far away that it is physically impossible for Earthlings to have any effect on their lives.

Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on March 03, 2008 (boomark / email).