rule-consequentialism

But rule-consequentialism goes beyond Rossian pluralism by specifying an underlying unifying principle that provides impartial justification for such rules.

Rule Consequentialism Hooker, Brad 2008

Thus, full rule-consequentialism claims that an act is morally wrong if and only if it is forbidden by rules justified by their consequences.

Rule Consequentialism Hooker, Brad 2008

Most importantly, rule-consequentialist assessment of codes needs to avoid giving weight directly or indirectly to moral ideas that have their source in other moral theories but not in rule-consequentialism itself.

Rule Consequentialism Hooker, Brad 2008

But if rule-consequentialism operates this way, then in practice it will end up requiring the very same acts that act-consequentialism requires.

Rule Consequentialism Hooker, Brad 2008

Yet the second way of arguing for rule-consequentialism runs into another and quite different objection.

Rule Consequentialism Hooker, Brad 2008

Because rule-consequentialism implies this, rule-consequentialism escapes collapse into practical equivalence to act-consequentialism.

Rule Consequentialism Hooker, Brad 2008

And early formulations of rule-consequentialism did indeed explicitly mention compliance.

Rule Consequentialism Hooker, Brad 2008

Hence, if full rule-consequentialism claims that an act is wrong if and only if the foreseeable consequences of rules allowing that act are sub-optimal, rule-consequentialism cannot hold that an act is wrong if and only if the actual consequences of rules allowing that act will be sub-optimal.

Rule Consequentialism Hooker, Brad 2008

The answer to this objection is that rule-consequentialism endorses a rule requiring one to prevent disaster, even if doing so requires breaking other rules (Brandt 1992, 87-8, 150-1, 156-7).

Rule Consequentialism Hooker, Brad 2008

As long as the old objections to rule-consequentialism held sway, philosophers were not interested in new objections to the theory.

Rule Consequentialism Hooker, Brad 2008