Can Consequences Be Right-Makers?

This paper sets out a novel challenge to consequentialism as a theory in normative ethics. The challenge is rooted in the ontological claim that consequences of actions do not exist at the time required to be that in virtue of which actions are right or wrong, and so consequences cannot play the rol...

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Published in:	Philosophia Vol. 45; no. 1; pp. 185 - 206
Main Author:	Boulter, Stephen
Format:	Article
Published:	Springer Nature Mar2017
Subjects:	Consequentialism (Ethics) Ethics Plausibility (Logic) Natural law Presentism (Philosophy)
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