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1. Introduction 1. Introduction
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2. Consequentialist Treatments of Decision Procedures and Motives 2. Consequentialist Treatments of Decision Procedures and Motives
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3. Global Consequentialism 3. Global Consequentialism
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3.1. Axiological and Deontic Assessment 3.1. Axiological and Deontic Assessment
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3.2. Roles 3.2. Roles
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3.3. Formulating Global Consequentialism 3.3. Formulating Global Consequentialism
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3.4. The Incorrect Verdicts Objection, Again 3.4. The Incorrect Verdicts Objection, Again
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4. The Inconsistency Objection 4. The Inconsistency Objection
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4.1. A First Pass 4.1. A First Pass
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4.2. Making the Inconsistency Objection Precise 4.2. Making the Inconsistency Objection Precise
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4.3. Actualism, Possibilism, and the Inconsistency Objection 4.3. Actualism, Possibilism, and the Inconsistency Objection
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5. Advantages of Global over Act Consequentialism 5. Advantages of Global over Act Consequentialism
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Acknowledgments Acknowledgments
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References References
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22 Global Consequentialism
Get accessHilary Greaves is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford and the Director of the Global Priorities Institute. Her current research focuses on moral philosophy, specifically global prioritization, consequentialism, interpersonal aggregation, population ethics, effective altruism, moral uncertainty, and epistemology. http://users.ox.ac.uk/~mert2255/
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Published:08 October 2020
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Abstract
Many types of things are arguably appropriate objects of deontic moral assessment: not only acts but also decision procedures, character traits, motives, public moral codes, and so on. Global consequentialism recommends, for every type that is an appropriate object of deontic assessment at all, that we assess items of that type in terms of their consequences. This (and not simple act consequentialism alone) seems to be roughly the kind of consequentialist thesis that real-life consequentialists, both past and present, have generally been sympathetic to. In this chapter, I articulate a thesis along these lines and defend the thesis in question against the most common objection it faces (“the inconsistency objection”). I discuss the extent to which “going global” deals satisfactorily with three standard objections to act consequentialism: the incorrect verdicts objection, the self-defeatingness objection, and the silence objection. I conclude that global consequentialism has adequate responses to all of these objections, but that it is unclear whether global consequentialism is superior to an account that simply stresses the importance of global axiological assessment.
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