Consequentializing

Philosophy Compass 4 (2):329-347 (2009)
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A growing trend of thought has it that any plausible nonconsequentialist theory can be consequentialized, which is to say that it can be given a consequentialist representation. In this essay, I explore both whether this claim is true and what its implications are. I also explain the procedure for consequentializing a nonconsequentialist theory and give an account of the motivation for doing so.

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10.1111/j.1747-9991.2009.00198.x

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