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Almeida, Michael J., 1992, “The Paradoxes of Feldman’s Neo-Utilitarianism”, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 70(4): 455–468. doi:10.1080/00048409212345331 (Scholar)
Åqvist, Lennart, 1969, “Improved Formulations of Act-Utilitarianism”, Noûs, 3(3): 299. doi:10.2307/2214553 (Scholar)
Baker, Derek, 2012, “Knowing Yourself–And Giving Up On Your Own Agency In The Process”, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 90(4): 641–656. doi:10.1080/00048402.2011.617761 (Scholar)
Bales, Eugene, 1972, “Utilitarianism, Overall Obligatoriness and Deontic Logic”, Analysis, 32(6): 203–205. doi:10.1093/analys/32.6.203 (Scholar)
Bergström, Lars, 1966, The Alternatives and Consequences of Actions: An Essay on Certain Fundamental Notions in Teleological Ethics, Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell. (Scholar)
–––, 1968a, “Discussion: Alternatives and Utilitarianism”, Theoria, 34(2): 163–170. doi:10.1111/j.1755-2567.1968.tb00348.x (Scholar)
–––, 1968b, “Utilitarianism and Deontic Logic”, Analysis, 29(2): 43–44. doi:10.1093/analys/29.2.43 (Scholar)
–––, 1971, “Utilitarianism and Alternative Actions”, Noûs, 5(3): 237. doi:10.2307/2214666 (Scholar)
–––, 1973, “On the Coherence of Act-Utilitarianism”, Analysis, 33(3): 98–102. doi:10.1093/analys/33.3.98 (Scholar)
–––, 1976, “On the Formulation and Application of Utilitarianism”, Noûs, 10(2): 121–144. doi:10.2307/2214572 (Scholar)
Brown, Campbell, 2018, “Maximalism and the Structure of Acts”, Noûs, 52(4): 752–771. doi:10.1111/nous.12181 (Scholar)
Bykvist, Krister, 2002, “Alternative Actions and the Spirit of Consequentialism”, Philosophical Studies, 107(1): 45–68. doi:10.1023/a:1013191909430 (Scholar)
Cariani, Fabrizio, 2016, “Consequence and Contrast in Deontic Semantics”, Journal of Philosophy, 113(8): 396–416. doi:10.5840/jphil2016113826 (Scholar)
Carlson, Erik, 1995, Consequentialism Reconsidered, Dordrecht: Kluwer. (Scholar)
–––, 1999, “Consequentialism, Alternatives, and Actualism”, Philosophical Studies, 96(3): 253–268. doi:10.1023/a:1004239306956 (Scholar)
Castañeda, Hector-Neri, 1968, “A Problem for Utilitarianism”, Analysis, 28(4): 141–142. doi:10.1093/analys/28.4.141 (Scholar)
–––, 1969, “Ought, Value, and Utilitarianism”, American Philosophical Quarterly, 6(4): 257–275. (Scholar)
–––, 1972, “On the Problem of Formulating a Coherent Act-Utilitarianism”, Analysis, 32(4): 118–124. doi:10.1093/analys/32.4.118 (Scholar)
Cohen, Yishai and Travis Timmerman, 2016, “Actualism Has Control Issues”, Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, 10(3): 1–19. doi:10.26556/jesp.v10i3.104 (Scholar)
Curran, Angela, 1995, “Utilitarianism and Future Mistakes: Another Look”, Philosophical Studies, 78(1): 71–85. doi:10.1007/bf00989819 (Scholar)
Feldman, Fred, 1986, Doing the Best We Can, Boston: D. Reidel Publishing Company. (Scholar)
Gauthier, David, 1994, “Assure and Threaten”, Ethics, 104(4): 690–721. doi:10.1086/293651 (Scholar)
Goldman, Holly S. [Holly M. Smith], 1976, “Dated Rightness and Moral Imperfection”, The Philosophical Review, 85(4): 449. doi:10.2307/2184275 (Scholar)
–––, 1978, “Doing the Best One Can”, in Values and Morals: Essays in Honor of William Frankena, Charles Stevenson, and Richard Brandt, Alvin I. Goldman and Jaegwon Kim (eds.), Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 185–214. doi:10.1007/978-94-015-7634-5_11 (Scholar)
Greenspan, P. S., 1975, “Conditional Oughts and Hypothetical Imperatives”, Journal of Philosophy, 72(10): 259–276. doi:10.2307/2024734 (Scholar)
–––, 1978, “Oughts and Determinism: A Response to Goldman”, The Philosophical Review, 87(1): 77–83. doi:10.2307/2184348 (Scholar)
Gustafsson, Johan E., 2014, “Combinative Consequentialism and the Problem of Act Versions”, Philosophical Studies, 167(3): 585–596. doi:10.1007/s11098-013-0114-x (Scholar)
Jackson, Frank, 1985, “On the Semantics and Logic of Obligation”, Mind, 94(374): 177–195. doi:10.1093/mind/xciv.374.177 (Scholar)
–––, 2014, “Procrastinate Revisited”, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 95(4): 634–647. doi:10.1111/papq.12051 (Scholar)
Jackson, Frank and Robert Pargetter, 1986, “Oughts, Options, and Actualism”, The Philosophical Review, 95(2): 233–255. doi:10.2307/2185591 (Scholar)
Humberstone, I. L., 1983, “The Background of Circumstances”, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 64(1): 19–34. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0114.1983.tb00181.x (Scholar)
Kiesewetter, Benjamin, 2018, “Contrary-to-Duty Scenarios, Deontic Dilemmas, and Transmission Principles”, Ethics, 129(1): 98–115. doi:10.1086/698734 (Scholar)
Lehrer, Keith, 1968, “Cans without Ifs”, Analysis, 29(1): 29–32. doi:10.1093/analys/29.1.29 (Scholar)
Lewis, David K., 1973, Counterfactuals, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers and Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1973. Reprinted with revisions, 1986. (Scholar)
Louise, Jennie, 2009, “I Won’t Do It! Self-Prediction, Moral Obligation and Moral Deliberation”, Philosophical Studies, 146(3): 327–348. doi:10.1007/s11098-008-9258-5 (Scholar)
McClennen, Edward F., 1990, Rationality and Dynamic Choice: Foundational Explorations, New York: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
McKinsey, Michael, 1979, “Levels of Obligation”, Philosophical Studies, 35(4): 385–395. doi:10.1007/bf00368053 (Scholar)
Portmore, Douglas W., 2011, Commonsense Consequentialism: Wherein Morality Meets Rationality, New York: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199794539.001.0001 (Scholar)
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–––, 2018, “Maximalism and Moral Harmony”, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 96(2): 318–341. doi:10.1111/phpr.12304 (Scholar)
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Timmerman, Travis, 2015, “Does Scrupulous Securitism Stand-up to Scrutiny? Two Problems for Moral Securitism and How We Might Fix Them”, Philosophical Studies, 172(6): 1509–1528. doi:10.1007/s11098-014-0362-4 (Scholar)
Timmerman, Travis and Yishai Cohen, 2016, “Moral Obligations: Actualist, Possibilist, or Hybridist?”, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 94(4): 672–686. doi:10.1080/00048402.2016.1140789 (Scholar)
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