Abstract
Derek Parfit, Philip Pettit, and Michael Smith defend a version of consequentialism that covers everything. I argue that this version of consequentialism is false. Consequentialism, I argue, can only cover things that belong to a combination of things that agents can bring about.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
Sociology and Political Science,Philosophy
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