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Blameless Wrongdoing and Agglomeration: A Response to Streumer

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 June 2005

CAMPBELL BROWN
Affiliation:
Australian National University, cbrown@coombs.anu.edu.au

Abstract

Bart Streumer argues that a certain variety of consequentialism – he calls it ‘semi-global consequentialism’ – is false on account of its falsely implying the possibility of ‘blameless wrongdoing’. This article shows (i) that Streumer's argument is nothing new; (ii) that his presentation of the argument is misleading, since it suppresses a crucial premiss, commonly called ‘agglomeration’; and (iii) that, for all Streumer says, the proponent of semi-global consequentialism may easily resist his argument by rejecting agglomeration.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 2005 Cambridge University Press

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