Utilitas
- Utilitas / Volume / Issue 02 / July 2003, pp 237-247
- Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2003
- DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0953820800003976 (About DOI), Published online: 26 January 2009
Articles
Can Consequentialism Cover Everything?
Bart Streumera1
a1 Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, bs307@cam.ac.uk
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.
