The Rejection of Act-Consequentialism

Abstract

Of course, another option available to the act-consequentialist is to simply reject act-consequentialism. In the light of the demandingness problem and the sacrifice problem, and, perhaps most damaging of all, Kagan’s argument against cost-sensitive consequentialism (which I have argued backfires on the consequentialist), the consequentialist may be tempted to turn his back on act-consequentialism.