Against the Tyranny of Outcomes

Paul Hurley, Sexton Professor of Philosophy, Claremont McKenna College

Paul Hurley is the Sexton Professor of Philosophy at Claremont McKenna College, where he has been awarded the Huntoon and Senior Huntoon Teaching Awards. Paul has published articles in ethics and meta-ethics in Ethics, Mind, Philosophical Studies, Philosophers’ Imprint, Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics, Analytic Philosophy, The Journal of Ethics, and The Journal of Moral Philosophy. His recent work focuses on the central debate in normative ethics between consequentialists and their critics, and upon clarifying certain deep structural problems with the framing of this debate. An earlier book length contribution to this debate, Beyond Consequentialism, was published by Oxford University Press.