Defending Double Effect

In Brad Hooker (ed.), Developing Deontology. Malden, MA: Wiley. pp. 35–52 (2012)
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This essay defends a version of the Doctrine of Double Effect (DDE) – the doctrine that there is normally a stronger reason against an act that has a bad state of affairs as one of its intended effects than against an otherwise similar act that has that bad state of affairs as an unintended effect. First, a precise account of this version of the DDE is given. Secondly, some suggestions are made about why we should believe the DDE, and about why it is true. Finally, a solution is developed to the so-called ‘closeness problem’ that any version of the DDE must face.

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9781118368794   9781444361940

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10.1002/9781118368794.ch3

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