Consequentialism says that right or wrong depend on the consequences of an act, and that the more good consequences are produced, the better the act. The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy gives a ...

Ross Douthat does a very fair job of summarizing the Regnerus study on outcomes of gay parenting, and how that study can plausibly be used as the basis for arguments either for or against gay marriage ...

The Catholic world has heard a lot on the errors of consequentialism over the past few years. My friend and colleague Mark Shea, in his characteristically subtle way ...

Philosophical Studies: An International Journal for Philosophy in the Analytic Tradition, Vol. 173, No. 3 (March 2016), pp. 711-731 (21 pages) In his recent book, The Dimensions of Consequentialism, ...

Frank Jackson has put forward a famous thought experiment of a physician who has to decide on the correct treatment for her patient. Subjective consequentialism tells the physician to do what ...

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"I like him. He likes me," President Trump said of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at a recent campaign rally. "We would go back and forth, and then we fell in love." CBS journalist Leslie Stahl ...