
Brad Hooker
Reading RG6 6AA
UK
Education
Oxford D.Phil., philosophy, 1986.
Princeton A.B., Magna Cum Laude in philosophy, 1980.
Employment
Visiting Lecturer on Moral Philosophy, Oxford, winter 2002, winter 2003
University of Reading 1993–
Associate Professor with tenure, Virginia Commonwealth University, 1992–3
Assistant Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University, 1986–2
External Positions
• President of the British Philosophical Association, 2006–9
• Panel member of the UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council’s Postgraduate Awards Panel for Philosophy, 2005-2007. This Panel awards nearly all British-government-funded Postgraduate Studentships (i.e. scholarships) in Philosophy.
• Elected member of the Executive Committee of British Philosophical Association, 2003-9.
• Editorial Board, Ethics, 2007–
• Advisory Council, Institute for Philosophy, University of London, 2007–
• Board of Advisors, Open University, Ethics Centre, 2007–
• Board of Advisors, University of Leeds, Inter-Disciplinary Ethics Centre, 2005–
• Member of the Bentham Committee, University College London, 2004–
• Organizer of 2002 conference for British Society for Ethical Theory, 2002
• Constitutional Drafting Committee, British Philosophical Association, 2001–2
• Member of Editorial Board, Politics, Philosophy, and Economics, 2001–
• Member of Editorial Board, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2001–
• Member, the Quality Assurance Agency’s Benchmarking Committee for Philosophy, 1999–2000
• Member of the Executive Committee of the Mind Association, 1998–2005, Honorary Secretary 2001–5. The Mind Association owns the journal Mind.
• Assistant Editor, Utilitas, 1997–
• Executive Committee, International Society for Utilitarian Studies, 1997–
• Member of Executive Committee, British Society for Ethical Theory, 1997–2008
• Associate Editor of Ratio, 1993–
Book
Ideal Code, Real World: A Rule-Consequentialist Theory of Morality (Oxford University Press, 2000) 213 pp. In UK In USA
Edited or Co-edited books
1. Special Issue of Ethical Theory and Moral Practice (vol. 6, no. 2, 2003) 102 pp.
2. Moral Particularism, co-editor with Margaret Little (Oxford University Press, 2000) 332 pp.
3. Morality, Rules, and Consequences: A Critical Reader, co-editor with Elinor Mason and Dale E. Miller (Edinburgh University Press, 2000; Rowman and Littlefield, 2000) 260 pp.
4. Well-Being and Morality: Essays in Honour of James Griffin, co-editor with Roger Crisp, (Oxford University Press, 2000) 316 pp.
5. Special issue of journal Ethical Theory and Moral Practice (vol. 2, no. 3, 1999), 113 pp.
6. Truth in Ethics (Blackwell Publishers, 1996) 96 pp.
7. Rationality, Rules, and Utility: New Essays on the Moral Philosophy of Richard Brandt (Westview Press, 1993) 261 pp.
Articles
62. ‘Publicity in Morality: Reply to Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek and Peter Singer’, forthcoming in Ratio 23, March 2010. Reply to Lazari-Radek & Singer.doc
61. ‘Promises and Rule-consequentialism’, in a volume for Oxford University Press edited by Hanoch Sheinman. Hooker'sPromises29Mar09.doc
60. ‘When Is Impartiality Morally Appropriate?’ in Partiality and Impartiality: Morality, Special Relationships, and the Wider World, Brian Feltham and John Cottingham (eds), Oxford University Press, 2010. 'Hooker on Impartiality'-2.doc
59. ‘Consquentialism’, in The Routledge Companion to Ethics, John Skorupski (ed.), 2009.
58. ‘The Demandingness Objection’, forthcoming in Tim Chappell (ed.), Moral Demandingness, Palgrave, 2009. hooker dmd.doc
57.‘Up and Down with Aggregation’, Social Philosophy and Policy 26 (2009) 126–47. http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=2733896#
56. ‘Act-consequentialism versus Rule-consequentialism’, Politeia 24 (2008), pp. 75–85. Hooker's paper for Politeia.doc
55.‘Fairness, Needs, Desert’, in Matthew Kramer and Claire Grant (eds.) The Legacy of H. L. A. Hart, Oxford University Press, 2008, pp. 181–199.
54.‘The Meaningful Life: Subjectivism, Objectivism, and Divine Support’, in Nafsika Athanassoulis and Samantha Vice (eds), Morality and the Good Life: Essays in Honour of John Cottingham, Palgrave, 2008, pp. 184–200. Hooker for Cottinghamfest.doc
53. ‘American Moral Philosophy’, in Oxford Handbook of American Philosophy, Cheryl Misak (ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008, pp. 578–94. American Moral Philosophy2.doc
52.‘Variable versus Fixed-rate Rule-utilitarianism’, with Guy Fletcher, Philosophical Quarterly, January, 2008, pp. 344–52.
51. ‘Rule-consequentialism and Internal Consistency: A Reply to Card’, Utilitas 19, 2007, pp. 514–19.
50. ‘Moral Particularism and the Real World’, in Mark Lance, Matjaz Potrc, Vojko Strahovnik (eds.), Challenging Moral Particularism, Routledge, Oct. 2007, pp. 12–30.HookerOnParticularism2007.pdf
49. ‘Desert’, Philosophers’ Magazine 39, 3rd quarter 2007, pp. 20–24.
48. ‘Feldman, Rule-consequentialism, and Desert’, in Kris McDaniel, Jason Raibley, Richard Feldman, and Michael J. Zimmerman (eds.), The Good, the Right, Life and Death: Essays in Honor of Fred Feldman (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2006), pp. 103–14.
47. ‘Addendum to Smart’s “Utilitarianism”’, a 4000-word article in Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2nd edition (Farmington Hills, Michigan: Thomson Publishing, 2006).
46. ‘Moral Rules and Principles’, a 2000-word article in Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2nd edition (Farmington Hills, Michigan: Thomson Publishing, 2006).
45. ‘Scanlon versus Moore on Goodness’, co-authored with Philip Stratton-Lake, in Metaethics After Moore, Terry Horgan and Mark Timmons, eds. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), pp. 149–68.
44. ‘Right, Wrong, and Rule-consequentialism’, in Henry West (ed.), Blackwell Guide to Mill’s Utilitarianism, (Boston: Blackwell Publishers, 2006), pp. 233-48.
43. ‘Some Questions Not To Be Begged in Moral Theory’, International Journal of Applied Ethics 19 (2005), pp. 277–84.
42. ‘Fairness’, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 8, 2005, pp. 329-52. Uncorrected proof
41. ‘Reply to Arneson and McIntyre’, Philosophical Issues, 15, Normativity, annual supplement to Noûs, 2005, pp. 264–81. pdf
40. ‘Consequentialism’, a 2269-word article in Oxford Companion to Philosophy, T. Honderich (ed.), 2nd edition (Oxford University Press, 2005), pp. 162–5.
39. ‘The Golden Rule’, Think 10, 2005, pp. 25–9.
38. ‘Procedural versus Substantive Practical Reason’, co-authored with Bart Streumer, in Albert Mele and Piers Rawling (eds.), Oxford Handbook on Rationality (Oxford University Press, 2003), pp. 57–74.
37. ‘Rule-consequentialism’, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consequentialism-rule, December 2003, revised version January, 2008.
36. ‘Contractualism, Spare Wheel, Aggregation’, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 5 (2002), pp. 53–76, and in M. Matravers, (ed.), Scanlon and Contractualism (Frank Cass Publishers, 2003).
35. ‘Dancy on How Reasons Are Related to Oughts’, Southern Journal of Philosophy 41, 2003, pp. 114–20.
34. ‘Kant’s Normative Ethics’, Richmond Journal of Philosophy 1, 2002, pp. 17–22. Hooker on Kant's ethics.pdf
33. ‘Intuitions and Moral Theorizing’, in P. Stratton-Lake, (ed.), Ethical Intuitionism (Oxford University Press, 2002), pp. 161–83.
32. ‘The Collapse of Virtue Ethics’, Utilitas 14, 2002, pp. 22–40.
31. ‘US and them’, Philosopher’s Magazine, 18, 2002, pp. 50–1.
30. ‘Cudworth and Quinn’, Analysis, 61, 2001, pp. 333–5.
29. ‘Ethics in Conflict’, in R. Spier (ed.), Science and Technology Ethics (Routledge, 2001), pp. 89–106.
28. ‘Subjectivism’, in L. and C. Becker (eds.) Encyclopedia of Ethics, Second Edition (Routledge, 2001) pp. 1665–8.
27. ‘Prenuptial Contracts and Safeguards’, Family Law, 31, 2001, pp. 56–8.
26. ‘Sidgwick and Common-sense Morality’, Utilitas, 12, 2000, pp. 347–60.
25. ‘Moral Particularism: Wrong and Bad’, in B. Hooker and M. Little (eds.), Moral Particularism (Oxford University Press, 2000) pp. 1–22; and excerpted in M. Timmons (ed.), Conduct and Character (Wadsworth, 2002), pp. 280–91.
24. ‘Reflective Equilibrium and Rule Consequentialism’, in B. Hooker, E. Mason, and D. Miller, (eds.), Morality, Rules, and Consequences, (Edinburgh University Press, 2000) pp. 222–38.
23. ‘Impartiality, Predictability, and Indirect Consequentialism’, in R. Crisp and B. Hooker (eds.) Well-Being and Morality: Essays in Honour of James Griffin (Oxford University Press, 2000) pp. 129–42.
22. ‘Rule-consequentialism’, in H. LaFollette (ed.) The Blackwell Guide to Ethical Theory (Blackwell Publishers,1999) pp. 183–204. Reprinted in R. Shafter-Landau (ed.) Ethical Theory: An Anthology (Wiley Publishers, 2007), pp. 482–95.
21. ‘Reciprocity and Unselfish Friendship’, Cogito, 13, 1999, pp. 11–14.
20. ‘Moral Expertise’, in Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, vol. 6, 1998, pp. 509–11.
19. ‘Self-interest, Ethics, and the Profit Motive’, in C. Cowton and R. Crisp (eds.) Business Ethics: Perspectives on the Practice of Theory (Oxford University Press, 1998) pp. 27–41.
18. ‘Rule-consequentialism and Obligations to the Needy’, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 79, 1998, pp. 19–31.
17. ‘Reply to Stratton-Lake’, Mind, 106, 1997, pp. 759–60.
16. ‘Rule-utilitarianism and Euthanasia’, in H. LaFollette (ed.) Ethics in Practice (Blackwell Publishers, 1997) pp. 42–52. Reprinted in the Second Edition of Ethics in Practice (Blackwell Publishers, 2002), pp. 22–31. Reprinted in Third Edition, 2007.
15. ‘Ross-style Pluralism versus Rule-consequentialism’, Mind, 106, 1996, pp. 531–52.
14. ‘Introduction’ for B. Hooker (ed.) Truth in Ethics (Blackwell Publishers, 1996) pp. vii–xi.
13. ‘Does Being Virtuous Constitute a Benefit to the Agent?’, in R. Crisp (ed.) How Should One Live? (Oxford University Press, 1996) pp. 141–55.
12. ‘Rule-consequentialism, Incoherence, Fairness’, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 95, 1995, pp. 19–35.
11. ‘Compromising with Convention’, American Philosophical Quarterly, 31, 1994, pp. 311–17.
10. ‘Is Rule-consequentialism a Rubber Duck?’ Analysis, 54, 1994, pp. 92–97.
9. ‘Political Philosophy’, in L. McHenry and F. Adams (eds.) Reflections on Philosophy (St. Martin’s Press, 1993) pp. 87–102. Reprinted in the second edition, McHenry and Yagisawa (eds), (Longman’s Publishers, 2002) pp. 153–70.
8. ‘Parfit’s Arguments for the Present-aim Theory’, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 70, 1992, pp. 61–75.
7. ‘Rule-consequentialism and Demandingness: A Reply to Carson’, Mind, 100, 1991, pp. 269–76.
6. ‘Theories of Welfare, Theories of Good Reasons for Action, and Ontological Naturalism’, Philosophical Papers, 20, 1991, pp. 25–36.
5. ‘Brink, Kagan, Utilitarianism and Self-sacrifice’, Utilitas, 3, 1991, pp. 263–73.
4. ‘Overvold’s Contribution to Philosophy’, Journal of Philosophical Research, 16, 1990–1, pp. 327–37. Reprinted as ‘A Breakthrough in the Desire Theory of Welfare’, in J. Heil (ed.), Rationality, Morality, and Self-Interest (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1993) pp. 201–10.
3. ‘Rule-consequentialism’, Mind, 99, 1990, pp. 67–77, and to be reprinted in M. Timmons (ed.) Character and Conduct 5th edition, (Belmont, CA: Wadesworth).
2. ‘Williams’s Argument against External Reasons’, Analysis, 47, 1987, pp. 42–44. Reprinted in Elijah Millgram (ed.), Essays on Practical Reasoning (MIT Press, 2001) pp. 99–101.
1. ‘Reply to Callan’s “Moral Education in a Liberal Society”’, Journal of Moral Education, 14, 1985, pp. 23–32.
Papers under development
• ‘Critical Notice of Griffin on Human Rights’, for Oxford Journal of Legal Studies’
•‘Raz on Well-Being, Consequentialism, and Morality’.
•‘Altruism, Impartiality, and the Golden Rule’, for Oxford Handbook on the History of Ethics, R. Crisp (ed.), 2009.
Dictionary and short companion Entries
• Entries on Moral pluralism, Fairness, Scanlon, and Prioritarianism in Oxford Companion to Philosophy, 2nd edition (2005).
• Entries on Hare, Brandt, and Phrastics/Neustics in Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, 2nd edition (1999).
• Entries on Prescriptivism, Descriptivism, Sanction, Ascriptivism, Casuistry, and Justice, in Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, 1st edition (1995).
Critical Notices
1. ‘Sacrificing For the Good of Strangers—Repeatedly’, A Critical Discussion of Peter Unger’s Living High and Letting Die, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 59, 1999, pp. 177–81.
2. Critical Notice of Thomas Nagel’s Equality and Partiality, Philosophical Quarterly, 43, 1993, pp. 366–72.
Reviews
1. Review of Sher’s In Praise of Blame, in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2007.
2. Review of Darwall’s Welfare and Rational Care, in Mind, 114, 2005, pp. 409–14.
3. Review of Grayling’s What is Good? The Search for the Best Way to Live, in Philosopher’s Magazine, 26, 2004, p. 57.
4. Review of Rescher’s Fairness, in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2003.
5. Review of Mulgan’s Demands of Consequentialism, in Philosophy, 78, 2003, pp. 289–96.
6. Review of Singer and His Critics, in Mind, 111, 2002, pp. 122–26.
7. Review of Shaver’s Rational Egoism, in Times Literary Supplement, 26 April 2001, p. 31.
8. Review of Timmons’s Morality without Foundations: A Defense of Ethical Contextualism, in Philosophical Quarterly, 51, 2001, 124–27.
9. Review of Copp’s Morality, Normativity, and Society, in Ethics, 1997, pp. 749–52.
10. The Limits of Self-sacrifice, a review of Unger’s Living High and Letting Die, in Times Literary Supplement, 31 January 1997, p. 26.
11. Review of Quinn’s Morality and Action, in Philosophical Quarterly, 46, 1996, pp. 382–85.
12. Review of Maclean’s The Elimination of Morality, in Times Literary Supplement, 28 April 1995, p. 28.
13. Review of Hurka’s Perfectionism, in Philosophical Books, 35, 1994, pp. 200–201.
14. Review of Slote’s From Morality to Virtue, in Mind, 103, 1994, 232–36.
15. Review of Miller’s Moral Differences, in Times Literary Supplement, 3 September 1993, p. 26.
16. Review of Scheffler’s Human Morality, in Mind, 102, 1993, pp. 390–94.
17. Review of Kymlicka’s Contemporary Political Philosophy, in Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 69, 1991, pp. 511–13.
18. Review of Hare and Critics, in Times Literary Supplement, 14 July 1989, p. 784
19. Review of Day’s Liberty and Justice, in Philosophical Books 29, 1988, pp. 244–47.
20. Review of Broad’s Ethics, in Times Literary Supplement, 26 December 1986, p. 1452.
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