ABSTRACT

The conclusion summarizes the main findings of the book and highlights the findings that would remain interesting even if act-consequentialism turned out to be false. The book has argued for the claim that subjective consequentialism is superior to objective consequentialism for a number of reasons, which are associated with three topics: decision-guidance, Ought Implies Can, and case-based intuitions. If act-consequentialism turns out to be false, the findings of the book regarding the following areas remain interesting: the analysis of and proposed solution to the problem of decision-guidance, the defence of Ought Implies Can, the examination of the rationales underlying Ought Implies Can and the related principle Ought Implies Evidence, the analysis of different kinds of action-guidance, the normative relations that hold between decisions and (full-blown) actions according to subjectivism, and the New Perspective as a method in moral epistemology.