The Murphy Institute

Faculty Seminar

Brad Hooker

“Fairness and Promises”

Friday, February 6, 2009 | 4:00 PM

Tilton Hall

Room 307

Brad Hooker is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Reading. He is author of Ideal Code, Real World: A Rule-consequentialist Theory of Morality (Oxford University Press, 2000), and editor of Rationality, Rules, and Utility (Westview Press, 1993), and Truth in Ethics (Blackwell Publishers, 1996). In addition, he is co-editor of Well-Being and Morality (Oxford University Press, 2000), Morality, Rules, and Consequences (Edinburgh University Press and Rowman and Littlefield, 2000), and Moral Particularism (Oxford University Press, 2000).

Professor Hooker has also published a numerous articles, mostly in moral philosophy. He is President of the British Philosophical Association, 2006-2009.

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