Brad Hooker (born 13 September 1957)[1] is a British-American philosopher who specialises in moral philosophy.
His book Ideal Code, Real World[2] received a number of favourable reviews from high-profile philosophers.
Derek Parfit, for example, wrote: "This book seems to me the best statement and defence, so far, of one of the most important moral theories.
[4] One of the most common objections to rule-consequentialism is that it is incoherent, because it is based on the consequentialist principle that we should be concerned with maximising the good, but then tells us not to act to maximise the good, but to follow rules (even in cases where we know that breaking the rule could produce better results).
Hooker avoids this objection by not basing his form of rule-consequentialism on the ideal of maximising the good.