This is an undergraduate paper I wrote in response to an early draft (Nov 2009) of (primarily) chapter 6 of Douglas W. Portmore’s book Commonsense Consequentialism. It was written for an independent study with Portmore on practical rationality. I spent a few weeks revising it and then used it as my writing sample for graduate school applications.
Accounting for Objective Rational Permissibility without Act-Sequences