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    The notational consequentializer is justified in accepting the first premise that any non-consequentialist theory can be recast as an act-consequentialist theory with equivalent deontic verdicts.

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    • 1.The Footian Procedure provides a mechanical method for generating an act-consequentialist counterpart theory for any plausible non-consequentialist target theory.
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    • 2.The resulting act-consequentialist counterpart theory is guaranteed to yield the same deontic verdicts as the target non-consequentialist theory in every possible world.
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    • 1.The Footian Procedure constructs outcome rankings by reading off verdicts from the target theory, making the resulting 'consequentialist' theory explanatorily circular.
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    • 2.A genuine consequentialist theory must derive deontic verdicts from independently specified value facts, not from antecedently fixed deontological constraints.
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    • 3.When the value function is defined by the deontic verdicts rather than grounding them, the notational consequentialization preserves syntax but destroys the explanatory direction that makes consequentialism a substantive moral theory.
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    • 1.Schroeder's 'teleologizing' objection establishes that agent-relative values required to mimic deontological constraints cannot be specified without covert reference to agent-relative obligations.
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    • 2.If agent-relative values must presuppose agent-relative obligations to generate correct verdicts, then the consequentialized theory is not a genuine rival to deontology but merely a notational redescription of it.
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    • 3.Notational equivalence between theories with identical deontic verdicts is insufficient for theoretical identity when the theories diverge in their modal and explanatory commitments.
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    Key Terms

    Act-consequentialist theory(as the broader ethical framework being discussed)
    A moral theory that judges whether an action is right or wrong based entirely on its consequences or outcomes, rather than on the action itself or the person's intentions.
    Consequentialist theory(as used in ethics)
    A moral theory that judges whether an action is right or wrong entirely based on its consequences or outcomes—for example, whether it produces the most happiness.
    Deontic verdicts(Used in the context of possibilism's method for determining moral obligations)
    Normative judgments about what agents are obligated, permitted, or forbidden to do.
    Non-consequentialist theory(as used in ethics)
    An ethical theory that judges actions based on something other than their outcomes—like following rules, duties, or virtues.
    Recast(in philosophy)
    To reformulate or rephrase something in a different form while keeping the same essential meaning.
    equivalent(Snowdon's proposed reading of 'equivalent' in the context of Hinton's argument about Neutral Experience Reports and Perception-Illusion disjunctions.)
    'P' is equivalent to 'Q' if and only if it is a priori that necessarily (P if and only if Q).
    notational consequentializer(Contrasted with the pragmatic consequentializer)
    A consequentializer who argues that non-consequentialist theories can be assimilated into consequentialism via a notational or formal restatement, using the Extensional Equivalence Thesis as the first premise in an assimilation argument.

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    But, for now, let us examine why the notational consequentializer thinks that the first premise is true. It’s because they have high hopes for what’s known as the Footian Procedure (Portmore 2011: 112), a procedure for generating an act-consequentialist counterpart theory for any plausible target non-consequentialist theory. To follow this procedure, we simply combine act-consequentialism’s view that an act is permissible if and only if its outcome is not outranked by that of any available alter
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