Dual-ranking act-consequentialism (DRAC) is a rather peculiar version of act-consequentialism. Unlike more traditional forms
of act-consequentialism, DRAC doesn’t take the deontic status of an action to be a function of some evaluative ranking of
outcomes. Rather, it takes the deontic status of an action to be a function of some non-evaluative ranking that is in turn
a function of two auxiliary rankings that are evaluative. I argue that DRAC is promising in that it can accommodate certain
features of commonsense morality that no single-ranking version of act-consequentialism can: supererogation, agent-centered
options, and the self-other asymmetry. I also defend DRAC against three objections: (1) that its dual-ranking structure is
ad hoc, (2) that it denies (putatively implausibly) that it is always permissible to make self-sacrifices that don’t make
things worse for others, and (3) that it violates certain axioms of expected utility theory, viz., transitivity and independence.
Keywords Utilitarianism - Consequentialism - Self-other asymmetry - Options - Sider - Splawn