Utilitas

Papers
(The median citation count of Utilitas is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
A Philosophical Metabolism Problem: Undermining of Egoistic Reasons11
A Letter from the New Editor11
The Decline of Egoism10
Troubled Hedonism and Social Justice: Mill and the Epicureans on the Ataraxic Life9
Egalitarianism across Generations8
Garrett Cullity, Concern, Respect, and Cooperation (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), pp. 326.8
Degrees and Demands7
Christopher Woodard, Taking Utilitarianism Seriously (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2019), pp. xii + 217.6
Superiority Discounting Implies the Preposterous Conclusion6
What if We Contain Multiple Morally Relevant Subjects?4
John Stuart Mill's Passage on Pimps and the Limits on Free Speech4
The Prospects for ‘Prospect Utilitarianism’4
UTI volume 33 issue 4 Cover and Front matter4
UTI volume 34 issue 1 Cover and Back matter4
UTI volume 34 issue 4 Cover and Back matter4
The Golden Rule: A Naturalistic Perspective4
Michael Quinn, Bentham (Cambridge and Medford: Polity Press, 2022), pp. x + 218.3
A Thomistic Solution to the Deep Problem for Perfectionism3
Three Forms of Actualist Direct Consequentialism3
Roger Crisp, Sacrifice Regained: Morality and Self-Interest in British Moral Philosophy from Hobbes to Bentham (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2019), pp. x + 233.2
Posthumous Harm and Changing Desires2
Some Acts Really Harm: A Defense of the Standard Account versus Norcross's Contextualism2
Joseph Heath, Philosophical Foundations of Climate Change Policy (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2021), pp. 339.2
Who Authored On Liberty? Stylometric Evidence on Harriet Taylor Mill's Contribution2
Ben Bramble & James Lenman , Should We Maximize Utility? A Debate about Utilitarianism (Abingdon, Routledge, 2025), pp. xviii + 224.2
F. M. Kamm, Almost Over: Aging, Dying, Dead (New York: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. xii + 330.2
Absolute Fairness and Weighted Lotteries2
Trivially Satisfied Desires: A Problem for Desire-Satisfaction Theories of Well-Being2
A Less Bad Theory of the Procreation Asymmetry and the Non-Identity Problem2
Reply to Jay on Subjective Consequentialism and Deontic Variance2
Reciprocity, Inequality, and Unsuccessful Rescues1
Rule Consequentialism and Demandingness: The Wrong Solution(s)?1
Tim Mulgan , Philosophy for an Ending World (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2024), pp. xxxiv + 292.1
In Defence of Pigou–Dalton for Chances1
Climate Change and Non-Identity1
Clifford's Consequentialism1
How Should Risk and Ambiguity Affect Our Charitable Giving?1
Sidgwick’s Critique of Deontology: Scrupulous Fairness or Serpent-Windings?1
A Letter from the Editor1
Moral Significance and Overpermissiveness1
Dead Sea Apple Cases of Disappointment1
David Boonin, Dead Wrong: The Ethics of Posthumous Harm (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019), pp. xii + 209.1
Partial Aggregation for Prioritarians1
The Harm Principle and the Nature of Harm1
The Disjunctive Repugnant Conclusion1
Douglas Portmore, Opting for the Best: Oughts and Options (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019), pp. xvii + 324.1
Bigoted Insults, Harm, and the Intentional Infliction of Pain: A Reply to Bell1
Helen McCabe, John Stuart Mill, Socialist (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2021), pp. 368.1
The Definition of Consequentialism: A Survey1
Harm, Failing to Benefit, and the Counterfactual Comparative Account1
Does the Patterned View Avoid the Ideal Worlds Objection?0
Pattern-Based Reasons and Disaster0
Bain's Theory of Moral Judgment and the Development of Mill's Utilitarianism0
Principle, Pragmatism, and Piecework in On Liberty0
Trade, Piecework, and the Liberty Principle0
Larry Temkin, Being Good in a World of Need (Oxford University Press, 2022), pp. xxxi + 388.0
Intersubstrate Welfare Comparisons: Important, Difficult, and Potentially Tractable0
Indeterminacy in Global Warming: A Supervaluationist Response0
Of trolleys and self-driving cars: What machine ethicists can and cannot learn from trolleyology0
Totalism, Animals, and the Repugnant Conclusion0
Psychological Egoism and Ought-Implies-Can: What Do They Entail?0
M. A. Roberts, The Existence Puzzle: An Introduction to Population Axiology (New York: Oxford University Press, 2024), pp. 280.0
Alastair Norcross, Morality by Degrees: Reasons without Demands (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. vii + 157.0
Jeff Sebo, Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves: Why Animals Matter for Pandemics, Climate Change, and Other Catastrophes (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022), pp. xvii + 255.0
Hidden Desires: A Unified Strategy for Defending the Desire-Satisfaction Theory0
Age and Illness Severity: A Case of Irrelevant Utilities?0
Inder Marwah, Liberalism, Diversity and Domination: Kant, Mill, and the Government of Difference (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019), pp. x + 298.0
Concurrent Awareness Desire Satisfactionism0
The Function of Hypocrisy Norms0
Jonathan Pugh, Autonomy, Rationality, and Contemporary Bioethics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 287.0
Compatibilism and Truly Minimal Morality0
When a Free Act Costs a Motive: Clearing Consequentialism of Conflict0
Egyptians, Aliens, and Okies: Against the Sum of Averages0
William MacAskill, Krister Bykvist and Toby Ord, Moral Uncertainty (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. viii + 226.0
William MacAskill, What We Owe The Future: A Million-Year View (One World Publications, London, 2022), pp. 246.0
J. S. Mill's Anti-Imperialist Defence of Empire0
The Sum of Averages: An Egyptology-Proof Average View0
Steve Clarke, Hazem Zohny, and Julian Savulescu (eds.), Rethinking Moral Status (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021), pp. xvii + 333.0
Intergenerational Justice and Freedom from Deprivation0
How Thresholds Matter: On the Bounds and Demands of Justice0
Does Abortion Harm the Fetus?0
Intuition and Kagan's Hierarchicalism0
Weak Superiority, Imprecise Equality and the Repugnant Conclusion – Erratum0
For the Greater Individual and Social Good: Justifying Age-Differentiated Paternalism0
Self-Respect Paternalism0
James E. Crimmins, Utilitarianism in the Early American Republic (New York: Routledge, 2022), pp. 280.0
T. M. Scanlon, Why Does Inequality Matter? (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), pp. 192.0
Benatar and Beyond: Rethinking the Consequences of Asymmetry0
The Parent Trap: Why Choice-Dependent Moral Theories Fail to Deliver the Asymmetry0
Classic Hedonism Reconsidered0
Enrica Chiappero-Martinetti, Siddiqur Osmani, and Mozaffar Qizilbash (eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of the Capability Approach (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021), pp. xxii + 718.0
Non-Conceptual Normative Pluralism and the Dualism of Practical Reason0
An Unwelcome Implication for Omnivores?0
Normative Resilience0
Lives, Limbs, and Liver Spots: The Threshold Approach to Limited Aggregation0
Never Just Save the Few0
The Cosmic Significance of Directed Panspermia: Should Humanity Spread Life to Other Solar Systems?0
UTI volume 34 issue 2 Cover and Back matter0
Felt-Quality Hedonism, Alienation, and the Spirit of Resonance0
The Counterfactual Argument Against Abortion0
Toni Rønnow-Rasmussen, The Value Gap (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022), pp. xv + 215.0
Thomas E. Hill Jr., Beyond Duty: Kantian Ideals of Respect, Beneficence, and Appreciation (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021), pp. xii + 319.0
Don't Go Chasing Waterfalls: Against Hayward's “Utility Cascades”0
The Good and the Wrong of Hypocritical Blaming0
Structural Rationality in Desire0
Climate Esoteric Morality and the Problem of Inconsequentialism0
Human Extinction and Moral Worthwhileness0
Bentham's Mugging0
Is Piecework a Private Concern? A Reply to Riley0
Josh Milburn, Food, Justice, and Animals: Feeding the World Respectfully (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023), pp. 224.0
Is Norcross Right about Right?0
Harm, Context, Blame, and Significance: A Response to Eggleston, Sinnott-Armstrong, Mason, and Kagan0
From Contextualism to Contrastivism in Moral Theory0
UTI volume 34 issue 4 Cover and Front matter0
Ex-Ante Prioritarianism Violates Sequential Ex-Ante Pareto0
We Must Always Pursue Economic Growth0
Catia Faria, Animal Ethics in the Wild: Wild Animal Suffering and Intervention in Nature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023), pp. ix + 222.0
John Peter DiIulio, Completely Free: The Moral and Political Vision of John Stuart Mill (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022), pp. xiii + 305.0
Richard Yetter Chappell, Darius Meissner, William MacAskill, An Introduction to Utilitarianism. From Theory to Practice (Indianapolis/Cambridge, Hackett Publishing Company, 2025), pp. xii + 251.0
UTI volume 34 issue 3 Cover and Front matter0
UTI volume 34 issue 3 Cover and Back matter0
Michael Pelczar, Phenomenalism: A Metaphysics of Chance and Experience (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023), pp. xiii + 210.0
A Millian Case against Epistemic Arguments for Federalism0
Robin Attfield, Applied Ethics: An Introduction (Cambridge, Polity Press, 2023), pp. vi + 218.0
Ending Print Publication After December 2022 Issue0
UTI volume 34 issue 1 Cover and Front matter0
The Morality of Creating Lives Not Worth Living: On Boonin's Solution to the Non-Identity Problem0
Bentham’s Laws in Principem and his Command Theory: a Critique of Hart’s Criticisms0
UTI volume 33 issue 4 Cover and Back matter0
Mark Fabian, A Theory of Subjective Wellbeing (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022), pp. x + 305.0
UTI volume 34 issue 2 Cover and Front matter0
The Sequence Argument Against the Procreation Asymmetry0
Well-being and the Problem of Unstable Desires0
Must We Always Pursue Economic Growth?0
The Worse than Nothing Account of Harm: A Fallen Hero0
Fit and Well-Being0
Doing Harm: A Reply to Klocksiem0
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