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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)
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What Should We Agree on about the Repugnant Conclusion?17
John Stuart Mill's Harm Principle and Free Speech: Expanding the Notion of Harm16
Thresholds in Distributive Justice14
What Is the Point of the Harshness Objection?8
Who Authored On Liberty? Stylometric Evidence on Harriet Taylor Mill's Contribution8
Climate Change and Non-Identity7
Why Derek Parfit had reasons to accept the Repugnant Conclusion5
We Must Always Pursue Economic Growth4
Aggregation with Constraints4
Bentham's International Political Theory: Taking States’ Responsibilities Seriously4
Effectiveness and Demandingness4
Aggregation, Balancing, and Respect for the Claims of Individuals4
Subjectivism without Idealization and Adaptive Preferences4
Sufficiency and the Minimally Good Life4
The Significance of Tiny Contributions: Barnett and Beyond4
Persson's Merely Possible Persons3
The Definition of Consequentialism: A Survey3
Pascal's Mugger Strikes Again3
J. S. Mill's Anti-Imperialist Defence of Empire3
Subjectivism and Degrees of Well-Being2
How Should Risk and Ambiguity Affect Our Charitable Giving?2
A Second-Personal Solution to the Paradox of Moral Complaint2
Ex-Ante Prioritarianism Violates Sequential Ex-Ante Pareto2
Comprehensive or Political Liberalism? The Impartial Spectator and the Justification of Political Principles2
Equality for Prospective People: A Novel Statement and Defence2
The Harm Principle and the Nature of Harm2
Meat Eating and Moral Responsibility: Exploring the Moral Distinctions between Meat Eaters and Puppy Torturers2
The Place of “The Liberty of Thought and Discussion” inOn Liberty2
The Irrationality of Adaptive Preferences: A Psychological and Semantic Account2
The Relevance View: Defended and Extended2
Participation and Degrees2
Harm, Failing to Benefit, and the Counterfactual Comparative Account2
How to (Consistently) Reject the Options Argument2
Finding Pleasure and Satisfaction in Perfectionism2
Does Abortion Harm the Fetus?2
The Demandingness of Individual Climate Duties: A Reply to Fragnière2
Of trolleys and self-driving cars: What machine ethicists can and cannot learn from trolleyology2
Pattern-Based Reasons and Disaster2
Positive Egalitarianism Reconsidered1
The Cosmic Significance of Directed Panspermia: Should Humanity Spread Life to Other Solar Systems?1
Three Forms of Actualist Direct Consequentialism1
Age and Illness Severity: A Case of Irrelevant Utilities?1
John Stuart Mill's Passage on Pimps and the Limits on Free Speech1
J. S. Mill on Artistic Freedom and Censorship1
Limits to Aggregation and Uncertain Rescues1
Clifford's Consequentialism1
From Compliance, to Acceptance, to Teaching: On Relocating Rule Consequentialism's Stipulations1
Normative Resilience1
In Defence of Pigou–Dalton for Chances1
Truth, Discussion, and Free Speech in On Liberty II1
The Vegan's Dilemma1
Setiya on Consequentialism and Constraints1
Introduction: Updating Mill on Free Speech1
Reply to Bykvist and Campbell on Possible Beings1
Eliot Michaelson and Andreas Stokke (eds.), Lying: Language, Knowledge, Ethics, and Politics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), pp. 320.1
T. M. Scanlon, Why Does Inequality Matter? (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), pp. 192.1
Helen McCabe, John Stuart Mill, Socialist (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2021), pp. 368.1
Hidden Desires: A Unified Strategy for Defending the Desire-Satisfaction Theory1
Two Pessimisms in Mill1
Leaving Agent-Relative Value Behind1
The Sum of Averages: An Egyptology-Proof Average View1
Inder Marwah, Liberalism, Diversity and Domination: Kant, Mill, and the Government of Difference (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019), pp. x + 298.0
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John Peter DiIulio, Completely Free: The Moral and Political Vision of John Stuart Mill (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022), pp. xiii + 305.0
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The Counterfactual Argument Against Abortion0
Michael Pelczar, Phenomenalism: A Metaphysics of Chance and Experience (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023), pp. xiii + 210.0
Well-being and the Problem of Unstable Desires0
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Emmanuelle de Champs, Enlightenment and Utility: Bentham in French, Bentham in France (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015), pp. viii + 230.0
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Doing Harm: A Reply to Klocksiem0
Thomas E. Hill Jr., Beyond Duty: Kantian Ideals of Respect, Beneficence, and Appreciation (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021), pp. xii + 319.0
Guy Fletcher, Dear Prudence (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021), pp. 1–223.0
Reciprocity, Inequality, and Unsuccessful Rescues0
Why Impossible Options Are Better: Consequentializing Dilemmas0
A Thomistic Solution to the Deep Problem for Perfectionism0
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Tocqueville, Democratic Poetry, and the Religion of Humanity0
Egyptians, Aliens, and Okies: Against the Sum of Averages0
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Susanna Newcome and the Origins of Utilitarianism0
The Decline of Egoism0
Elijah Millgram, John Stuart Mill and the Meaning of Life (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019), pp. viii + 249.0
What if We Contain Multiple Morally Relevant Subjects?0
Fred Feldman, Distributive Justice: Getting What We Deserve from Our Country (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2016), pp. ix + 269. $55.00.0
Hilary Greaves and Theron Pummer, Effective Altruism: Philosophical Issues (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019), pp. x + 247.0
For the Greater Individual and Social Good: Justifying Age-Differentiated Paternalism0
Self-Respect Paternalism0
Jonathan Pugh, Autonomy, Rationality, and Contemporary Bioethics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 287.0
Don't Go Chasing Waterfalls: Against Hayward's “Utility Cascades”0
Josh Milburn, Food, Justice, and Animals: Feeding the World Respectfully (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023), pp. 224.0
Shelly Kagan, How to Count Animals, More or Less (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019), pp. x + 309.0
Joseph Heath, Philosophical Foundations of Climate Change Policy (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2021), pp. 339.0
Bentham's Mugging0
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Matthew D. Adler, Measuring Social Welfare: An Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019), pp. 317.0
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Never Just Save the Few0
Collective Reasons and Agent-Relativity0
James E. Crimmins, Utilitarianism in the Early American Republic (New York: Routledge, 2022), pp. 280.0
Benatar and Beyond: Rethinking the Consequences of Asymmetry0
Douglas Portmore, Opting for the Best: Oughts and Options (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019), pp. xvii + 324.0
William MacAskill, What We Owe The Future: A Million-Year View (One World Publications, London, 2022), pp. 246.0
Intersubstrate Welfare Comparisons: Important, Difficult, and Potentially Tractable0
Negative Utility Monsters0
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The Good and the Wrong of Hypocritical Blaming0
Indeterminacy in Global Warming: A Supervaluationist Response0
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Superiority Discounting Implies the Preposterous Conclusion0
Robin Attfield, Applied Ethics: An Introduction (Cambridge, Polity Press, 2023), pp. vi + 218.0
A New Argument Against Critical-Level Utilitarianism0
Michael Quinn, Bentham (Cambridge and Medford: Polity Press, 2022), pp. x + 218.0
Inequality: Do Not Disperse0
Concurrent Awareness Desire Satisfactionism0
When a Free Act Costs a Motive: Clearing Consequentialism of Conflict0
A Letter from the Editor0
Ending Print Publication After December 2022 Issue0
Agent-Relative Consequentialism and Collective Self-Defeat0
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Christopher Woodard, Taking Utilitarianism Seriously (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2019), pp. xii + 217.0
Catia Faria, Animal Ethics in the Wild: Wild Animal Suffering and Intervention in Nature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023), pp. ix + 222.0
Trivially Satisfied Desires: A Problem for Desire-Satisfaction Theories of Well-Being0
Moral Significance and Overpermissiveness0
Troubled Hedonism and Social Justice: Mill and the Epicureans on the Ataraxic Life0
Reply to Jay on Subjective Consequentialism and Deontic Variance0
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Lives, Limbs, and Liver Spots: The Threshold Approach to Limited Aggregation0
Weak Superiority, Imprecise Equality and the Repugnant Conclusion – Erratum0
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Value Conservatism and its Challenge to Consequentialism0
The Prospects for ‘Prospect Utilitarianism’0
The Golden Rule: A Naturalistic Perspective0
Samuel Hollander, A History of Utilitarian Ethics: Studies in Private Motivation and Distributive Justice, 1700–1815 (London and New York: Routledge, 2020), pp. xii + 400.0
Principle, Pragmatism, and Piecework in On Liberty0
Samuel Scheffler, Why Worry About Future Generations? (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), pp. viii + 146.0
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Attitudinal Theories of Pleasure and De Re Desires0
Reasons Internalism and the Problem of Depression0
David Phillips, Rossian Ethics: W. D. Ross and Contemporary Moral Theory (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019), pp. 216.0
Roger Crisp, Sacrifice Regained: Morality and Self-Interest in British Moral Philosophy from Hobbes to Bentham (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2019), pp. x + 233.0
Must We Always Pursue Economic Growth?0
Maria Dimova-Cookson, Rethinking Positive and Negative Liberty (London and New York: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2020), pp. xvii + 251.0
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A Less Bad Theory of the Procreation Asymmetry and the Non-Identity Problem0
Human Extinction and Moral Worthwhileness0
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David Boonin, Dead Wrong: The Ethics of Posthumous Harm (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019), pp. xii + 209.0
A Letter from the New Editor0
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Parfit on Act Consequentialism0
Sidgwick's Distinction Passage0
Fit and Well-Being0
Paternalism as Punishment0
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
Chris Barker, Educating Liberty: Democracy and Aristocracy in J. S. Mill's Political Thought (Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 2018). pp. viii, 267. $105.00.0
Bain's Theory of Moral Judgment and the Development of Mill's Utilitarianism0
Derek Parfit, On What Matters: Volume III (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), pp. xiv + 468.0
F. M. Kamm, Almost Over: Aging, Dying, Dead (New York: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. xii + 330.0
I, Trolley: Self-Redirection and Hybrid Trolley Cases0
The Morality of Creating Lives Not Worth Living: On Boonin's Solution to the Non-Identity Problem0
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