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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
A Letter from the New Editor11
The Decline of Egoism9
Degrees and Demands9
Troubled Hedonism and Social Justice: Mill and the Epicureans on the Ataraxic Life7
Garrett Cullity, Concern, Respect, and Cooperation (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), pp. 326.5
Superiority Discounting Implies the Preposterous Conclusion4
The Prospects for ‘Prospect Utilitarianism’4
Christopher Woodard, Taking Utilitarianism Seriously (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2019), pp. xii + 217.4
UTI volume 34 issue 4 Cover and Back matter4
Egalitarianism across Generations4
What if We Contain Multiple Morally Relevant Subjects?4
UTI volume 33 issue 4 Cover and Front matter4
A Thomistic Solution to the Deep Problem for Perfectionism3
UTI volume 34 issue 1 Cover and Back matter3
Three Forms of Actualist Direct Consequentialism3
John Stuart Mill's Passage on Pimps and the Limits on Free Speech3
Michael Quinn, Bentham (Cambridge and Medford: Polity Press, 2022), pp. x + 218.3
UTI volume 33 issue 3 Cover and Front matter3
Roger Crisp, Sacrifice Regained: Morality and Self-Interest in British Moral Philosophy from Hobbes to Bentham (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2019), pp. x + 233.2
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
Posthumous Harm and Changing Desires2
Some Acts Really Harm: A Defense of the Standard Account versus Norcross's Contextualism2
Absolute Fairness and Weighted Lotteries2
F. M. Kamm, Almost Over: Aging, Dying, Dead (New York: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. xii + 330.2
A Less Bad Theory of the Procreation Asymmetry and the Non-Identity Problem2
Reply to Jay on Subjective Consequentialism and Deontic Variance2
The Golden Rule: A Naturalistic Perspective2
Trivially Satisfied Desires: A Problem for Desire-Satisfaction Theories of Well-Being2
The Definition of Consequentialism: A Survey1
UTI volume 33 issue 3 Cover and Back matter1
In Defence of Pigou–Dalton for Chances1
Moral Significance and Overpermissiveness1
Reciprocity, Inequality, and Unsuccessful Rescues1
Climate Change and Non-Identity1
Clifford's Consequentialism1
Thomas E. Hill Jr., Beyond Duty: Kantian Ideals of Respect, Beneficence, and Appreciation (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021), pp. xii + 319.1
Two Pessimisms in Mill1
The Harm Principle and the Nature of Harm1
A Letter from the Editor1
Dead Sea Apple Cases of Disappointment1
The Sequence Argument Against the Procreation Asymmetry1
Partial Aggregation for Prioritarians1
William MacAskill, Krister Bykvist and Toby Ord, Moral Uncertainty (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. viii + 226.1
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
How Should Risk and Ambiguity Affect Our Charitable Giving?1
Harm, Failing to Benefit, and the Counterfactual Comparative Account1
Douglas Portmore, Opting for the Best: Oughts and Options (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019), pp. xvii + 324.1
David Boonin, Dead Wrong: The Ethics of Posthumous Harm (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019), pp. xii + 209.1
Well-being and the Problem of Unstable Desires0
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
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
Doing Harm: A Reply to Klocksiem0
J. S. Mill's Anti-Imperialist Defence of Empire0
Josh Milburn, Food, Justice, and Animals: Feeding the World Respectfully (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023), pp. 224.0
Fit and Well-Being0
Benatar and Beyond: Rethinking the Consequences of Asymmetry0
James E. Crimmins, Utilitarianism in the Early American Republic (New York: Routledge, 2022), pp. 280.0
Pattern-Based Reasons and Disaster0
Intersubstrate Welfare Comparisons: Important, Difficult, and Potentially Tractable0
Does Abortion Harm the Fetus?0
Classic Hedonism Reconsidered0
From Contextualism to Contrastivism in Moral Theory0
Tocqueville, Democratic Poetry, and the Religion of Humanity0
Ex-Ante Prioritarianism Violates Sequential Ex-Ante Pareto0
Collective Reasons and Agent-Relativity0
Totalism, Animals, and the Repugnant Conclusion0
M. A. Roberts, The Existence Puzzle: An Introduction to Population Axiology (New York: Oxford University Press, 2024), pp. 280.0
Age and Illness Severity: A Case of Irrelevant Utilities?0
When a Free Act Costs a Motive: Clearing Consequentialism of Conflict0
The Function of Hypocrisy Norms0
Steve Clarke, Hazem Zohny, and Julian Savulescu (eds.), Rethinking Moral Status (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021), pp. xvii + 333.0
Concurrent Awareness Desire Satisfactionism0
Non-Conceptual Normative Pluralism and the Dualism of Practical Reason0
Jonathan Pugh, Autonomy, Rationality, and Contemporary Bioethics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 287.0
The Cosmic Significance of Directed Panspermia: Should Humanity Spread Life to Other Solar Systems?0
Human Extinction and Moral Worthwhileness0
Intuition and Kagan's Hierarchicalism0
Toni Rønnow-Rasmussen, The Value Gap (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022), pp. xv + 215.0
William MacAskill, What We Owe The Future: A Million-Year View (One World Publications, London, 2022), pp. 246.0
Hidden Desires: A Unified Strategy for Defending the Desire-Satisfaction Theory0
Does the Patterned View Avoid the Ideal Worlds Objection?0
Psychological Egoism and Ought-Implies-Can: What Do They Entail?0
The Good and the Wrong of Hypocritical Blaming0
Bain's Theory of Moral Judgment and the Development of Mill's Utilitarianism0
Subjectivism and Degrees of Well-Being0
John Peter DiIulio, Completely Free: The Moral and Political Vision of John Stuart Mill (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022), pp. xiii + 305.0
Ending Print Publication After December 2022 Issue0
Trade, Piecework, and the Liberty Principle0
I, Trolley: Self-Redirection and Hybrid Trolley Cases0
Bentham’s Laws in Principem and his Command Theory: a Critique of Hart’s Criticisms0
The Parent Trap: Why Choice-Dependent Moral Theories Fail to Deliver the Asymmetry0
Participation and Degrees0
T. M. Scanlon, Why Does Inequality Matter? (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), pp. 192.0
For the Greater Individual and Social Good: Justifying Age-Differentiated Paternalism0
Principle, Pragmatism, and Piecework in On Liberty0
Alastair Norcross, Morality by Degrees: Reasons without Demands (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. vii + 157.0
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
The Morality of Creating Lives Not Worth Living: On Boonin's Solution to the Non-Identity Problem0
Guy Fletcher, Dear Prudence (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021), pp. 1–223.0
Intergenerational Justice and Freedom from Deprivation0
Compatibilism and Truly Minimal Morality0
Robin Attfield, Applied Ethics: An Introduction (Cambridge, Polity Press, 2023), pp. vi + 218.0
Bentham's Mugging0
Michael Pelczar, Phenomenalism: A Metaphysics of Chance and Experience (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023), pp. xiii + 210.0
UTI volume 34 issue 1 Cover and Front matter0
Of trolleys and self-driving cars: What machine ethicists can and cannot learn from trolleyology0
The Sum of Averages: An Egyptology-Proof Average View0
Mark Fabian, A Theory of Subjective Wellbeing (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022), pp. x + 305.0
Inder Marwah, Liberalism, Diversity and Domination: Kant, Mill, and the Government of Difference (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019), pp. x + 298.0
Positive Egalitarianism Reconsidered0
Must We Always Pursue Economic Growth?0
Don't Go Chasing Waterfalls: Against Hayward's “Utility Cascades”0
Climate Esoteric Morality and the Problem of Inconsequentialism0
UTI volume 34 issue 4 Cover and Front matter0
Harm, Context, Blame, and Significance: A Response to Eggleston, Sinnott-Armstrong, Mason, and Kagan0
UTI volume 34 issue 3 Cover and Back matter0
The Counterfactual Argument Against Abortion0
Self-Respect Paternalism0
We Must Always Pursue Economic Growth0
Normative Resilience0
The Worse than Nothing Account of Harm: A Fallen Hero0
Limits to Aggregation and Uncertain Rescues0
UTI volume 34 issue 2 Cover and Back matter0
Catia Faria, Animal Ethics in the Wild: Wild Animal Suffering and Intervention in Nature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023), pp. ix + 222.0
Indeterminacy in Global Warming: A Supervaluationist Response0
A Millian Case against Epistemic Arguments for Federalism0
UTI volume 34 issue 2 Cover and Front matter0
Is Norcross Right about Right?0
Never Just Save the Few0
Weak Superiority, Imprecise Equality and the Repugnant Conclusion – Erratum0
Lives, Limbs, and Liver Spots: The Threshold Approach to Limited Aggregation0
UTI volume 34 issue 3 Cover and Front matter0
Egyptians, Aliens, and Okies: Against the Sum of Averages0
UTI volume 33 issue 4 Cover and Back matter0
How Thresholds Matter: On the Bounds and Demands of Justice0
The Significance of Tiny Contributions: Barnett and Beyond0
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