Utilitas

1989 - 2024

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Volume 36, issue 2, 2024

Posthumous Harm and Changing Desires pp. 115-129

Andrea S. Asker

Does the Patterned View Avoid the Ideal Worlds Objection? pp. 130-147

Benedict Rumbold

Lives, Limbs, and Liver Spots: The Threshold Approach to Limited Aggregation pp. 148-167

S. Matthew Liao and James Edgar Lim

Intergenerational Justice and Freedom from Deprivation pp. 168-183

Dick Timmer

Toni Rønnow-Rasmussen, The Value Gap (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022), pp. xv + 215 pp. 184-186

Alex Gregory

Alastair Norcross, Morality by Degrees: Reasons without Demands (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. vii + 157 pp. 186-189

Makan Nojoumian

Josh Milburn, Food, Justice, and Animals: Feeding the World Respectfully (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023), pp. 224 pp. 189-192

Nicolas Delon

Volume 36, issue 1, 2024

For the Greater Individual and Social Good: Justifying Age-Differentiated Paternalism pp. 1-15

Viki Møller Lyngby Pedersen

Fit and Well-Being pp. 16-34

Teresa Bruno-Niño

A Less Bad Theory of the Procreation Asymmetry and the Non-Identity Problem pp. 35-49

Jonas H. Aaron

Intersubstrate Welfare Comparisons: Important, Difficult, and Potentially Tractable pp. 50-63

Bob Fischer and Jeff Sebo

Reciprocity, Inequality, and Unsuccessful Rescues pp. 64-82

Romy Eskens

The Good and the Wrong of Hypocritical Blaming pp. 83-101

Kartik Upadhyaya

Must We Always Pursue Economic Growth? pp. 102-110

Jeffrey Carroll

Robin Attfield, Applied Ethics: An Introduction (Cambridge, Polity Press, 2023), pp. vi + 218 pp. 111-113

Workineh Kelbessa

Volume 35, issue 4, 2023

Benatar and Beyond: Rethinking the Consequences of Asymmetry pp. 245-259

Kaila Draper

Well-being and the Problem of Unstable Desires pp. 260-276

Atus Mariqueo-Russell

Trivially Satisfied Desires: A Problem for Desire-Satisfaction Theories of Well-Being pp. 277-291

Luca Hemmerich

In Defence of Pigou–Dalton for Chances pp. 292-311

H. Orri Stefánsson

Principle, Pragmatism, and Piecework in On Liberty pp. 312-319

Dale E. Miller

Egyptians, Aliens, and Okies: Against the Sum of Averages pp. 320-326

Christian Tarsney, Michael Geruso and Dean Spears

James E. Crimmins, Utilitarianism in the Early American Republic (New York: Routledge, 2022), pp. 280 pp. 327-329

Chris Riley

Catia Faria, Animal Ethics in the Wild: Wild Animal Suffering and Intervention in Nature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023), pp. ix + 222 pp. 329-332

Josh Milburn

William MacAskill, What We Owe The Future: A Million-Year View (One World Publications, London, 2022), pp. 246 pp. 333-338

Michael Plant

Michael Pelczar, Phenomenalism: A Metaphysics of Chance and Experience (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023), pp. xiii + 210 pp. 338-346

Jonathan Riley

John Peter DiIulio, Completely Free: The Moral and Political Vision of John Stuart Mill (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022), pp. xiii + 305 pp. 346-348

Chad Van Schoelandt

Volume 35, issue 3, 2023

How Should Risk and Ambiguity Affect Our Charitable Giving? pp. 175-197

Lara Buchak

Concurrent Awareness Desire Satisfactionism pp. 198-217

Paul Forrester

The Counterfactual Argument Against Abortion pp. 218-228

Ryan Kulesa

Doing Harm: A Reply to Klocksiem pp. 229-237

Erik Carlson, Jens Johansson and Olle Risberg

David Boonin, Dead Wrong: The Ethics of Posthumous Harm (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019), pp. xii + 209 pp. 238-242

Rebecca Chan

Douglas Portmore, Opting for the Best: Oughts and Options (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019), pp. xvii + 324 pp. 242-244

Chris Tucker

Volume 35, issue 2, 2023

The Sum of Averages: An Egyptology-Proof Average View pp. 103-118

Kalle Grill

Moral Significance and Overpermissiveness pp. 119-130

Fırat Akova

Pattern-Based Reasons and Disaster pp. 131-147

Alexander Dietz

Indeterminacy in Global Warming: A Supervaluationist Response pp. 148-163

Patrick Dieveney

Thomas E. Hill Jr., Beyond Duty: Kantian Ideals of Respect, Beneficence, and Appreciation (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021), pp. xii + 319 pp. 164-167

Bas Tönissen

Helen McCabe, John Stuart Mill, Socialist (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2021), pp. 368 pp. 167-173

Piers Norris Turner

Volume 35, issue 1, 2023

Three Forms of Actualist Direct Consequentialism pp. 1-24

Shyam Nair

When a Free Act Costs a Motive: Clearing Consequentialism of Conflict pp. 25-39

Austen McDougal

Self-Respect Paternalism pp. 40-53

Søren Flinch Midtgaard

Troubled Hedonism and Social Justice: Mill and the Epicureans on the Ataraxic Life pp. 54-69

Chris Barker

Of trolleys and self-driving cars: What machine ethicists can and cannot learn from trolleyology pp. 70-87

Peter Königs

The Morality of Creating Lives Not Worth Living: On Boonin's Solution to the Non-Identity Problem pp. 88-97

Olle Risberg

Roger Crisp, Sacrifice Regained: Morality and Self-Interest in British Moral Philosophy from Hobbes to Bentham (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2019), pp. x + 233 pp. 98-102

James E. Crimmins

Volume 34, issue 4, 2022

Ending Print Publication After December 2022 Issue pp. 367-367

Ben Eggleston

The Definition of Consequentialism: A Survey pp. 368-385

Oscar Horta, Gary David O'Brien and Dayron Teran

Bentham's Mugging pp. 386-391

Johan Gustafsson

John Stuart Mill's Passage on Pimps and the Limits on Free Speech pp. 392-408

Mark Tunick

Bain's Theory of Moral Judgment and the Development of Mill's Utilitarianism pp. 409-427

Aaron Zimmerman

Harm, Failing to Benefit, and the Counterfactual Comparative Account pp. 428-444

Justin Klocksiem

Hidden Desires: A Unified Strategy for Defending the Desire-Satisfaction Theory pp. 445-460

Xiang Yu

A Thomistic Solution to the Deep Problem for Perfectionism pp. 461-477

Matthew Shea and James Kintz

We Must Always Pursue Economic Growth pp. 478-492

Brian Kogelmann

Superiority Discounting Implies the Preposterous Conclusion pp. 493-501

Mitchell Barrington

Michael Quinn, Bentham (Cambridge and Medford: Polity Press, 2022), pp. x + 218 pp. 502-508

Yanxiang Zhang

Volume 34, issue 3, 2022

A Letter from the New Editor pp. 241-241

Ben Eggleston

J. S. Mill's Anti-Imperialist Defence of Empire pp. 242-261

Tim Beaumont and Yuan Li

The Golden Rule: A Naturalistic Perspective pp. 262-274

Nathan Cofnas

Never Just Save the Few pp. 275-288

Leora Urim Sung

Clifford's Consequentialism pp. 289-299

Brian Zamulinski

The Decline of Egoism pp. 300-316

Robert Shaver

What if We Contain Multiple Morally Relevant Subjects? pp. 317-334

Dustin Crummett

The Prospects for ‘Prospect Utilitarianism’ pp. 335-343

Ben Davies

Reply to Jay on Subjective Consequentialism and Deontic Variance pp. 344-347

Scott Forschler

F. M. Kamm, Almost Over: Aging, Dying, Dead (New York: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. xii + 330 pp. 348-351

Teresa Bruno-Niño

Joseph Heath, Philosophical Foundations of Climate Change Policy (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2021), pp. 339 pp. 351-355

Marc D. Davidson

Jonathan Pugh, Autonomy, Rationality, and Contemporary Bioethics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 287 pp. 355-359

Andréa Daventry

Enrica Chiappero-Martinetti, Siddiqur Osmani, and Mozaffar Qizilbash (eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of the Capability Approach (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021), pp. xxii + 718 pp. 359-363

Morten Fibieger Byskov

Christopher Woodard, Taking Utilitarianism Seriously (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2019), pp. xii + 217 pp. 363-366

Lizzy Ventham

Volume 34, issue 2, 2022

A Letter from the Editor pp. 119-119

Dale E. Miller

Who Authored On Liberty? Stylometric Evidence on Harriet Taylor Mill's Contribution pp. 120-138

Christoph Schmidt-Petri, Michael Schefczyk and Lilly Osburg

The Harm Principle and the Nature of Harm pp. 139-153

Anna Folland

Does Abortion Harm the Fetus? pp. 154-166

Karl Ekendahl and Jens Johansson

Ex-Ante Prioritarianism Violates Sequential Ex-Ante Pareto pp. 167-177

Johan Gustafsson

The Cosmic Significance of Directed Panspermia: Should Humanity Spread Life to Other Solar Systems? pp. 178-194

Oskari Sivula

Normative Resilience pp. 195-208

Henrik Andersson and Jakob Werkmäster

Age and Illness Severity: A Case of Irrelevant Utilities? pp. 209-224

Borgar Jølstad and Niklas Juth

Don't Go Chasing Waterfalls: Against Hayward's “Utility Cascades” pp. 225-232

Ryan Doody

Inder Marwah, Liberalism, Diversity and Domination: Kant, Mill, and the Government of Difference (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019), pp. x + 298 pp. 233-236

Inés Valdez

Weak Superiority, Imprecise Equality and the Repugnant Conclusion – Erratum pp. 237-239

Karsten Klint Jensen

Volume 34, issue 1, 2022

Tocqueville, Democratic Poetry, and the Religion of Humanity pp. 1-18

Üner Daglier

Positive Egalitarianism Reconsidered pp. 19-38

Gustaf Arrhenius and Julia Mosquera

Participation and Degrees pp. 39-56

Jan Willem Wieland

Collective Reasons and Agent-Relativity pp. 57-69

Alexander Dietz

Limits to Aggregation and Uncertain Rescues pp. 70-83

Bastian Steuwer

Climate Change and Non-Identity pp. 84-96

Lukas Tank

Subjectivism and Degrees of Well-Being pp. 97-104

Jacob Barrett

Human Extinction and Moral Worthwhileness pp. 105-112

Elizabeth Finneron-Burns

T. M. Scanlon, Why Does Inequality Matter? (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), pp. 192 pp. 113-118

David O'Brien