Utilitas

1989 - 2026

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Volume 38, issue 2, 2026

The Influence of Ancient Greek Moral Philosophy on Bentham’s Development of the Principle of Utility: “I Had It from Epicurus, from Carneades,…” pp. 83-101

Rex W. Mixon

How Relationships Mitigate Paternalistic Complaints (When They Do) pp. 102-118

Lauritz Aastrup Munch and Søren Flinch Midtgaard

The Subjectivity Argument against the Intrinsic Value of Pleasure pp. 119-128

Antonin Broi

Better Never to Have Been, Better to Cease to Be? pp. 129-142

C. J. Leak

Harm-Benefit Analysis for Animal Experiments Is Not Utilitarian pp. 143-154

Nico Dario Müller and Tristan Katz

Can Vegans Eat Dessert? pp. 155-173

Kyle York

The Dual Reason-Giving Force of Welfare: An Exploration pp. 174-194

Jonas Harney

Counterfactual Persons and the Argument Against Abortion: Reply to Kulesa pp. 195-199

Harold Noonan

Robert Audi and David Philips (eds.), The Moral Philosophy of W.D. Ross: Metaethics, Normative Ethics, Virtue, & Value (Oxford, OUP, 2025), pp. xii + 272 pp. 200-202

Dustin Crummett

Volume 38, issue 1, 2026

Family and Moderation in Locke’s State of Nature pp. 1-17

Mario I. Juarez-Garcia

What Is the Point of a Duty of Beneficence? Reevaluating Taurek pp. 18-33

Andrew McKay Flynn

Bodily Appearance, Respect for Persons, and Protecting the Vulnerable pp. 34-50

Andrew Mason

Precious Goods pp. 51-65

Dale Dorsey

Samuel Scheffler, One Life to Lead: The Mysteries of Time and the Goods of Attachment. (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2024), pp. xi + 251 pp. 66-68

Simone Gubler

Shelly Kagan, Answering Moral Skepticism (New York: Oxford University Press), pp. xiv + 392 pp. 68-71

Jussi Suikkanen

Jeanine M. Grenberg, Kant’s Deontological Eudaemonism: The Dutiful Pursuit of Virtue and Happiness (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2022), pp. xii + 414 pp. 71-74

Johannes Nickl

Hilary Greaves, Jacob Barrett, David Thorstad, Essays on Longtermism: Present Action for the Distant Future (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2025), pp. 608 pp. 74-76

B.V.E. Hyde

Paul Hurley, Against the Tyranny of Outcomes (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2024), pp. xv + 187 pp. 77-81

David Cummiskey

Volume 37, issue 4, 2025

Felt-Quality Hedonism, Alienation, and the Spirit of Resonance pp. 253-274

Nikki Fortier

A Philosophical Metabolism Problem: Undermining of Egoistic Reasons pp. 275-290

Ivar Labukt

Sidgwick’s Critique of Deontology: Scrupulous Fairness or Serpent-Windings? pp. 291-308

Tyler Paytas

Structural Rationality in Desire pp. 309-325

Alex Gregory

The Disjunctive Repugnant Conclusion pp. 326-336

Johan E. Gustafsson

Is Piecework a Private Concern? A Reply to Riley pp. 337-342

Dale E. Miller

Larry Temkin, Being Good in a World of Need (Oxford University Press, 2022), pp. xxxi + 388 pp. 343-345

Tyler M. John

Ben Bramble & James Lenman, Should We Maximize Utility? A Debate about Utilitarianism (Abingdon, Routledge, 2025), pp. xviii + 224 pp. 345-348

Olle Blomberg

Volume 37, issue 3, 2025

An Unwelcome Implication for Omnivores? pp. 181-198

Aaron Chipp-Miller

Dead Sea Apple Cases of Disappointment pp. 199-210

Atus Mariqueo-Russell

Rule Consequentialism and Demandingness: The Wrong Solution(s)? pp. 211-224

Andrea Sauchelli

How Thresholds Matter: On the Bounds and Demands of Justice pp. 225-245

David V. Axelsen and Liam Shields

Tim Mulgan, Philosophy for an Ending World (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2024), pp. xxxiv + 292 pp. 246-248

Claudia Blöser

Richard Yetter Chappell, Darius Meissner, William MacAskill, An Introduction to Utilitarianism. From Theory to Practice (Indianapolis/Cambridge, Hackett Publishing Company, 2025), pp. xii + 251 pp. 249-251

Konstantin Weber

Volume 37, issue 2, 2025

Bentham’s Laws in Principem and his Command Theory: a Critique of Hart’s Criticisms pp. 75-93

Xiaobo Zhai

Climate Esoteric Morality and the Problem of Inconsequentialism pp. 94-112

Ilias Voiron and Mikko M. Puumala

Psychological Egoism and Ought-Implies-Can: What Do They Entail? pp. 113-122

John J. Tilley

The Function of Hypocrisy Norms pp. 123-140

Matthew Jeffers and Alexander Schaefer

The Parent Trap: Why Choice-Dependent Moral Theories Fail to Deliver the Asymmetry pp. 141-155

Tim Campbell and Patrick Kaczmarek

The Worse than Nothing Account of Harm: A Fallen Hero pp. 156-162

Jens Johansson and Olle Risberg

Bigoted Insults, Harm, and the Intentional Infliction of Pain: A Reply to Bell pp. 163-170

Dale E. Miller

M. A. Roberts, The Existence Puzzle: An Introduction to Population Axiology (New York: Oxford University Press, 2024), pp. 280 pp. 171-174

B. V. E. Hyde, Harriet Ball and Makan Nojoumian

Mark Fabian, A Theory of Subjective Wellbeing (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022), pp. x + 305 pp. 174-177

Malte Dold

Steve Clarke, Hazem Zohny, and Julian Savulescu (eds.), Rethinking Moral Status (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021), pp. xvii + 333 pp. 177-180

Kęstutis Mosakas

Volume 37, issue 1, 2025

Some Acts Really Harm: A Defense of the Standard Account versus Norcross's Contextualism pp. 1-15

Ben Eggleston

From Contextualism to Contrastivism in Moral Theory pp. 16-33

Walter Sinnott-Armstrong

Degrees and Demands pp. 34-43

Elinor Mason

Is Norcross Right about Right? pp. 44-56

Shelly Kagan

Harm, Context, Blame, and Significance: A Response to Eggleston, Sinnott-Armstrong, Mason, and Kagan pp. 57-73

Alastair Norcross

Volume 36, issue 4, 2024

Compatibilism and Truly Minimal Morality pp. 323-337

Travis Quigley

The Sequence Argument Against the Procreation Asymmetry pp. 338-351

Matthew Adelstein

Absolute Fairness and Weighted Lotteries pp. 352-361

Lukas Tank, Nils Wendler and Jan Peter Carstensen-Mainka

Non-Conceptual Normative Pluralism and the Dualism of Practical Reason pp. 362-372

Jesse Hambly

Volume 36, issue 3, 2024

Classic Hedonism Reconsidered pp. 193-210

Vivian Feldblyum

Totalism, Animals, and the Repugnant Conclusion pp. 211-229

Gary David O'Brien

Partial Aggregation for Prioritarians pp. 230-241

Makan Nojoumian

Egalitarianism across Generations pp. 242-264

Andreas T. Schmidt

Intuition and Kagan's Hierarchicalism pp. 265-279

Xihe Ouyang

A Millian Case against Epistemic Arguments for Federalism pp. 280-299

Michael Da Silva

Trade, Piecework, and the Liberty Principle pp. 300-311

Jonathan Riley

Garrett Cullity, Concern, Respect, and Cooperation (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), pp. 326 pp. 312-315

Sophie Grace Chappell

William MacAskill, Krister Bykvist and Toby Ord, Moral Uncertainty (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. viii + 226 pp. 316-318

Simon Rosenqvist

Jeff Sebo, Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves: Why Animals Matter for Pandemics, Climate Change, and Other Catastrophes (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022), pp. xvii + 255 pp. 318-321

Kyle Johannsen

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