Utilitas

1989 - 2024

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Volume 33, issue 4, 2021

What Should We Agree on about the Repugnant Conclusion? pp. 379-383

Stéphane Zuber, Nikhil Venkatesh, Torbjörn Tännsjö, Christian Tarsney, H. Orri Stefánsson, Katie Steele, Dean Spears, Jeff Sebo, Marcus Pivato, Toby Ord, Yew-Kwang Ng, Michal Masny, William MacAskill, Nicholas Lawson, Kevin Kuruc, Michelle Hutchinson, Johan Gustafsson, Hilary Greaves, Lisa Forsberg, Marc Fleurbaey, Diane Coffey, Sususmu Cato, Clinton Castro, Tim Campbell, Mark Budolfson, John Broome, Alexander Berger, Nick Beckstead and Geir Asheim

Susanna Newcome and the Origins of Utilitarianism pp. 384-398

Patrick J. Connolly

A New Argument Against Critical-Level Utilitarianism pp. 399-416

Patrick Williamson

Negative Utility Monsters pp. 417-421

Richard Yetter Chappell

Thresholds in Distributive Justice pp. 422-441

Dick Timmer

Two Pessimisms in Mill pp. 442-457

Joshua Isaac Fox

I, Trolley: Self-Redirection and Hybrid Trolley Cases pp. 458-473

Dustin Locke

Setiya on Consequentialism and Constraints pp. 474-479

Ryan Cox and Matthew Hammerton

Reply to Bykvist and Campbell on Possible Beings pp. 480-487

Ingmar Persson

The Significance of Tiny Contributions: Barnett and Beyond pp. 488-496

Erik Carlson, Magnus Jedenheim Edling and Jens Johansson

Emmanuelle de Champs, Enlightenment and Utility: Bentham in French, Bentham in France (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015), pp. viii + 230 pp. 497-500

R. J. W. Mills

Matthew D. Adler, Measuring Social Welfare: An Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019), pp. 317 pp. 500-502

Campbell Brown

Eliot Michaelson and Andreas Stokke (eds.), Lying: Language, Knowledge, Ethics, and Politics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), pp. 320 pp. 502-505

Neri Marsili

Guy Fletcher, Dear Prudence (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021), pp. 1–223 pp. 505-509

Christopher Frugé

Volume 33, issue 3, 2021

Comprehensive or Political Liberalism? The Impartial Spectator and the Justification of Political Principles pp. 253-269

Nir Ben-Moshe

Finding Pleasure and Satisfaction in Perfectionism pp. 270-286

Michael Hayes

Bentham's International Political Theory: Taking States’ Responsibilities Seriously pp. 287-303

Benjamin Bourcier

Equality for Prospective People: A Novel Statement and Defence pp. 304-320

Alex Voorhoeve

Sufficiency and the Minimally Good Life pp. 321-336

Nicole Hassoun

Value Conservatism and its Challenge to Consequentialism pp. 337-352

Reuben Sass

The Demandingness of Individual Climate Duties: A Reply to Fragnière pp. 353-360

Colin Hickey

Attitudinal Theories of Pleasure and De Re Desires pp. 361-369

Elizabeth Ventham

Shelly Kagan, How to Count Animals, More or Less (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019), pp. x + 309 pp. 370-373

Andrius Gališanka

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 pp. 373-377

D. N. Byrne

Volume 33, issue 2, 2021

Introduction: Updating Mill on Free Speech pp. 125-132

Piers Norris Turner

The Place of “The Liberty of Thought and Discussion” in On Liberty pp. 133-149

Dale E. Miller

Truth, Discussion, and Free Speech in On Liberty II pp. 150-161

Christopher Macleod

John Stuart Mill's Harm Principle and Free Speech: Expanding the Notion of Harm pp. 162-179

Melina Constantine Bell

J. S. Mill on Artistic Freedom and Censorship pp. 180-192

Rafael Cejudo

Inequality: Do Not Disperse pp. 193-203

David O'Brien

From Compliance, to Acceptance, to Teaching: On Relocating Rule Consequentialism's Stipulations pp. 204-220

Timothy D. Miller

Why Impossible Options Are Better: Consequentializing Dilemmas pp. 221-236

Brian Talbot

How to (Consistently) Reject the Options Argument pp. 237-245

Stephen M. Campbell, Joseph A. Stramondo and David Wasserman

Elijah Millgram, John Stuart Mill and the Meaning of Life (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019), pp. viii + 249 pp. 246-249

Antis Loizides

Maria Dimova-Cookson, Rethinking Positive and Negative Liberty (London and New York: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2020), pp. xvii + 251 pp. 249-251

Gary Browning

Volume 33, issue 1, 2021

Reasons Internalism and the Problem of Depression pp. 1-16

Andrew Spaid

Aggregation, Balancing, and Respect for the Claims of Individuals pp. 17-34

Bastian Steuwer

Paternalism as Punishment pp. 35-52

David Birks

Leaving Agent-Relative Value Behind pp. 53-67

Christa M. Johnson

The Irrationality of Adaptive Preferences: A Psychological and Semantic Account pp. 68-84

Seena Eftekhari

Subjectivism without Idealization and Adaptive Preferences pp. 85-100

Stéphane Lemaire

The Relevance View: Defended and Extended pp. 101-110

Kirsten Mann

A Second-Personal Solution to the Paradox of Moral Complaint pp. 111-117

Adam Piovarchy

Pascal's Mugger Strikes Again pp. 118-124

Dylan Balfour

Volume 32, issue 4, 2020

Why Derek Parfit had reasons to accept the Repugnant Conclusion pp. 387-397

Torbjörn Tännsjö

Meat Eating and Moral Responsibility: Exploring the Moral Distinctions between Meat Eaters and Puppy Torturers pp. 398-415

C. E. Abbate

Parfit on Act Consequentialism pp. 416-426

Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek and Peter Singer

What Is the Point of the Harshness Objection? pp. 427-443

Andreas Albertsen and Lasse Nielsen

Sidgwick's Distinction Passage pp. 444-453

Robert Shaver

Aggregation with Constraints pp. 454-471

Korbinian Rüger

Agent-Relative Consequentialism and Collective Self-Defeat pp. 472-478

Matthew Hammerton

Persson's Merely Possible Persons pp. 479-487

Krister Bykvist and Tim Campbell

Derek Parfit, On What Matters: Volume III (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), pp. xiv + 468 pp. 488-492

Rebecca Stangl

Hilary Greaves and Theron Pummer, Effective Altruism: Philosophical Issues (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019), pp. x + 247 pp. 492-495

Amy Berg

Samuel Scheffler, Why Worry About Future Generations? (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), pp. viii + 146 pp. 496-499

Tim Meijers and Angelieke L. Wolters

Fred Feldman, Distributive Justice: Getting What We Deserve from Our Country (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2016), pp. ix + 269. $55.00 pp. 499-502

Olga Lenczewska

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 pp. 502-505

Tsin Yen Koh

David Phillips, Rossian Ethics: W. D. Ross and Contemporary Moral Theory (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019), pp. 216 pp. 506-509

Robert Shaver

Volume 32, issue 3, 2020

The Political Philosophy of Henry Sidgwick pp. 261-275

David Miller

Valuing humane lives in two-level utilitarianism pp. 276-293

Nicolas Delon

Weak Superiority, Imprecise Equality and the Repugnant Conclusion pp. 294-315

Karsten Klint Jensen

Disability, Options and Well-Being pp. 316-334

Thomas Crawley

An “Ingenious Moralist”: Bernard Mandeville as a Precursor of Bentham pp. 335-349

Ryu Susato

The Vegan's Dilemma pp. 350-367

Donald W. Bruckner

Effectiveness and Demandingness pp. 368-381

Brian Berkey

Joshua May, Regard for Reason in the Moral Mind (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018), pp. 288. $64.00 pp. 382-385

Jesse S. Summers

Volume 32, issue 2, 2020

Mill's Evolutionary Theory of Justice: Reflections on Persky pp. 131-146

Piers Norris Turner

Mill's ‘Modern’ Radicalism Re-Examined: Joseph Persky's The Political Economy of Progress pp. 147-164

Helen McCabe

Mill's Socialism Re-examined pp. 165-180

Joseph Persky

Rethinking Hare's Analysis of Moral Thinking pp. 181-198

Steven Daskal

Human Extinction and Our Obligations to the Past pp. 199-208

Patrick Kaczmarek and Simon Beard

Deservingness Transfers pp. 209-218

Knut Olav Skarsaune

Mill's On Liberty and Social Pressure pp. 219-235

T. M. Wilkinson

The badness of pain pp. 236-252

Gwen Bradford

Jonathan Dancy, Practical Shape: A Theory of Practical Reasoning (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), pp. xi + 185. £30.00 pp. 253-256

Devlin Russell

Kristoffer Ahlstrom-Vij and Jeffrey Dunn (eds.), Epistemic Consequentialism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), pp. 352. $77.00 pp. 256-260

Nathaniel Sharadin

Volume 32, issue 1, 2020

Consequentialism and Respect: Two Strategies for Justifying Act Utilitarianism pp. 1-18

Ben Eggleston

Beyond Moral Efficiency: Effective Altruism and Theorizing about Effectiveness pp. 19-32

Federico Zuolo

Subjective Consequentialism and the Unforeseeable pp. 33-49

Christopher Jay

Civilian Immunity Without the Doctrine of Double Effect pp. 50-69

Yitzhak Benbaji and Susanne Burri

An Actualist Explanation of the Procreation Asymmetry pp. 70-89

Daniel Cohen

Meaning, Medicine, and Merit pp. 90-107

Andreas L. Mogensen

Satisficing Consequentialism Still Doesn't Satisfy pp. 108-117

Joe Slater

Do Fitting Emotions Tell Us Anything About Well-Being? pp. 118-125

James Fanciullo

Richard Joyce, Essays in Moral Skepticism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), pp. ix + 274 pp. 126-129

Jessica Isserow