Utilitas

1989 - 2024

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Volume 31, issue 4, 2019

Sidgwick's Dualism of Practical Reason, Evolutionary Debunking, and Moral Psychology pp. 361-377

Peter Andes

Not All Killings Are Equally Wrong pp. 378-394

Todd Karhu

Consequentialism and the Case of Symmetrical Attackers pp. 395-413

Stephen Kershnar

Why We Should be Negative about Positive Egalitarianism pp. 414-430

Shlomi Segall

Utility, Reason and Rhetoric: James Mill's Metaphor of the Historian as Judge pp. 431-449

Antis Loizides

On ‘Hybrid’ Theories of Personal Good pp. 450-462

Thomas Hurka

Moral Risk and Humane Farming pp. 463-476

Fayna Fuentes López

Bontly on Harm and the Non-Identity Problem pp. 477-481

Erik Carlson and Jens Johansson

Hanno Sauer, Debunking Arguments in Ethics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018), pp. xi + 244 pp. 482-486

Michael Klenk

Tommie Shelby and Brandon M. Terry (eds.), To Shape a New World: Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr. (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2018), pp. 464. $35.00 pp. 486-493

Bart Schultz

Volume 31, issue 3, 2019

Asymmetry and Non-Identity pp. 213-230

Per Algander and Katharina Berndt Rasmussen

Practical Ethics Given Moral Uncertainty pp. 231-245

William MacAskill

Bentham on Temptation and Deterrence pp. 246-261

Steven Sverdlik

Effective Altruism and Systemic Change pp. 262-276

Antonin Broi

Constructivism about Intertheoretic Comparisons pp. 277-290

Stefan Riedener

Navigating by the North Star: The Role of the ‘Ideal’ in John Stuart Mill's View of ‘Utopian’ Schemes and the Possibilities of Social Transformation pp. 291-309

Helen McCabe

Altruism and Desert pp. 310-325

Sean Clancy

Collective Obligations and the Institutional Critique of Effective Altruism: A Reply to Alexander Dietz pp. 326-333

Brian Berkey

Consequentialism and Robust Goods pp. 334-342

Vuko Andrić

Matti Eklund, Choosing Normative Concepts (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), ix + 219 pp pp. 343-347

Krister Bykvist and Jonas Olson

Reply to Bykvist and Olson pp. 347-349

Matti Eklund

Colin Marshall, Compassionate Moral Realism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), pp. ix + 265 pp. 350-353

Michael Bukoski

Holly M. Smith, Making Morality Work (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), pp. xiv + 410 pp. 353-355

Simon Rosenqvist

Niall O'Flaherty, Utilitarianism in the Age of Enlightenment: The Moral and Political Thought of William Paley (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019), pp. viii + 339 pp. 356-359

Max Skjönsberg

Volume 31, issue 2, 2019

Consequentialism and Moral Worth pp. 117-136

Nathaniel Sharadin

On Two Interpretations of the Desire-Satisfaction Theory of Prudential Value pp. 137-156

Joseph van Weelden

Preferences and Prudential Reasons pp. 157-178

Dale Dorsey

On the Importance of Species for Rule-Consequentialism: A Reply to Galvão pp. 179-190

Eze Paez

Bursting Bubbles? QALYs and Discrimination pp. 191-202

Ben Davies

David Sobel, From Valuing to Value: A Defense of Subjectivism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), pp. vii + 312 pp. 203-207

Owen C. King

Michael Tomasello, A Natural History of Human Morality (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016), pp. x + 194 pp. 207-211

Richard Joyce

Volume 31, issue 1, 2019

A Letter from the Editor pp. 1-2

Dale E. Miller

Against Anonymous Pareto pp. 3-19

Eran Fish

On the Anti-paternalist Project of Reconciliation pp. 20-37

Viki Møller Lyngby Pedersen

In Search of Greene's Argument pp. 38-58

Norbert Paulo

Skorupski and Broome on the Agent-Neutral/Relative Distinction pp. 59-82

Jamie Buckland

Moral Status and Agent-Centred Options pp. 83-105

Seth Lazar

Effective Altruism and Collective Obligations pp. 106-115

Alexander Dietz

Volume 30, issue 4, 2018

Experience Machines, Conflicting Intuitions and the Bipartite Characterization of Well-being pp. 383-398

Chad M. Stevenson

Moral Uncertainty and Moral Culpability pp. 399-416

Jay Geyer

Scales for Scope: A New Solution to the Scope Problem for Pro-Attitude-Based Well-Being pp. 417-438

Hasko von Kriegstein

Luminosity Failure, Normative Guidance and the Principle ‘Ought-Implies-Can’ pp. 439-457

Nick Hughes

Rule-Consequentialism's Assumptions pp. 458-471

Kevin P. Tobia

Unconscious Pleasures and Pains: A Problem for Attitudinal Theories? pp. 472-482

Fred Feldman

Does the Collapsing Principle Rule Out Borderline Cases? pp. 483-492

Johan Gustafsson

Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek and Peter Singer, Utilitarianism: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), pp. xxii + 138 pp. 493-498

Bart Schultz

Anna Alexandrova, A Philosophy for the Science of Well-Being (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017), pp. xlv + 196 pp. 498-500

Richard Kim

Volume 30, issue 3, 2018

Simply Good: A Defence of the Principia pp. 253-270

Miles Tucker

Mill's Metaethical Non-cognitivism pp. 271-293

Peter Zuk

From Theory to Practice: Bentham's Reception of Helvétius pp. 294-316

Matthias Hoesch

Insane Consequentialism: A Pragmatic Objection to Direct Consequentialism pp. 317-332

Nick Zangwill

The Enemy of the Good: Supererogation and Requiring Perfection pp. 333-354

Claire Benn

The Universal Scope of Positive Duties Correlative to Human Rights pp. 355-378

Marinella Capriati

Owen Flanagan, The Geography of Morals: Varieties of Moral Possibility (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017), pp. x + 362 pp. 379-382

Eirik Lang Harris

Volume 30, issue 2, 2018

A Working Test for Well-being pp. 129-142

Tobias A. Fuchs

The Institutional Critique of Effective Altruism pp. 143-171

Brian Berkey

Prioritarianism: Room for Desert? pp. 172-197

Matthew D. Adler

Well-Being without Being? A Reply to Feit pp. 198-208

Erik Carlson and Jens Johansson

Still Lives for Headaches: A reply to Dorsey and Voorhoeve pp. 209-218

Julius Schönherr

Unconscious Pleasures and Attitudinal Theories of Pleasure pp. 219-227

Chris Heathwood

Aggregate Relevant Claims in Rescue Cases? pp. 228-236

Johanna Privitera

James A. Harris, Hume: An Intellectual Biography (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015), pp. xiii + 621 pp. 237-241

Marc Hanvelt

Derk Pereboom, Free Will, Agency and Meaning in Life (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), pp. 219 pp. 241-244

Sofia Jeppsson

Ingmar Persson, Inclusive Ethics: Extending Beneficence and Egalitarian Justice (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), pp. vii + 272 pp. 244-248

David Degrazia

Bart Schultz, The Happiness Philosophers: The Lives and Works of the Great Utilitarians (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017), pp. 456 pp. 248-252

Mariko Nakano-Okuno, Makoto Suzuki and Satoshi Kodama

Volume 30, issue 1, 2018

Good Night and Good Luck: In Search of a Neuroscience Challenge to Criminal Justice pp. 1-31

Frej Klem Thomsen

The Problem with Yuppie Ethics pp. 32-53

Iason Gabriel

Prichard's Arguments against Ideal Utilitarianism pp. 54-72

Robert Shaver

Guidance, Obligations and Ability: A Close Look at the Action Guidance Argument for Ought-Implies-Can pp. 73-85

Nick Hughes

John Gay and the Birth of Utilitarianism pp. 86-106

Getty L. Lustila

Permissibility and the Aggregation of Risks pp. 107-119

James R. Kirkpatrick

Philip Pettit, The Robust Demands of the Good: Ethics with Attachment, Virtue and Respect (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015), pp. x + 281 pp. 120-123

Gerard Vong

Tim Mulgan, Purpose in the Universe: The Moral and Metaphysical Case for Ananthropocentric Purposivism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015), pp. 435 pp. 123-127

Kirsten Egerstrom