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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
A Philosophical Metabolism Problem: Undermining of Egoistic Reasons11
Garrett Cullity, Concern, Respect, and Cooperation (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), pp. 326.10
Harm-Benefit Analysis for Animal Experiments Is Not Utilitarian10
A Letter from the New Editor10
Egalitarianism across Generations8
Degrees and Demands6
Family and Moderation in Locke’s State of Nature4
Precious Goods4
Troubled Hedonism and Social Justice: Mill and the Epicureans on the Ataraxic Life4
Jeanine M. Grenberg, Kant’s Deontological Eudaemonism: The Dutiful Pursuit of Virtue and Happiness (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2022), pp. xii + 414.3
Superiority Discounting Implies the Preposterous Conclusion3
UTI volume 34 issue 4 Cover and Back matter3
Roger Crisp, Sacrifice Regained: Morality and Self-Interest in British Moral Philosophy from Hobbes to Bentham (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2019), pp. x + 233.3
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
A Thomistic Solution to the Deep Problem for Perfectionism2
A Less Bad Theory of the Procreation Asymmetry and the Non-Identity Problem2
Posthumous Harm and Changing Desires2
Longtermism, Technology, and Well-Being2
What Is the Point of a Duty of Beneficence? Reevaluating Taurek2
The Subjectivity Argument against the Intrinsic Value of Pleasure2
Mill’s Aesthetic Action: A Reconceptualization as World-Regarding Action2
Tim Mulgan , Philosophy for an Ending World (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2024), pp. xxxiv + 292.2
Three Forms of Actualist Direct Consequentialism2
Absolute Fairness and Weighted Lotteries2
Some Acts Really Harm: A Defense of the Standard Account versus Norcross's Contextualism2
Shelly Kagan, Answering Moral Skepticism (New York: Oxford University Press), pp. xiv + 392.2
Trivially Satisfied Desires: A Problem for Desire-Satisfaction Theories of Well-Being2
Partial Aggregation for Prioritarians1
Thomas E. Hill Jr., Beyond Duty: Kantian Ideals of Respect, Beneficence, and Appreciation (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021), pp. xii + 319.1
How Should Risk and Ambiguity Affect Our Charitable Giving?1
The Disjunctive Repugnant Conclusion1
Harm, Failing to Benefit, and the Counterfactual Comparative Account1
The Definition of Consequentialism: A Survey1
Bigoted Insults, Harm, and the Intentional Infliction of Pain: A Reply to Bell1
Minds Matter1
Helen McCabe, John Stuart Mill, Socialist (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2021), pp. 368.1
Moral Significance and Overpermissiveness1
Should the Numbers Count for Taurek?1
Rule Consequentialism and Demandingness: The Wrong Solution(s)?1
Sidgwick’s Critique of Deontology: Scrupulous Fairness or Serpent-Windings?1
In Defence of Pigou–Dalton for Chances1
Enduring Objections to Actual Rule Consequentialism1
From Trust to Corporate Agency: An Argument in Social Ontology1
Douglas Portmore, Opting for the Best: Oughts and Options (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019), pp. xvii + 324.1
Reciprocity, Inequality, and Unsuccessful Rescues1
Ben Bramble & James Lenman, Should We Maximize Utility? A Debate about Utilitarianism (Abingdon, Routledge, 2025), pp. xviii + 224.1
Dead Sea Apple Cases of Disappointment1
David Boonin, Dead Wrong: The Ethics of Posthumous Harm (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019), pp. xii + 209.1
William MacAskill, What We Owe The Future: A Million-Year View (One World Publications, London, 2022), pp. 246.0
The Good and the Wrong of Hypocritical Blaming0
The Sum of Averages: An Egyptology-Proof Average View0
Is Piecework a Private Concern? A Reply to Riley0
Josh Milburn, Food, Justice, and Animals: Feeding the World Respectfully (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023), pp. 224.0
Is Norcross Right about Right?0
UTI volume 34 issue 4 Cover and Front matter0
Self-Respect Paternalism0
Larry Temkin, Being Good in a World of Need (Oxford University Press, 2022), pp. xxxi + 388.0
The Worse than Nothing Account of Harm: A Fallen Hero0
Benatar and Beyond: Rethinking the Consequences of Asymmetry0
Counterfactual Persons and the Argument Against Abortion: Reply to Kulesa0
From Contextualism to Contrastivism in Moral Theory0
Trade, Piecework, and the Liberty Principle0
Bain's Theory of Moral Judgment and the Development of Mill's Utilitarianism0
Non-Conceptual Normative Pluralism and the Dualism of Practical Reason0
Bentham's Mugging0
Classic Hedonism Reconsidered0
The Morality of Creating Lives Not Worth Living: On Boonin's Solution to the Non-Identity Problem0
Intergenerational Justice and Freedom from Deprivation0
Alastair Norcross, Morality by Degrees: Reasons without Demands (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. vii + 157.0
When is Forgone Value Proportionate?0
How Relationships Mitigate Paternalistic Complaints (When They Do)0
Ending Print Publication After December 2022 Issue0
Felt-Quality Hedonism, Alienation, and the Spirit of Resonance0
Can Vegans Eat Dessert?0
Robin Attfield, Applied Ethics: An Introduction (Cambridge, Polity Press, 2023), pp. vi + 218.0
Egyptians, Aliens, and Okies: Against the Sum of Averages0
The Sequence Argument Against the Procreation Asymmetry0
How Thresholds Matter: On the Bounds and Demands of Justice0
Must We Always Pursue Economic Growth?0
Psychological Egoism and Ought-Implies-Can: What Do They Entail?0
Climate Esoteric Morality and the Problem of Inconsequentialism0
Doing Harm: A Reply to Klocksiem0
Steve Clarke, Hazem Zohny, and Julian Savulescu (eds.), Rethinking Moral Status (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021), pp. xvii + 333.0
Better Never to Have Been, Better to Cease to Be?0
Bodily Appearance, Respect for Persons, and Protecting the Vulnerable0
Robert Audi and David Philips (eds.), The Moral Philosophy of W.D. Ross: Metaethics, Normative Ethics, Virtue, & Value (Oxford, OUP, 2025), pp. xii + 272.0
Catia Faria, Animal Ethics in the Wild: Wild Animal Suffering and Intervention in Nature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023), pp. ix + 222.0
Intuition and Kagan's Hierarchicalism0
The Counterfactual Argument Against Abortion0
The Dual Reason-Giving Force of Welfare: An Exploration0
When a Free Act Costs a Motive: Clearing Consequentialism of Conflict0
James E. Crimmins, Utilitarianism in the Early American Republic (New York: Routledge, 2022), pp. 280.0
Principle, Pragmatism, and Piecework in On Liberty0
UTI volume 34 issue 3 Cover and Back matter0
Two Dogmas of Population Ethics: MacAskill’s Existentially Unrestricted Form of Longtermism and the Value of Existence0
Hidden Desires: A Unified Strategy for Defending the Desire-Satisfaction Theory0
Jeremy Bentham , Essays on Logic, Ethics, and Universal Grammar, Edited by Philip Schofield (London, UCL Press, 2025), pp. lxxvi + 519.0
An Unwelcome Implication for Omnivores?0
Samuel Scheffler, One Life to Lead: The Mysteries of Time and the Goods of Attachment. (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2024), pp. xi + 2510
The Washout Argument against Longtermism0
Concurrent Awareness Desire Satisfactionism0
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
Of trolleys and self-driving cars: What machine ethicists can and cannot learn from trolleyology0
The Parent Trap: Why Choice-Dependent Moral Theories Fail to Deliver the Asymmetry0
Well-being and the Problem of Unstable Desires0
William MacAskill, Krister Bykvist and Toby Ord, Moral Uncertainty (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. viii + 226.0
Paul Hurley, Against the Tyranny of Outcomes (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2024), pp. xv + 1870
The Influence of Ancient Greek Moral Philosophy on Bentham’s Development of the Principle of Utility: “I Had It from Epicurus, from Carneades,…”0
Hilary Greaves, Jacob Barrett, David Thorstad, Essays on Longtermism: Present Action for the Distant Future (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2025), pp. 6080
Fit and Well-Being0
For the Greater Individual and Social Good: Justifying Age-Differentiated Paternalism0
Indeterminacy in Global Warming: A Supervaluationist Response0
Pattern-Based Reasons and Disaster0
John Peter DiIulio, Completely Free: The Moral and Political Vision of John Stuart Mill (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022), pp. xiii + 305.0
M. A. Roberts, The Existence Puzzle: An Introduction to Population Axiology (New York: Oxford University Press, 2024), pp. 280.0
Totalism, Animals, and the Repugnant Conclusion0
Harm, Context, Blame, and Significance: A Response to Eggleston, Sinnott-Armstrong, Mason, and Kagan0
Intersubstrate Welfare Comparisons: Important, Difficult, and Potentially Tractable0
Compatibilism and Truly Minimal Morality0
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
We Must Always Pursue Economic Growth0
Michael Pelczar, Phenomenalism: A Metaphysics of Chance and Experience (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023), pp. xiii + 210.0
Mark Fabian, A Theory of Subjective Wellbeing (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022), pp. x + 305.0
Why It Matters That Some Are Worse Off Than Those Who Could Have Existed0
The Function of Hypocrisy Norms0
Bentham’s Laws in Principem and his Command Theory: a Critique of Hart’s Criticisms0
A Millian Case against Epistemic Arguments for Federalism0
Philip Schofield, Tim Causer and Chris Riley (eds.), The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, Volume 14: Supplementary Letters (London: UCL Press, 2026) pp. xxiv + 701.0
Toni Rønnow-Rasmussen, The Value Gap (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022), pp. xv + 215.0
UTI volume 34 issue 3 Cover and Front matter0
Lives, Limbs, and Liver Spots: The Threshold Approach to Limited Aggregation0
Structural Rationality in Desire0
Does the Patterned View Avoid the Ideal Worlds Objection?0
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