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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
A Letter from the New Editor11
The Decline of Egoism10
A Philosophical Metabolism Problem: Undermining of Egoistic Reasons10
Degrees and Demands9
Troubled Hedonism and Social Justice: Mill and the Epicureans on the Ataraxic Life8
Garrett Cullity, Concern, Respect, and Cooperation (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), pp. 326.7
Egalitarianism across Generations6
Christopher Woodard, Taking Utilitarianism Seriously (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2019), pp. xii + 217.5
Superiority Discounting Implies the Preposterous Conclusion5
What if We Contain Multiple Morally Relevant Subjects?4
UTI volume 34 issue 4 Cover and Back matter4
UTI volume 33 issue 4 Cover and Front matter4
UTI volume 34 issue 1 Cover and Back matter3
The Golden Rule: A Naturalistic Perspective3
Three Forms of Actualist Direct Consequentialism3
The Prospects for ‘Prospect Utilitarianism’3
Michael Quinn, Bentham (Cambridge and Medford: Polity Press, 2022), pp. x + 218.3
John Stuart Mill's Passage on Pimps and the Limits on Free Speech3
A Thomistic Solution to the Deep Problem for Perfectionism3
Roger Crisp, Sacrifice Regained: Morality and Self-Interest in British Moral Philosophy from Hobbes to Bentham (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2019), pp. x + 233.2
Joseph Heath, Philosophical Foundations of Climate Change Policy (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2021), pp. 339.2
F. M. Kamm, Almost Over: Aging, Dying, Dead (New York: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. xii + 330.2
Some Acts Really Harm: A Defense of the Standard Account versus Norcross's Contextualism2
Absolute Fairness and Weighted Lotteries2
Trivially Satisfied Desires: A Problem for Desire-Satisfaction Theories of Well-Being2
Reply to Jay on Subjective Consequentialism and Deontic Variance2
Who Authored On Liberty? Stylometric Evidence on Harriet Taylor Mill's Contribution2
A Less Bad Theory of the Procreation Asymmetry and the Non-Identity Problem2
Partial Aggregation for Prioritarians1
Moral Significance and Overpermissiveness1
Reciprocity, Inequality, and Unsuccessful Rescues1
Tim Mulgan , Philosophy for an Ending World (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2024), pp. xxxiv + 292.1
The Harm Principle and the Nature of Harm1
Dead Sea Apple Cases of Disappointment1
Bigoted Insults, Harm, and the Intentional Infliction of Pain: A Reply to Bell1
The Definition of Consequentialism: A Survey1
Douglas Portmore, Opting for the Best: Oughts and Options (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019), pp. xvii + 324.1
Posthumous Harm and Changing Desires1
How Should Risk and Ambiguity Affect Our Charitable Giving?1
Clifford's Consequentialism1
Helen McCabe, John Stuart Mill, Socialist (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2021), pp. 368.1
David Boonin, Dead Wrong: The Ethics of Posthumous Harm (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019), pp. xii + 209.1
Harm, Failing to Benefit, and the Counterfactual Comparative Account1
Rule Consequentialism and Demandingness: The Wrong Solution(s)?1
Sidgwick’s Critique of Deontology: Scrupulous Fairness or Serpent-Windings?1
Ben Bramble & James Lenman , Should We Maximize Utility? A Debate about Utilitarianism (Abingdon, Routledge, 2025), pp. xviii + 224.1
A Letter from the Editor1
In Defence of Pigou–Dalton for Chances1
Climate Change and Non-Identity1
Enrica Chiappero-Martinetti, Siddiqur Osmani, and Mozaffar Qizilbash (eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of the Capability Approach (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021), pp. xxii + 718.0
The Worse than Nothing Account of Harm: A Fallen Hero0
Principle, Pragmatism, and Piecework in On Liberty0
Pattern-Based Reasons and Disaster0
Psychological Egoism and Ought-Implies-Can: What Do They Entail?0
M. A. Roberts, The Existence Puzzle: An Introduction to Population Axiology (New York: Oxford University Press, 2024), pp. 280.0
Bain's Theory of Moral Judgment and the Development of Mill's Utilitarianism0
Michael Pelczar, Phenomenalism: A Metaphysics of Chance and Experience (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023), pp. xiii + 210.0
Concurrent Awareness Desire Satisfactionism0
John Peter DiIulio, Completely Free: The Moral and Political Vision of John Stuart Mill (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022), pp. xiii + 305.0
The Morality of Creating Lives Not Worth Living: On Boonin's Solution to the Non-Identity Problem0
We Must Always Pursue Economic Growth0
Intuition and Kagan's Hierarchicalism0
Bentham’s Laws in Principem and his Command Theory: a Critique of Hart’s Criticisms0
The Function of Hypocrisy Norms0
Inder Marwah, Liberalism, Diversity and Domination: Kant, Mill, and the Government of Difference (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019), pp. x + 298.0
UTI volume 34 issue 2 Cover and Front matter0
A Millian Case against Epistemic Arguments for Federalism0
William MacAskill, Krister Bykvist and Toby Ord, Moral Uncertainty (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. viii + 226.0
Guy Fletcher, Dear Prudence (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021), pp. 1–223.0
The Good and the Wrong of Hypocritical Blaming0
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
Ending Print Publication After December 2022 Issue0
Subjectivism and Degrees of Well-Being0
UTI volume 34 issue 1 Cover and Front matter0
Weak Superiority, Imprecise Equality and the Repugnant Conclusion – Erratum0
Egyptians, Aliens, and Okies: Against the Sum of Averages0
Self-Respect Paternalism0
Catia Faria, Animal Ethics in the Wild: Wild Animal Suffering and Intervention in Nature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023), pp. ix + 222.0
The Sum of Averages: An Egyptology-Proof Average View0
Limits to Aggregation and Uncertain Rescues0
Normative Resilience0
How Thresholds Matter: On the Bounds and Demands of Justice0
Indeterminacy in Global Warming: A Supervaluationist Response0
Mark Fabian, A Theory of Subjective Wellbeing (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022), pp. x + 305.0
Doing Harm: A Reply to Klocksiem0
Compatibilism and Truly Minimal Morality0
For the Greater Individual and Social Good: Justifying Age-Differentiated Paternalism0
Lives, Limbs, and Liver Spots: The Threshold Approach to Limited Aggregation0
James E. Crimmins, Utilitarianism in the Early American Republic (New York: Routledge, 2022), pp. 280.0
Jonathan Pugh, Autonomy, Rationality, and Contemporary Bioethics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 287.0
The Counterfactual Argument Against Abortion0
Felt-Quality Hedonism, Alienation, and the Spirit of Resonance0
Classic Hedonism Reconsidered0
Harm, Context, Blame, and Significance: A Response to Eggleston, Sinnott-Armstrong, Mason, and Kagan0
UTI volume 34 issue 4 Cover and Front matter0
Toni Rønnow-Rasmussen, The Value Gap (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022), pp. xv + 215.0
UTI volume 34 issue 3 Cover and Front matter0
Thomas E. Hill Jr., Beyond Duty: Kantian Ideals of Respect, Beneficence, and Appreciation (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021), pp. xii + 319.0
An Unwelcome Implication for Omnivores?0
Must We Always Pursue Economic Growth?0
Never Just Save the Few0
Climate Esoteric Morality and the Problem of Inconsequentialism0
Collective Reasons and Agent-Relativity0
When a Free Act Costs a Motive: Clearing Consequentialism of Conflict0
William MacAskill, What We Owe The Future: A Million-Year View (One World Publications, London, 2022), pp. 246.0
Does the Patterned View Avoid the Ideal Worlds Objection?0
From Contextualism to Contrastivism in Moral Theory0
Don't Go Chasing Waterfalls: Against Hayward's “Utility Cascades”0
Does Abortion Harm the Fetus?0
Totalism, Animals, and the Repugnant Conclusion0
Well-being and the Problem of Unstable Desires0
Ex-Ante Prioritarianism Violates Sequential Ex-Ante Pareto0
Larry Temkin, Being Good in a World of Need (Oxford University Press, 2022), pp. xxxi + 388.0
Structural Rationality in Desire0
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
Bentham's Mugging0
Josh Milburn, Food, Justice, and Animals: Feeding the World Respectfully (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023), pp. 224.0
Non-Conceptual Normative Pluralism and the Dualism of Practical Reason0
Benatar and Beyond: Rethinking the Consequences of Asymmetry0
Hidden Desires: A Unified Strategy for Defending the Desire-Satisfaction Theory0
Trade, Piecework, and the Liberty Principle0
The Cosmic Significance of Directed Panspermia: Should Humanity Spread Life to Other Solar Systems?0
Intersubstrate Welfare Comparisons: Important, Difficult, and Potentially Tractable0
UTI volume 33 issue 4 Cover and Back matter0
UTI volume 34 issue 2 Cover and Back matter0
Intergenerational Justice and Freedom from Deprivation0
Alastair Norcross, Morality by Degrees: Reasons without Demands (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. vii + 157.0
The Sequence Argument Against the Procreation Asymmetry0
Age and Illness Severity: A Case of Irrelevant Utilities?0
J. S. Mill's Anti-Imperialist Defence of Empire0
Steve Clarke, Hazem Zohny, and Julian Savulescu (eds.), Rethinking Moral Status (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021), pp. xvii + 333.0
Fit and Well-Being0
Of trolleys and self-driving cars: What machine ethicists can and cannot learn from trolleyology0
UTI volume 34 issue 3 Cover and Back matter0
Robin Attfield, Applied Ethics: An Introduction (Cambridge, Polity Press, 2023), pp. vi + 218.0
Is Norcross Right about Right?0
T. M. Scanlon, Why Does Inequality Matter? (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), pp. 192.0
Human Extinction and Moral Worthwhileness0
The Parent Trap: Why Choice-Dependent Moral Theories Fail to Deliver the Asymmetry0
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