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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
A Philosophical Metabolism Problem: Undermining of Egoistic Reasons10
A Letter from the New Editor9
The Decline of Egoism8
Precious Goods7
Garrett Cullity, Concern, Respect, and Cooperation (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), pp. 326.7
Troubled Hedonism and Social Justice: Mill and the Epicureans on the Ataraxic Life6
Egalitarianism across Generations5
Jeanine M. Grenberg, Kant’s Deontological Eudaemonism: The Dutiful Pursuit of Virtue and Happiness (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2022), pp. xii + 414.4
Christopher Woodard, Taking Utilitarianism Seriously (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2019), pp. xii + 217.4
Family and Moderation in Locke’s State of Nature4
Degrees and Demands4
Superiority Discounting Implies the Preposterous Conclusion4
UTI volume 34 issue 4 Cover and Back matter3
What if We Contain Multiple Morally Relevant Subjects?3
John Stuart Mill's Passage on Pimps and the Limits on Free Speech3
Roger Crisp, Sacrifice Regained: Morality and Self-Interest in British Moral Philosophy from Hobbes to Bentham (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2019), pp. x + 233.2
Some Acts Really Harm: A Defense of the Standard Account versus Norcross's Contextualism2
Joseph Heath, Philosophical Foundations of Climate Change Policy (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2021), pp. 339.2
A Thomistic Solution to the Deep Problem for Perfectionism2
What Is the Point of a Duty of Beneficence? Reevaluating Taurek2
F. M. Kamm, Almost Over: Aging, Dying, Dead (New York: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. xii + 330.2
Three Forms of Actualist Direct Consequentialism2
The Prospects for ‘Prospect Utilitarianism’2
Michael Quinn, Bentham (Cambridge and Medford: Polity Press, 2022), pp. x + 218.2
The Golden Rule: A Naturalistic Perspective2
Reply to Jay on Subjective Consequentialism and Deontic Variance2
UTI volume 34 issue 1 Cover and Back matter2
A Less Bad Theory of the Procreation Asymmetry and the Non-Identity Problem1
Trivially Satisfied Desires: A Problem for Desire-Satisfaction Theories of Well-Being1
Tim Mulgan , Philosophy for an Ending World (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2024), pp. xxxiv + 292.1
Rule Consequentialism and Demandingness: The Wrong Solution(s)?1
How Should Risk and Ambiguity Affect Our Charitable Giving?1
Harm, Failing to Benefit, and the Counterfactual Comparative Account1
Sidgwick’s Critique of Deontology: Scrupulous Fairness or Serpent-Windings?1
A Letter from the Editor1
Posthumous Harm and Changing Desires1
The Disjunctive Repugnant Conclusion1
Helen McCabe, John Stuart Mill, Socialist (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2021), pp. 368.1
Douglas Portmore, Opting for the Best: Oughts and Options (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019), pp. xvii + 324.1
In Defence of Pigou–Dalton for Chances1
Absolute Fairness and Weighted Lotteries1
Shelly Kagan , Answering Moral Skepticism (New York: Oxford University Press), pp. xiv + 392.1
Ben Bramble & James Lenman, Should We Maximize Utility? A Debate about Utilitarianism (Abingdon, Routledge, 2025), pp. xviii + 224.1
Reciprocity, Inequality, and Unsuccessful Rescues1
Moral Significance and Overpermissiveness1
Dead Sea Apple Cases of Disappointment1
How Thresholds Matter: On the Bounds and Demands of Justice0
The Function of Hypocrisy Norms0
Jonathan Pugh, Autonomy, Rationality, and Contemporary Bioethics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 287.0
Benatar and Beyond: Rethinking the Consequences of Asymmetry0
M. A. Roberts, The Existence Puzzle: An Introduction to Population Axiology (New York: Oxford University Press, 2024), pp. 280.0
Intuition and Kagan's Hierarchicalism0
John Peter DiIulio, Completely Free: The Moral and Political Vision of John Stuart Mill (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022), pp. xiii + 305.0
Catia Faria, Animal Ethics in the Wild: Wild Animal Suffering and Intervention in Nature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023), pp. ix + 222.0
James E. Crimmins, Utilitarianism in the Early American Republic (New York: Routledge, 2022), pp. 280.0
The Definition of Consequentialism: A Survey0
UTI volume 34 issue 2 Cover and Back 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
Intergenerational Justice and Freedom from Deprivation0
Climate Esoteric Morality and the Problem of Inconsequentialism0
Classic Hedonism Reconsidered0
Bentham's Mugging0
UTI volume 34 issue 3 Cover and Back matter0
The Counterfactual Argument Against Abortion0
Principle, Pragmatism, and Piecework in On Liberty0
Egyptians, Aliens, and Okies: Against the Sum of Averages0
When a Free Act Costs a Motive: Clearing Consequentialism of Conflict0
Weak Superiority, Imprecise Equality and the Repugnant Conclusion – Erratum0
William MacAskill, What We Owe The Future: A Million-Year View (One World Publications, London, 2022), pp. 246.0
Non-Conceptual Normative Pluralism and the Dualism of Practical Reason0
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
Doing Harm: A Reply to Klocksiem0
The Morality of Creating Lives Not Worth Living: On Boonin's Solution to the Non-Identity Problem0
Bentham’s Laws in Principem and his Command Theory: a Critique of Hart’s Criticisms0
Bain's Theory of Moral Judgment and the Development of Mill's Utilitarianism0
Hidden Desires: A Unified Strategy for Defending the Desire-Satisfaction Theory0
The Cosmic Significance of Directed Panspermia: Should Humanity Spread Life to Other Solar Systems?0
Intersubstrate Welfare Comparisons: Important, Difficult, and Potentially Tractable0
Felt-Quality Hedonism, Alienation, and the Spirit of Resonance0
Harm, Context, Blame, and Significance: A Response to Eggleston, Sinnott-Armstrong, Mason, and Kagan0
For the Greater Individual and Social Good: Justifying Age-Differentiated Paternalism0
David Boonin, Dead Wrong: The Ethics of Posthumous Harm (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019), pp. xii + 209.0
The Worse than Nothing Account of Harm: A Fallen Hero0
Clifford's Consequentialism0
UTI volume 34 issue 3 Cover and Front matter0
The Sequence Argument Against the Procreation Asymmetry0
A Millian Case against Epistemic Arguments for Federalism0
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
Ending Print Publication After December 2022 Issue0
UTI volume 34 issue 2 Cover and Front matter0
Fit and Well-Being0
Paul Hurley, Against the Tyranny of Outcomes (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2024), pp. xv + 1870
Does the Patterned View Avoid the Ideal Worlds Objection?0
Pattern-Based Reasons and Disaster0
Mark Fabian, A Theory of Subjective Wellbeing (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022), pp. x + 305.0
Self-Respect Paternalism0
Don't Go Chasing Waterfalls: Against Hayward's “Utility Cascades”0
The Parent Trap: Why Choice-Dependent Moral Theories Fail to Deliver the Asymmetry0
From Contextualism to Contrastivism in Moral Theory0
Structural Rationality in Desire0
Michael Pelczar, Phenomenalism: A Metaphysics of Chance and Experience (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023), pp. xiii + 210.0
Totalism, Animals, and the Repugnant Conclusion0
Psychological Egoism and Ought-Implies-Can: What Do They Entail?0
Samuel Scheffler, One Life to Lead: The Mysteries of Time and the Goods of Attachment. (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2024), pp. xi + 2510
Of trolleys and self-driving cars: What machine ethicists can and cannot learn from trolleyology0
Josh Milburn, Food, Justice, and Animals: Feeding the World Respectfully (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023), pp. 224.0
Toni Rønnow-Rasmussen, The Value Gap (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022), pp. xv + 215.0
UTI volume 34 issue 1 Cover and Front matter0
Bodily Appearance, Respect for Persons, and Protecting the Vulnerable0
Normative Resilience0
Trade, Piecework, and the Liberty Principle0
UTI volume 34 issue 4 Cover and Front matter0
Bigoted Insults, Harm, and the Intentional Infliction of Pain: A Reply to Bell0
We Must Always Pursue Economic Growth0
Partial Aggregation for Prioritarians0
Alastair Norcross, Morality by Degrees: Reasons without Demands (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. vii + 157.0
William MacAskill, Krister Bykvist and Toby Ord, Moral Uncertainty (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. viii + 226.0
Age and Illness Severity: A Case of Irrelevant Utilities?0
Steve Clarke, Hazem Zohny, and Julian Savulescu (eds.), Rethinking Moral Status (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021), pp. xvii + 333.0
J. S. Mill's Anti-Imperialist Defence of Empire0
Concurrent Awareness Desire Satisfactionism0
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
Is Piecework a Private Concern? A Reply to Riley0
Inder Marwah, Liberalism, Diversity and Domination: Kant, Mill, and the Government of Difference (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019), pp. x + 298.0
Is Norcross Right about Right?0
Hilary Greaves, Jacob Barrett, David Thorstad, Essays on Longtermism: Present Action for the Distant Future (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2025), pp. 6080
Indeterminacy in Global Warming: A Supervaluationist Response0
Larry Temkin, Being Good in a World of Need (Oxford University Press, 2022), pp. xxxi + 388.0
Well-being and the Problem of Unstable Desires0
Compatibilism and Truly Minimal Morality0
The Good and the Wrong of Hypocritical Blaming0
The Sum of Averages: An Egyptology-Proof Average View0
Lives, Limbs, and Liver Spots: The Threshold Approach to Limited Aggregation0
Robin Attfield, Applied Ethics: An Introduction (Cambridge, Polity Press, 2023), pp. vi + 218.0
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