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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
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 Generations5
Superiority Discounting Implies the Preposterous Conclusion4
UTI volume 34 issue 4 Cover and Back matter4
Christopher Woodard, Taking Utilitarianism Seriously (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2019), pp. xii + 217.4
UTI volume 33 issue 4 Cover and Front matter4
What if We Contain Multiple Morally Relevant Subjects?4
Three Forms of Actualist Direct Consequentialism3
UTI volume 34 issue 1 Cover and Back matter3
The Golden Rule: A Naturalistic Perspective3
John Stuart Mill's Passage on Pimps and the Limits on Free Speech3
A Thomistic Solution to the Deep Problem for Perfectionism3
UTI volume 33 issue 3 Cover and Front matter3
The Prospects for ‘Prospect Utilitarianism’3
Who Authored On Liberty? Stylometric Evidence on Harriet Taylor Mill's Contribution2
Reply to Jay on Subjective Consequentialism and Deontic Variance2
A Less Bad Theory of the Procreation Asymmetry and the Non-Identity Problem2
Absolute Fairness and Weighted Lotteries2
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
Michael Quinn, Bentham (Cambridge and Medford: Polity Press, 2022), pp. x + 218.2
Douglas Portmore, Opting for the Best: Oughts and Options (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019), pp. xvii + 324.1
Rule Consequentialism and Demandingness: The Wrong Solution(s)?1
A Letter from the Editor1
Trivially Satisfied Desires: A Problem for Desire-Satisfaction Theories of Well-Being1
Helen McCabe, John Stuart Mill, Socialist (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2021), pp. 368.1
Bigoted Insults, Harm, and the Intentional Infliction of Pain: A Reply to Bell1
The Definition of Consequentialism: A Survey1
In Defence of Pigou–Dalton for Chances1
Harm, Failing to Benefit, and the Counterfactual Comparative Account1
Reciprocity, Inequality, and Unsuccessful Rescues1
Posthumous Harm and Changing Desires1
How Should Risk and Ambiguity Affect Our Charitable Giving?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
Thomas E. Hill Jr., Beyond Duty: Kantian Ideals of Respect, Beneficence, and Appreciation (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021), pp. xii + 319.1
The Harm Principle and the Nature of Harm1
Tim Mulgan , Philosophy for an Ending World (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2024), pp. xxxiv + 292.1
Moral Significance and Overpermissiveness1
Partial Aggregation for Prioritarians1
Climate Change and Non-Identity1
Clifford's Consequentialism1
The Sequence Argument Against the Procreation Asymmetry1
Normative Resilience0
We Must Always Pursue Economic Growth0
Intersubstrate Welfare Comparisons: Important, Difficult, and Potentially Tractable0
Indeterminacy in Global Warming: A Supervaluationist Response0
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
UTI volume 34 issue 2 Cover and Back matter0
The Function of Hypocrisy Norms0
A Millian Case against Epistemic Arguments for Federalism0
Lives, Limbs, and Liver Spots: The Threshold Approach to Limited Aggregation0
Participation and Degrees0
Age and Illness Severity: A Case of Irrelevant Utilities?0
Felt-Quality Hedonism, Alienation, and the Spirit of Resonance0
Compatibilism and Truly Minimal Morality0
UTI volume 34 issue 3 Cover and Front matter0
Intergenerational Justice and Freedom from Deprivation0
The Worse than Nothing Account of Harm: A Fallen Hero0
Must We Always Pursue Economic Growth?0
Human Extinction and Moral Worthwhileness0
Climate Esoteric Morality and the Problem of Inconsequentialism0
Of trolleys and self-driving cars: What machine ethicists can and cannot learn from trolleyology0
Does the Patterned View Avoid the Ideal Worlds Objection?0
Psychological Egoism and Ought-Implies-Can: What Do They Entail?0
Ending Print Publication After December 2022 Issue0
From Contextualism to Contrastivism in Moral Theory0
Bain's Theory of Moral Judgment and the Development of Mill's Utilitarianism0
Does Abortion Harm the Fetus?0
Totalism, Animals, and the Repugnant Conclusion0
James E. Crimmins, Utilitarianism in the Early American Republic (New York: Routledge, 2022), pp. 280.0
John Peter DiIulio, Completely Free: The Moral and Political Vision of John Stuart Mill (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022), pp. xiii + 305.0
Ex-Ante Prioritarianism Violates Sequential Ex-Ante Pareto0
UTI volume 34 issue 2 Cover and Front matter0
Classic Hedonism Reconsidered0
Bentham’s Laws in Principem and his Command Theory: a Critique of Hart’s Criticisms0
M. A. Roberts, The Existence Puzzle: An Introduction to Population Axiology (New York: Oxford University Press, 2024), pp. 280.0
When a Free Act Costs a Motive: Clearing Consequentialism of Conflict0
Collective Reasons and Agent-Relativity0
Non-Conceptual Normative Pluralism and the Dualism of Practical Reason0
Guy Fletcher, Dear Prudence (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021), pp. 1–223.0
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
UTI volume 33 issue 4 Cover and Back matter0
Steve Clarke, Hazem Zohny, and Julian Savulescu (eds.), Rethinking Moral Status (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021), pp. xvii + 333.0
Mark Fabian, A Theory of Subjective Wellbeing (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022), pp. x + 305.0
Inder Marwah, Liberalism, Diversity and Domination: Kant, Mill, and the Government of Difference (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019), pp. x + 298.0
William MacAskill, Krister Bykvist and Toby Ord, Moral Uncertainty (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. viii + 226.0
Egyptians, Aliens, and Okies: Against the Sum of Averages0
J. S. Mill's Anti-Imperialist Defence of Empire0
The Sum of Averages: An Egyptology-Proof Average View0
Fit and Well-Being0
How Thresholds Matter: On the Bounds and Demands of Justice0
UTI volume 34 issue 3 Cover and Back matter0
UTI volume 34 issue 4 Cover and Front matter0
Is Norcross Right about Right?0
T. M. Scanlon, Why Does Inequality Matter? (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), pp. 192.0
For the Greater Individual and Social Good: Justifying Age-Differentiated Paternalism0
The Parent Trap: Why Choice-Dependent Moral Theories Fail to Deliver the Asymmetry0
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
Trade, Piecework, and the Liberty Principle0
The Counterfactual Argument Against Abortion0
Principle, Pragmatism, and Piecework in On Liberty0
Pattern-Based Reasons and Disaster0
Jonathan Pugh, Autonomy, Rationality, and Contemporary Bioethics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 287.0
Josh Milburn, Food, Justice, and Animals: Feeding the World Respectfully (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023), pp. 224.0
Bentham's Mugging0
Alastair Norcross, Morality by Degrees: Reasons without Demands (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. vii + 157.0
Michael Pelczar, Phenomenalism: A Metaphysics of Chance and Experience (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023), pp. xiii + 210.0
Robin Attfield, Applied Ethics: An Introduction (Cambridge, Polity Press, 2023), pp. vi + 218.0
Never Just Save the Few0
The Morality of Creating Lives Not Worth Living: On Boonin's Solution to the Non-Identity Problem0
Intuition and Kagan's Hierarchicalism0
Toni Rønnow-Rasmussen, The Value Gap (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022), pp. xv + 215.0
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
UTI volume 34 issue 1 Cover and Front matter0
UTI volume 33 issue 3 Cover and Back matter0
Don't Go Chasing Waterfalls: Against Hayward's “Utility Cascades”0
The Good and the Wrong of Hypocritical Blaming0
Well-being and the Problem of Unstable Desires0
Subjectivism and Degrees of Well-Being0
Doing Harm: A Reply to Klocksiem0
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
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
Harm, Context, Blame, and Significance: A Response to Eggleston, Sinnott-Armstrong, Mason, and Kagan0
Benatar and Beyond: Rethinking the Consequences of Asymmetry0
Limits to Aggregation and Uncertain Rescues0
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