Utilitarianism and Heuristics

Utilitarianism and Personal Identity

Utilitarianism, Conscience and Animals

Utilitarianism and prioritarianism II

Acknowledgements I am extremely grateful to John Broome, Wlodek Rabinowicz, Bertil Tungodden and an anonymous referee for exceptionally detailed comments. I have also benefited from comments by audiences at Oxford and Konstanz. Support for this project was provided by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, and also by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the Federal Ministry of Education a...

Utilitarianism and discrimination

Since Becker (3), a common argument against asymmetric norms that promote minority rights over those of the majority is that such policies reduce total welfare. While this may be the case, we show that there are simple environments where aggregate sum of individual utilities is actually maximized under asymmetric norms that favor minorities. We thus maintain that without information regarding i...

Utilitarianism and Vegetarianism, Again

Peter Singer, in his essay "Utilitarianism and Vegetarianism" (Philosoohv and Public Affairs, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 325-37),1 has gone some distance toward clarifying his view of the utilitarian case for the ob­ ligation to be vegetarian. The fact that this clearer statement of his position was prompted, at least in part, by an essay of mine ("Utilitarianism, Vegetarianism, and Animal Rights," Phi...