List of Utilitarians Information
This is an incomplete list of advocates of utilitarianism.
- John Austin[1]
- Jacob M. Appel[2]
- Alexander Bain
- Cesare Beccaria[3]
- Jeremy Bentham[4]
- Richard Brandt[5]
- Roger Crisp
- Charles Darwin[6]
- Francis Ysidro Edgeworth[7]
- Epicurus
- Martín Diego Farrell[8]
- Fred Feldman[9]
- Jonathan Glover
- William Godwin[10]
- Dan Goldstick
- George Grote
- Esperanza Guisán[11]
- Élie Halévy
- Robin Hanson[12]
- R. M. Hare[13]
- John Harsanyi[14]
- Claude Adrien Helvétius
- Sharon Hewitt[15]
- Baron d'Holbach
- Brad Hooker[16]
- David Hume
- Shelly Kagan
- Zell Kravinsky
- Richard Layard[17]
- Ludvig Lindström
- Lucretius
- James MacKaye[18]
- Jason Gaverick Matheny
- Harriet Taylor Mill
- James Mill
- John Stuart Mill[19]
- Jan Narveson[20]
- Yew-Kwang Ng[21]
- Alastair Norcross[22]
- Michel Onfray
- Toby Ord
- William Paley
- Benjamin Bloor
- David Pearce[23]
- Mario A. Peña Jr.
- Philip Pettit[24]
- Karl Popper
- James Rachels
- Stuart Rachels
- David Ricardo
- Bertrand Russell[25]
- Richard D. Ryder[26]
- William Shaw[27]
- Henry Sidgwick[28]
- R. I. Sikora[29]
- Peter Singer[30]
- J. J. C. Smart[31]
- Biagio Collura
- Herbert Spencer
- Timothy Sprigge[32]
- James Fitzjames Stephen
- L. W. Sumner[33]
- Torbjörn Tännsjö[34]
- William Thompson
- Robert Wright[35]
- Mary Wollstonecraft
- Ludwig von Mises
- Kristiin A. Jeican
- Davinder Singh Cheema
- Marcus Chang
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References
- ^ The Province of Jurisprudence Determined, London, 1832.
- ^ Appel, JM Mandatory Genetic Testing Isn't Eugenics, It's Smart Science
- ^ 'Dei delitti e delle pene' (Of Crime and Punishment), Milan, 1764.
- ^ 'Essay on Utilitarianism, Long Version', in Amnon Goldworth (ed.), Deontology; together with A table of the springs of action; and the Article on Utilitarianism, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983.
- ^ A Theory of the Good and the Right, Amherst: Prometheus, 1998.
- ^ Howard E. Gruber, Darwin on Man: A Psychological Study of Scientific Creativity, Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1981, p. 64.
- ^ Mathematical Psychics, London: Kegan Paul, 1881; New and Old Methods of Ethics, Oxford and London: James Parker, 1877.
- ^ Utilitarismo: ética y política, Buenos Aires: Abeledo-Perrot, 1983.
- ^ Hedonism, Utilitarianism, and Desert: Essays in Moral Philosophy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997
- ^ An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Political Justice. 1st edition, London, 1793.
- ^ 'Utilitarismo', in Victoria Camps, Osvaldo Guariglia and Fernando Salmerón (eds.), Concepciones de la ética, Madrid: Trotta: 1992, pp. 269-295.
- ^ Joined Orkut 'Utilitarians' group.
- ^ 'Ethical Theory and Utilitarianism', in H. D. Lewis, Contemporary British Philosophy, Vol. 4, London: Allen and Unwin.
- ^ 'Morality and the Theory of Rational Behavior', Social Research, Vol. 44, No. 4, pp. 623-56.
- ^ "Normative Qualia and a Robust Moral Realism", PhD Dissertation, New York University, 2008 ("I defend [...] hedonistic utilitarian[ism] [...] against arguments that it conflicts with our moral intuitions, arguing that our intuitions are more consistent with the practice of hedonistic utilitarianism than is usually recognized.").
- ^ Ideal Code, Real World, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.
- ^ Happiness: Lessons from a New Science, London: Penguin, 2005, pp. 4, 112 ("[My] philosophy is that of the eighteenth century Enlightenment, as articulated by Jeremy Bentham. [...] I believe Bentham's idea was right and that we should fearlessly adopt it and apply it to our lives.").
- ^ The Economy of Happiness, Boston, 1906.
- ^ Utilitarianism, London, 1863.
- ^ Morality and Utility, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1967.
- ^ 'An Argument for Utilitarianism', Canadian Journal of Philosophy, vol. 11, no. 2 (1981), pp. 229-239 (with Peter Singer).
- ^ 'Reasons without Demands: Rethinking Rightness', in James Dreier (ed.), Contemporary Debates in Moral Theory, Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2006, p. 39 ("Many utilitarians (myself included) believe [...]").
- ^ The Hedonistic Imperative, §2.19 ("The utilitarian ethic championed here [...]").
- ^ 'Consequentialism', in Peter Singer (ed.), A Companion to Ethics, Oxford: Blackwell, 1991.
- ^ The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell, London: Routledge, 2000 [London: Allen and Unwin, 1969, Vol. 1], p. 39 ("It appeared to me obvious that the happiness of mankind should be the aim of all action, and I discovered to my surprise that there were those who thought otherwise. Belief in happiness, I found, was called Utilitarianism, and was merely one among a number of ethical theories. I adhered to it after this discovery.").
- ^ Painism: A Modern Morality, London: Centaur Press, 2001.
- ^ Contemporary Ethics: Taking Account of Utilitarianism, Oxford: Blackwell, 1999.
- ^ The Methods of Ethics, London: Macmillan, 1907, 7th edition.
- ^ 'Is it Wrong to Prevent the Existence of Future Generations?', in R. I. Sikora and Brian Barry, Obligations to Future Generations, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1978, p. 113 ("Because I am a kind of utilitarian I consider the issues within a utilitarian framework").
- ^ 'The Singer Solution to World Poverty', The New York Times Magazine, September 5, 1999, pp. 60-63 ("for a utilitarian philosopher like myself [...]").
- ^ 'An Outline of a System of Utilitarian Ethics', in J. J. C. Smart and B. Williams, Utilitarianism: For and Against, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1973.
- ^ The Rational Foundations of Ethics, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1988.
- ^ Welfare, Happiness, and Ethics, New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
- ^ Hedonistic Utilitarianism, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1998.
- ^ The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology, Vintage, 1995, p. 341 ("although utilitarianism was Darwin's and Mill's solution to the moral challenge of modern science, it isn't everyone's. Nor is this chapter intended to make it everyone's (although, I admit, it's mine).").
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