In her column on July 18, Tina Dupuy reveals her belief in the social philosophy called utilitarianism (consequentialism). She wrote “laws for the greater good, while inconveniencing a couple of ...

Every person has both utilitarian (consequentialist) and Kantian (duty- or rule-based) moral intuitions, which are activated in different situations in different ways. The field of Moral Psychology ...

In a philosophy seminar many years ago I called utilitarian ethics ‘the moral view from nowhere’. Like so many smart-ass undergrads I was riffing from a work that I knew my philosophy peers would have ...

Really the crucial part of Greg Mankiw’s recent paper “Defending the One Percent” is his attack on what he rather loosely terms “utilitarianism.” In essence, Mankiw wants to say that redistributive ...

One philosophical theory that can be used to support preemptive and forced evacuation during natural disasters is utilitarianism, specifically the principle of the greatest good for the greatest ...

The concept of utilitarianism refers to the doctrine that actions are right if they are useful for the benefit of a majority. The doctrine is that an action is right in so far as it promotes happiness ...