Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Vol. 18, No. 4, Special Issue: BSET-2014 (August 2015), pp. 717-729 (13 pages) I argue that utilitarianism cannot accommodate a basic sort of moral judgment that ...

These results question the widely-used methods by which lay moral judgments are evaluated, as these approaches lead to the counterintuitive conclusion that those individuals who are least prone to ...

Moral dilemmas can be portrayed as decisions between two main conflicting moral principles: utilitarian and deontological. Utilitarian philosophies hold that an action is morally acceptable if it ...

The consequences of our actions are important. They matter. But if the utilitarian is right, then consequences are all that matters. Is this correct? The main principle of utilitarian moral theory, ...

Think of all the billions of people there are in the world. Scads of innocent people die all the time. Why not spread happiness and reduce the death toll at the same time? Hard cheese on the appointed ...

The last time my wife and I were in London together, we had dinner at the Garrick Club with an eminent political philosopher and his wife. We’d walked out on some horrible West End play after the ...