- On Teleology, Purpose, and the Objects of Morality -- a utilitarian-like account of what states of affairs constitute good moral ends, yet not as a consequentialist normative theory against deontological ethics, but rather as meta-ethical "moral ontology", or at least the moral analogue of ontology https://www.geekofalltrades.org/codex/teleology 21 comments philosophy
- Bentham’s Mugging: A dialogue on how to exploit utilitarians https://doi.org/10.1017/S0953820822000218 32 comments philosophy
- Probabilistic Reasons to Reject Utilitarianism https://parrhesia.substack.com/p/probabilist-reasons-to-reject-utilitarianism?r=i450q&s=w 4 comments philosophy
- Leaders’ pandemic policies engendered varying levels of trust. People tended to trust utilitarian leaders who sought to save the most lives around the globe, rather than favoring their own citizens. The results were consistent across all countries studied. https://news.yale.edu/2021/07/01/leaders-pandemic-policies-engendered-varying-levels-trust 4 comments science
- A Quick Summary of Mill’s Utilitarianism and Its Importance https://alexanderpasch.com/2021/05/17/notes-on-utilitarianism-by-john-stuart-mill/ 77 comments philosophy
- Utilitarianism - deciding the fate of the galaxy in Mass Effect 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?amp%3Bfeature=share&v=dC3pNsFOA9Q 5 comments philosophy
- Veganism, Ownership, and Abolitionism: How the ownership of animals, not just their mistreatment, is incompatible with utilitarian ethics https://epochemagazine.org/the-stars-were-not-made-for-us-an-argument-for-a-new-human-humility-77a2197df2c9 89 comments philosophy
- IBM's developer resources site: Example of beautiful clean, non distracting, utilitarian design https://www.reddit.com/r/web_design/comments/ac4co3/ibms_developer_resources_site_example_of/ 4 comments web_design
- People who are using money from a joint bank account are less likely to make purchases for pleasure because they feel the need to justify the expense to their partners. Instead, couples who pool their finances favor utilitarian purchases that are easier to justify, finds a new study. https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-12/sfcp-ass122018.php 37 comments science
- Why Peter Singer's 'Utilitarian' Argument for Vegetarianism Doesn't Add Up http://www.philosophersbeard.org/2014/07/does-utilitarian-argument-for.html 687 comments philosophy
- The "felicific calculus" is an algorithm formulated by utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832) for calculating the degree or amount of pleasure that a specific action is likely to cause. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/felicific_calculus 17 comments philosophy
- Podcast: A discussion with philosopher Roger Crisp on Bentham, Mill, Hedonism, States of consciousness, and rule vs act utilitarianism. https://www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/utilitarianism 3 comments philosophy
- There's a morality test that evaluates utilitarianism better than the Trolley Problem https://qz.com/1196243/test-how-moral-or-immoral-you-are-with-this-utilitarian-philosophy-quiz/ 251 comments philosophy
- Men’s moral choices can make them more or less sexy. In a new study incorporating the “Trolley Problem” (would you sacrifice one life to save five), women perceived a deontological man as more desirable for long-term mating, and less prone to infidelity, relative to a utilitarian man. http://www.psypost.org/2018/02/mens-moral-choices-can-make-less-sexy-study-finds-50688 87 comments science
- A Utilitarian Justification of Compulsory Stem Cell Donation - Analogy to a Universal Health Care System https://www.lifetypestuff.com/blog/2017/12/22/fighting-apathy-in-health-care-policy 23 comments philosophy
- Utilitarianism’s Missing Dimensions http://quillette.com/2018/01/03/utilitarianisms-missing-dimensions/ 39 comments philosophy
- Average Moral Intuitions are Undergoing a Significant Change: More Acceptance of Utilitarian Sacrifices https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/s0010027717302561 428 comments philosophy
- Using a foreign language takes emotion out of decision-making and allows people to take the more utilitarian action, new study shows http://www.unipaper.co.uk/article/communicating-in-a-foreign-language-takes-emotion-out-of-decision-making 26 comments science
- Ethics: Problems for the theory of Utilitarianism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGDk23Q0S9E 155 comments philosophy
- Why Does Justice have Good Consequences - an exploration into justice, utilitarianism, deontology, and virtue ethics http://praxeology.net/whyjust.htm 4 comments philosophy
- In Refutation of Negative Average Preference Utilitarianism https://www.reddit.com/r/philosophy/comments/4i3x63/in_refutation_of_negative_average_preference/ 18 comments philosophy
- Toby Ord, "Why I'm not a negative utilitarian" http://www.amirrorclear.net/academic/ideas/negative-utilitarianism/ 21 comments philosophy
- "Is a biosphere worth living?" On speciesism, utilitarian ethics and if life is worth anything at all [note: my own blog post] http://blog.devicerandom.org/2015/09/28/is-a-biosphere-worth-living/ 493 comments philosophy
- The world's most famous utilitarian on whether all carnivorous animals should be killed http://www.vox.com/2015/6/18/8802755/peter-singer 49 comments philosophy
- Where are the pro-life utilitarians? http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2015/04/where_are_the_p.html 22 comments philosophy
- Peter Singer gives a simple and elegant answer to the question "What is the significance of Utilitarianism?" http://www.quora.com/what-is-the-significance-of-utilitarianism 284 comments philosophy
- Strong AI, utilitarianism and our limited minds https://sergiograziosi.wordpress.com/2015/02/08/strong-ai-utilitarianism-and-our-limited-minds/ 92 comments philosophy
- Cornell University: Utilitarianism Part 1 https://www.khanacademy.org/partner-content/wi-phi/value-theory-1/v/utilitarianism-part-1 3 comments philosophy
- Utilitarianism: hedonistic, act, classical http://measuringshadowsblog.blogspot.com/2012/07/utilitarianism-part-3-classical-act-one.html 4 comments philosophy
- Tyler Cowan and Peter Singer on Utilitarianism Giving, and how we can most improve the world. http://www.jefftk.com/news/2012-04-06.html 9 comments philosophy
- The trials of utilitarianism, x-post from comics http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2569 156 comments philosophy
- RM Hare - 'Could Kant have been a utilitarian?' http://deontology.com/ 30 comments philosophy
- Utilitarianism may have a psychopathic component, reports a Cornell study http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/nov11/utilitarianpizarro.html 17 comments science
- Just posting a paper I wrote this year for my freshman year philosophy class in college concerning utilitarianism, feel free to criticize, just something I thought might be interesting to some. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zihg8hw6mz3pcykwwi3xwzzmcolazpnpqqgek1tk0ne/edit?hl=en_us&authkey=ckxj8pyl 8 comments philosophy
- Utilitarian Love Poem. http://www.wordarc.com/alishahnovin/2008/10/29/utilitarian_love_poem 46 comments philosophy
- Utilitarian CSS Reset - Any thoughts on this article? http://charleshudson.com/markup-style/utilitarian-css/ 4 comments web_design
- [layman question] Hey philosopher kings: Can someone please set me straight on Hedonism / Utilitarianism / Sam Harris? http://www.amazon.com/Moral-Landscape-Science-Determine-Values/dp/1439171211?tag=dudugo-20 54 comments philosophy
- Sam Harris isn't even that original -- even if you disagree with Popper's version of negative utilitarianism, the similarities are uncanny http://www.utilitarianism.com/karl-popper.html 19 comments philosophy
- Indirect Utilitarianism http://www.philosophyetc.net/2005/06/indirect-utilitarianism.html 4 comments philosophy
- Question concerning utilitarianism. http://www.frigginrandom.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/gang-rape.jpg 23 comments philosophy
