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This is an incomplete list of advocates of utilitarianism and/or consequentialism.
Ancient
18th Century
- Cesare Beccaria[1]
- Jeremy Bentham[2]
- Claude Adrien Helvétius
- Baron d'Holbach
- James Mill
- William Paley
19th Century
- John Austin[3]
- Francis Ysidro Edgeworth[4]
- William Godwin[5]
- Harriet Taylor Mill
- John Stuart Mill[6]
- David Ricardo
- Herbert Spencer
- James Fitzjames Stephen
- William Thompson
20th Century
- Alexander Bain
- Richard Brandt[7]
- Jonathan Glover
- Esperanza Guisán[8]
- R. M. Hare[9]
- John Harsanyi[10]
- Brad Hooker[11]
- Shelly Kagan
- Richard Layard[12]
- James MacKaye[13]
- Ludwig von Mises
- Jan Narveson[14]
- Alastair Norcross[15]
- David Pearce[16]
- Karl Popper
- Bertrand Russell[17]
- James Rachels
- Henry Sidgwick[18]
- Peter Singer[19]
- J. J. C. Smart[20]
- Timothy Sprigge[21]
- L. W. Sumner[22]
- Robert Wright[23]
21st Century
- Jacob M. Appel
- Jonathan Baron[24]
- Lawrence Krauss[25]
- Ludvig Lindström
- Jason Gaverick Matheny
- Yew-Kwang Ng[26]
- Toby Ord
- Steven Pinker[27]
- Torbjörn Tännsjö[28]
- Peter Singer
References
- ↑ '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.
- ↑ The Province of Jurisprudence Determined, London, 1832.
- ↑ Mathematical Psychics, London: Kegan Paul, 1881; New and Old Methods of Ethics, Oxford and London: James Parker, 1877.
- ↑ An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Political Justice. 1st edition, Lo[Dan GoldstiGeorge Grote
- ↑ Utilitarianism, London, 1863.
- ↑ A Theory of the Good and the Right, Amherst: Prometheus, 1998.
- ↑ 'Utilitarismo', in Victoria Camps, Osvaldo Guariglia and Fernando Salmerón (eds.), Concepciones de la ética, Madrid: Trotta: 1992, pp. 269-295.
- ↑ '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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Morality and Utility, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1967.
- ↑ '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 [...]").
- ↑ 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.").
- ↑ The Methods of Ethics, London: Macmillan, 1907, 7th edition.
- ↑ '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.
- ↑ 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).").
- ↑ Supporting the case against empathy--Jonathan Baron interviewed by Edwin Rutsch, YouTube, 6:01.
- ↑ Member of Facebook Utilitarians group.
- ↑ 'An Argument for Utilitarianism', Canadian Journal of Philosophy, vol. 11, no. 2 (1981), pp. 229-239 (with Peter Singer).
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Bv0Resywg48
- ↑ Hedonistic Utilitarianism, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1998.