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Utilitarianism.net Updates
Translations, four new guest essays, and an official print edition
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Richard Y Chappell
Slater's Objections to Satisficing
Does Satisficing Satisfy?
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Kolber's Punishment for the Greater Good
A summary from the author
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Types of Replaceability
Not all equally objectionable
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Beneficentric Virtue Ethics
On the good intentions behind utilitarianism and effective altruism
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Naïve Instrumentalism vs Principled Proceduralism
Not your standard consequentialism-deontology distinction
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Beneficence is not exclusively utilitarian
At least, it shouldn't be
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McMahan's Time-Relative Account of Interests
A new guest essay published at utilitarianism.net
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Revisiting "Philosophical" Utilitarianism
Well-being is what matters, but needn't exhaust the moral facts
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Utilitarianism.net Audio
Podcast and on-page narrations now available
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Bleeding-Heart Consequentialism
My kind of moral theory
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Life isn't Sacred
Consequentialists value life and agential interventions in the ordinary kind of way
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