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This is an incomplete list of advocates of utilitarianism.
- John Austin[1]
- Jeremy Bentham[2]
- Richard Brandt[3]
- David O. Brink[4]
- Roger Crisp
- Charles Darwin[5]
- Francis Ysidro Edgeworth[6]
- Epicurus
- Martín Diego Farrell[7]
- Fred Feldman[8]
- Jonathan Glover
- William Godwin[9]
- Dan Goldstick
- George Grote
- Esperanza Guisán[10]
- Élie Halévy
- Robin Hanson[11]
- R. M. Hare[12]
- John Harsanyi[13]
- Claude Adrien Helvétius
- Brad Hooker[14]
- David Hume
- Richard Layard[15]
- Lucretius
- James MacKaye[16]
- Harriet Taylor Mill
- James Mill
- John Stuart Mill[17]
- Ludwig von Mises
- Jan Narveson[18]
- Yew-Kwang Ng[19]
- Alastair Norcross[20]
- Adam Smith
- William Paley
- David Pearce[21]
- Philip Pettit[22]
- Karl Popper
- James Rachels
- Stuart Rachels
- David Ricardo
- Bertrand Russell[23]
- Richard D. Ryder[24]
- William Shaw[25]
- Henry Sidgwick[26]
- R. I. Sikora[27]
- Peter Singer[28]
- J. J. C. Smart[29]
- Herbert Spencer
- Timothy Sprigge[30]
- L. W. Sumner[31]
- Torbjörn Tännsjö[32]
- William Thompson
- [Issak Morthrum 'Issakistic Utility and quantization of happiness'[(Cork)]]
- Robert Wright[33]
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References
- ^ The Province of Jurisprudence Determined, London, 1832.
- ^ '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.
- ^ A Theory of the Good and the Right, Amherst: Prometheus, 1998.
- ^ 'Utilitarian Morality and the Personal Point of View', Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 83, pp. 417-38.
- ^ Howard E. Gruber, Darwin on Man: A Psychological Study of Scientific Creativity, Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1981, p. 64.
- ^ Mathematical Psychics, London: Kegan Paul, 1881; New and Old Methods of Ethics, Oxford and London: James Parker, 1877.
- ^ Utilitarismo: ética y política, Buenos Aires: Abeledo-Perrot, 1983.
- ^ Hedonism, Utilitarianism, and Desert: Essays in Moral Philosophy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997
- ^ An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Political Justice. 1st edition, London, 1793.
- ^ 'Utilitarismo', in Victoria Camps, Osvaldo Guariglia and Fernando Salmerón (eds.), Concepciones de la ética, Madrid: Trotta: 1992, pp. 269-295.
- ^ Joined Orkut 'Utilitarians' group.
- ^ '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.
- ^ Utilitarianism, London, 1863.
- ^ Morality and Utility, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1967.
- ^ 'An Argument for Utilitarianism', Canadian Journal of Philosophy, vol. 11, no. 2 (1981), pp. 229-239 (with Peter Singer).
- ^ '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 [...]").
- ^ 'Consequentialism', in Peter Singer (ed.), A Companion to Ethics, Oxford: Blackwell, 1991.
- ^ 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.").
- ^ Painism: A Modern Morality, London: Centaur Press, 2001.
- ^ Contemporary Ethics: Taking Account of Utilitarianism, Oxford: Blackwell, 1999.
- ^ The Methods of Ethics, London: Macmillan, 1907, 7th edition.
- ^ 'Is it Wrong to Prevent the Existence of Future Generations?', in R. I. Sikora and Brian Barry, Obligations to Future Generations, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1978, p. 113 ("Because I am a kind of utilitarian I consider the issues within a utilitarian framework").
- ^ '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 Pres, 1973.
- ^ The Rational Foundations of Ethics, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1988.
- ^ Welfare, Happiness, and Ethics, New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
- ^ Hedonistic Utilitarianism, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1998.
- ^ The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology, Vintage, 1995.
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