The Cambridge Companion to Utilitarianism

Ben Eggleston is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kansas. He is co-editor (with Dale E. Miller and David Weinstein) of John Stuart Mill and the Art of Life (2011). Dale E. Miller is Professor of Philosophy at Old Dominion University. He is author of J. S. Mill: Moral, Social and Political Thought (2010), and co-editor of Morality, Rules, and Consequences (with Brad Hooker and Elinor Mason, 2000) and John Stuart Mill and the Art of Life (with Ben Eggleston and David Weinstein, 2011).

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• Introduction Ben Eggleston and Dale E. Miller; 1. Utilitarianism before Bentham Colin Heydt; 2. Bentham and utilitarianism in the early nineteenth century James E. Crimmins; 3. Mill and utilitarianism in the mid nineteenth century Henry R. West; 4. Sidgwick and utilitarianism in the late nineteenth century Roger Crisp; 5. Utilitarianism in the twentieth century Krister Bykvist; 6. Act utilitarianism Ben Eggleston; 7. Rule utilitarianism Dale E. Miller; 8. Global utilitarianism Julia Driver; 9. Objectivism, subjectivism, and prospectivism Elinor Mason; 10. Subjective theories of well-being Chris Heathwood; 11. Objective theories of well-being Ben Bradley; 12. Kantian ethics and utilitarianism Jens Timmermann; 13. What virtue ethics can learn from utilitarianism Daniel C. Russell; 14. Utilitarianism and fairness Brad Hooker; 15. Utilitarianism and the ethics of war William H. Shaw; 16. Utilitarianism and our obligations to future people Tim Mulgan.