utilitarianism

Michael Cook | 16 March 2020 | CAREFUL! |  

tags: assisted suicide, bioethics, coronavirus, medical ethics, utilitarianism

Let’s talk about pain

Michael Cook | 05 November 2018 | FEATURES |  

tags: Christianity, pain, secularization, suffering, utilitarianism

Utilitarianism goes on a charm offensive

Michael Cook | 29 January 2018 | FEATURES |  

tags: effective altruism, impartial beneficence, Julian Savulescu, Peter Singer, utilitarianism

The Economist’s free market ideology fails vulnerable women

Michael Cook | 24 May 2017 | FEATURES |  

tags: cannibalism, surrogacy, surrogate motherhood, the economist, utilitarianism

Peter Singer’s cold logic of doing good through philanthropy

Clive Hamilton | 25 July 2016 | FEATURES |  

tags: effective altruism, Peter Singer, utilitarianism

A liberal critic savages the famous philosopher's ideas for changing the world

Is transhumanism really the world’s most dangerous idea?

Michael Cook | 20 July 2016 | FEATURES |  

tags: immortality, Julian Savulescu, Peter Singer, Singularity, transhumanism, utilitarianism

Step by step, our lives are being absorbed by technology.

The wrong lesson from Hiroshima

Michael Cook | 13 May 2016 | FEATURES |  

tags: atomic bomb, Elizabeth Anscombe, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, utilitarianism

It's not weakness to regard dropping atom bombs on two Japanese cities as immoral

Rotten to the core? America’s new curriculum project

Peter Wood | 13 April 2016 | FEATURES |  

tags: Common Core, education reform, utilitarianism

A seasoned educationist explains why the Common Core should be abandoned.

The fatal flaws of the bioethics industry

David S. Oderberg | 18 December 2015 | FEATURES |  

tags: bioethics, natural law, utilitarianism

A philosopher criticises its superficiality and sophistry.

The fragile case for new brittle bone treatment

Philippa Taylor | 22 October 2015 | FEATURES |  

tags: abortion, bioethics, utilitarianism

Human beings should never be means to an end.

Will more auto safety investigators save more lives?

Karl D. Stephan | 11 June 2015 | FEATURES |  

tags: safety, utilitarianism

Perhaps not, but the public will feel safer, which is what they value.

Calculating charity

Michael Cook | 02 June 2015 | FEATURES |  

tags: Auschwitz, cooperation in evil, effective altruism, moral complicity, Peter Singer, philanthropy, utilitarianism

Peter Singer's new book on philanthropy reveals a dark side to utilitarianism

Mr Spock, the comic utilitarian

Michael Cook | 06 March 2015 | FEATURES |  

tags: Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, Peter Singer, Star Trek, utilitarianism

Why is there something faintly ridiculous in the logic of thinkers like Bentham, Mill and Peter Singer?

The terrifying utilitarianism behind Guantanamo torture

Peter Finn | 28 January 2015 | FEATURES |  

tags: Guantanamo Bay, utilitarianism

After a six-year legal battle, a detainee has given his side of the story of his arrest, rendition and interrogation. It's horrific.

Where are the true utilitarians who have not bent the knee to Baal?

Michael Cook | 24 November 2014 | FEATURES |  

tags: bioethics, Julian Savulescu, Peter Singer, utilitarianism

An Oxford philosopher wants a more positive image for an austere philosophy.

Page 1 of 3 :  1 2 3 >