"For the last thirty years or so, there has been a search underway for a theory that can accommodate our intuitions in…"

"Total and average utilitarianism are very different theories, and where they differ most is over extinction. If globa…"

"Parfit (1984) rejected Totalism and Averagism...[and] failed to find any alternative axiology that he himself conside…"

"One common, but mistaken, response to the impossibility theorems is to turn claim that these theorems are problematic…"

"Classical Utilitarians...would claim, as Sidgwick did, that the destruction of mankind would be by far the greatest o…"

"[The Repugnant Conclusion:] For any possible population of at least ten billion people, all with a very high quality …"

"Is it total or average happiness that we seek to make a maximum?...we foresee as possible that an increase in [popula…"

"Another type of ultimate disagreement between utilitarians, whether hedonistic or ideal, can arise over whether we sh…"

"In the higher degrees of Scottish Freemasonry, there are two mottos whose meaning is related to some of the considera…"

"In absolute clarity, one sees as little as in absolute darkness. Pure light and pure darkness are two voids, they are…"