This post isn’t about the propriety of the death penalty so much as it is about the dangers and profound crassness of utilitarian philosophy. Peter Singer has stated that if he was convinced of a ...

Peter Singer’s odious utilitarianism. The philosopher has repeatedly claimed that severely disabled people should be killed. Now he suggests that it might be OK to rape those that have been allowed to ...

In 1809, Jeremy Bentham, the founder of utilitarianism, set to work on The Book of Fallacies, the goal of which was to expose the flaws in arguments used to block political reform. Some of those ...

in ger may be our best known ethicist. A shy, bespectacled Australian who teaches at Princeton, he is regularly interviewed on The Colbert Show (watch him here.) Popular interest usually does not ...