One defense of allowing more low-skilled versus high-skilled immigrants is that from a utilitarian standpoint we should value the gains to the low-skilled workers more because they are poorer and an ...

Utilitarianism is one of several ethical theories addressing the question of how to assess the “goodness” of any state of affairs. In the history of ideas, the most distinguished proponents and ...

Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 4, No. 1 (Feb., 1985), pp. 23-30 (8 pages) The growing awareness that corporate and public policy forming processes are intensively utilitarian has provoked a variety ...

Rutgers researchers propose approaching the effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions using ethical theory of utilitarianism. An approach to reducing greenhouse gas emissions that is informed by the ...

Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Vol. 18, No. 4, Special Issue: BSET-2014 (August 2015), pp. 717-729 (13 pages) I argue that utilitarianism cannot accommodate a basic sort of moral judgment that ...

Greene et al. reported that brain areas typically associated with affect are activated when subjects make moral judgements about ‘personal’ scenarios, where one alternative requires directly causing ...