Negative Utilitarianism Archives - Center for Reducing Suffering Our mission is to reduce severe suffering, taking all sentient beings into account Tue, 17 Sep 2024 06:16:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://centerforreducingsuffering.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/cfrs-logo-square-150x150.png Negative Utilitarianism Archives - Center for Reducing Suffering 32 32 194688957 Reply to Gustafsson’s “Against Negative Utilitarianism” https://centerforreducingsuffering.org/reply-to-gustafsson/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=reply-to-gustafsson Tue, 07 Jun 2022 17:57:22 +0000 https://centerforreducingsuffering.org/?p=1881 This post is a reply to Johan Gustafsson’s draft paper “Against Negative Utilitarianism”. Gustafsson acknowledges that for many common objections raised against negative utilitarianism (NU), there are corresponding objections that can be raised against classical utilitarianism (CU) (see e.g. Knutsson, 2021a). Hence, as he writes, “these objections have little force when we assess the relative […]

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]]> 1881 Point-by-point critique of Ord’s “Why I’m Not a Negative Utilitarian” https://centerforreducingsuffering.org/point-by-point-critique-of-why-im-not-a-negative-utilitarian/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=point-by-point-critique-of-why-im-not-a-negative-utilitarian Mon, 30 May 2022 19:46:11 +0000 https://centerforreducingsuffering.org/?p=1829 The following is a reply to Toby Ord’s “Why I’m Not a Negative Utilitarian” (2013). Ord’s essay seems to have been quite influential, and is often cited as an essay that makes strong points against negative utilitarianism. While a number of critical replies have already been written, I still think there are many problematic things […]

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