Alexander Pruss's Blog

It is wrong to torture a stranger for 99 minutes in order to avoid 100 minutes of equal torture to oneself.

Suppose Alice and Bob are perfect utilitarians or perfect amoral egoists in any combination. They are about to play a game where they raise ...

Here’s an amusing little fact. You can’t be both an open theist and an act utilitarian. For according to the act utilitarian, to fail to max...

Rule utilitarianism holds that one should act according to those rules, or those usable rules, that if adopted universally would produce...