Alexander Pruss's Blog

Desire-satisfaction utilitarianism (DSU) holds that the right thing to do is what maximizes everyone’s total desire satisfaction. This requ...

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

My main objection to natural law ethics has for a long time been that it looks egoistic because it is eudaimonistic. One version of that wor...

One of the least popular ethical theories is present moment ethical egoism (pmee): you ought do what produces the state that is best for you...

Forty years ago you and your brother foughts about who would get to play with the new train. You remember the fight, but not the ...