Preface
1: Origins
2: Justification
3: What should we maximize?
4: Objections
5: Rules
6: Utilitarianism in action
References
Further reading
Index
Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek is a Polish utilitarian philosopher,
working as Assistant Professor at the Institute of Philosophy at
the University of Lodz. She is the author of several articles in
Polish and English on Henry Sidgwick, utilitarianism, bioethics,
and philosophy for children, and, with Peter Singer, has
co-authored The Point of View of the Universe: Sidgwick and
Contemporary Ethics (OUP, 2014). She is currently working on a book
on happiness.
Peter Singer is Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the
University Center for Human Values at Princeton University, a
position that he now combines with the position of Laureate
Professor at the University of Melbourne. An Australian, in 2012 he
was made a Companion to the Order of Australia, his country's
highest civilian honour. His books include Animal Liberation (1975;
Bodley Head, 2015) Practical Ethics (1979; CUP, 2011), The Life You
Can Save (Picador,
2010), and The Most Good You Can Do (Yale University Press, 2015).
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