This is in response to Roger Kimball’s disquisition on selfishness and altruism. It seems entirely right to me neither to deny selfishness its place in human nature nor to exaggerate it (and likewise ...

The last time my wife and I were in London together, we had dinner at the Garrick Club with an eminent political philosopher and his wife. We’d walked out on some horrible West End play after the ...

Art hanging on a wall or standing in a space designed to display it advantageously is great, and most of us appreciate seeing these results of someone’s artistic expression. The same goes with the ...

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 ...

How do you make a choice that will benefit the greatest number of people when there are conflicting preferences involved? How does the brain make sense of differing perspectives and organize them to ...

We report a study in which participants responded to a battery of personality assessments and a set of dilemmas that pit utilitarian and non-utilitarian options against each other. Participants who ...