Forthcoming in the Canadian Journal of Philosophy In the fourteenth paragraph of the fifth chapter of Utilitarianism, J. S. Mill writes that ‘We do not call anything wrong, unless we mean to imply that a person ought to be punished in some way or other for doing it; if not by law, by the opinion of his fellow-creatures; if not by opinion, by the reproaches of his own conscience.’ I criticize the attempts of three commentators who have recently presented act-utilitarian readings of Mill – Roger Crisp, David Brink, and Piers Norris Turner – to accommodate this passage. Published version (on the Canadian Journal of Philosophy website) |
 Dr. Dale E. Miller Professor of Philosophy and Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies College of Arts and Letters Old Dominion University Norfolk VA 23529-0083 757-683-3866 demiller@odu.edu he/him |
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