Wikipedia's list of utilitarians

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Wikipedia's list of utilitarians

Postby Arepo on 2010-12-03T18:02:00

Was looking at it today, and it occurs to me that a lot of the entries on it are unsourced - thought I'd put in a plea for anyone reading, esp any of the professional philosophers to add references to any of the non-obvious ones they can.

Eg Mary Wollstonecraft - I'd like to believe she was, but the Wikipedia page on her gives no more evidence than the fact that she had a fling with William Godwin. Robin Hanson's an odd choice for inclusion, too - I think he's specifically denied being a util, though I can't remember where I saw that, so might have hallucinated it.
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