Hi, it's me, AOL's resident shopping expert who really, really hates purses. If you, like me, think of purses and bags as merely an utilitarian carryall used haul items from one location to another, ...

One defense of allowing more low-skilled versus high-skilled immigrants is that from a utilitarian standpoint we should value the gains to the low-skilled workers more because they are poorer and an ...

“Moral” psychology has traditionally been studied by subjecting individuals to moral dilemmas, that is, hypothetical choices regarding typically dangerous scenarios, but it has rarely been validated ...

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 ...

John Stuart Mill’s (1806-1873) father, James Mill, was an outspoken advocate of utilitarianism and a friend of Jeremy Bentham, its founder. John Mill was born into a household steeped in utilitarian ...