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OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 25/04/17, SPi Utilitarianism: A Very Short Introduction OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 25/04/17, SPi VERY SHORT INTRODUCTIONS are for anyone wanting a stimulating and accessible way into a new subject. They are written by experts, and have been translated into more than 45 different languages. The series began in 1995, and now covers a wide variety of topics in every discipline. The VSI library now contains over 500 volumes—a Very Short Introduction to everything from Psychology and Philosophy of Science to American History and Relativity—and continues to grow in every subject area. Very Short Introductions available now: ACCOUNTING Christopher Nobes ANAESTHESIA Aidan O’Donnell ADOLESCENCE Peter K. Smith ANARCHISM Colin Ward ADVERTISING Winston Fletcher ANCIENT ASSYRIA Karen Radner AFRICAN AMERICAN RELIGION ANCIENT EGYPT Ian Shaw Eddie S. 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Amyes CIRCADIAN RHYTHMS BANKING John Goddard and Russell Foster and Leon Kreitzman John O. S. Wilson CITIZENSHIP Richard Bellamy BARTHES Jonathan Culler CIVIL ENGINEERING THE BEATS David Sterritt David Muir Wood BEAUTY Roger Scruton CLASSICAL LITERATURE William Allan BEHAVIOURAL ECONOMICS CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY Michelle Baddeley Helen Morales BESTSELLERS John Sutherland CLASSICS Mary Beard and THE BIBLE John Riches John Henderson BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY CLAUSEWITZ Michael Howard Eric H. Cline CLIMATE Mark Maslin BIOGRAPHY Hermione Lee CLIMATE CHANGE Mark Maslin BLACK HOLES Katherine Blundell CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY BLOOD Chris Cooper Susan Llewelyn and THE BLUES Elijah Wald Katie Aafjes-van Doorn THE BODY Chris Shilling COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE THE BOOK OF MORMON Richard Passingham Terryl Givens THE COLD WAR Robert McMahon BORDERS Alexander C. Diener and COLONIAL AMERICA Alan Taylor Joshua Hagen COLONIAL LATIN AMERICAN THE BRAIN Michael O’Shea LITERATURE Rolena Adorno BRANDING Robert Jones COMBINATORICS Robin Wilson THE BRICS Andrew F. Cooper COMEDY Matthew Bevis THE BRITISH CONSTITUTION COMMUNISM Leslie Holmes Martin Loughlin COMPLEXITY John H. Holland THE BRITISH EMPIRE Ashley Jackson THE COMPUTER Darrel Ince BRITISH POLITICS Anthony Wright COMPUTER SCIENCE BUDDHA Michael Carrithers Subrata Dasgupta BUDDHISM Damien Keown CONFUCIANISM Daniel K. Gardner BUDDHIST ETHICS Damien Keown THE CONQUISTADORS BYZANTIUM Peter Sarris Matthew Restall and CALVINISM Jon Balserak Felipe Fernández-Armesto CANCER Nicholas James CONSCIENCE Paul Strohm CAPITALISM James Fulcher CONSCIOUSNESS Susan Blackmore CATHOLICISM Gerald O’Collins CONTEMPORARY ART CAUSATION Stephen Mumford and Julian Stallabrass Rani Lill Anjum CONTEMPORARY FICTION THE CELL Terence Allen and Robert Eaglestone Graham Cowling CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY THE CELTS Barry Cunliffe Simon Critchley CHAOS Leonard Smith COPERNICUS Owen Gingerich CHEMISTRY Peter Atkins CORAL REEFS Charles Sheppard OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 25/04/17, SPi CORPORATE SOCIAL EMPIRE Stephen Howe RESPONSIBILITY Jeremy Moon ENGELS Terrell Carver CORRUPTION Leslie Holmes ENGINEERING David Blockley COSMOLOGY Peter Coles ENGLISH LITERATURE Jonathan Bate CRIME FICTION Richard Bradford THE ENLIGHTENMENT CRIMINAL JUSTICE Julian V. Roberts John Robertson CRITICAL THEORY ENTREPRENEURSHIP Paul Westhead Stephen Eric Bronner and Mike Wright THE CRUSADES Christopher Tyerman ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS CRYPTOGRAPHY Fred Piper and Stephen Smith Sean Murphy ENVIRONMENTAL CRYSTALLOGRAPHY A. M. Glazer POLITICS Andrew Dobson THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION EPICUREANISM Catherine Wilson Richard Curt Kraus EPIDEMIOLOGY Rodolfo Saracci DADA AND SURREALISM ETHICS Simon Blackburn David Hopkins ETHNOMUSICOLOGY Timothy Rice DANTE Peter Hainsworth and THE ETRUSCANS Christopher Smith David Robey EUGENICS Philippa Levine DARWIN Jonathan Howard THE EUROPEAN UNION John Pinder THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS and Simon Usherwood Timothy H. Lim EUROPEAN UNION LAW DECOLONIZATION Dane Kennedy Anthony Arnull DEMOCRACY Bernard Crick EVOLUTION Brian and DEPRESSION Jan Scott and Deborah Charlesworth Mary Jane Tacchi EXISTENTIALISM Thomas Flynn DERRIDA Simon Glendinning EXPLORATION Stewart A. Weaver DESCARTES Tom Sorell THE EYE Michael Land DESERTS Nick Middleton FAMILY LAW Jonathan Herring DESIGN John Heskett FASCISM Kevin Passmore DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY FASHION Rebecca Arnold Lewis Wolpert FEMINISM Margaret Walters THE DEVIL Darren Oldridge FILM Michael Wood DIASPORA Kevin Kenny FILM MUSIC Kathryn Kalinak DICTIONARIES Lynda Mugglestone THE FIRST WORLD WAR DINOSAURS David Norman Michael Howard DIPLOMACY Joseph M. Siracusa FOLK MUSIC Mark Slobin DOCUMENTARY FILM FOOD John Krebs Patricia Aufderheide FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY DREAMING J. Allan Hobson David Canter DRUGS Les Iversen FORENSIC SCIENCE Jim Fraser DRUIDS Barry Cunliffe FORESTS Jaboury Ghazoul EARLY MUSIC Thomas Forrest Kelly FOSSILS Keith Thomson THE EARTH Martin Redfern FOUCAULT Gary Gutting EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCE Tim Lenton THE FOUNDING FATHERS ECONOMICS Partha Dasgupta R. B. Bernstein EDUCATION Gary Thomas FRACTALS Kenneth Falconer EGYPTIAN MYTH Geraldine Pinch FREE SPEECH Nigel Warburton EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN FREE WILL Thomas Pink Paul Langford FRENCH LITERATURE John D. Lyons THE ELEMENTS Philip Ball THE FRENCH REVOLUTION EMOTION Dylan Evans William Doyle OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 25/04/17, SPi FREUD Anthony Storr THE HISTORY OF TIME FUNDAMENTALISM Malise Ruthven Leofranc Holford-Strevens FUNGI Nicholas P. Money HIV AND AIDS Alan Whiteside THE FUTURE Jennifer M. Gidley HOBBES Richard Tuck GALAXIES John Gribbin HOLLYWOOD Peter Decherney GALILEO Stillman Drake HOME Michael Allen Fox GAME THEORY Ken Binmore HORMONES Martin Luck GANDHI Bhikhu Parekh HUMAN ANATOMY Leslie Klenerman GENES Jonathan Slack HUMAN EVOLUTION Bernard Wood GENIUS Andrew Robinson HUMAN RIGHTS Andrew Clapham GEOGRAPHY John Matthews and HUMANISM Stephen Law David Herbert HUME A. J. Ayer GEOPOLITICS Klaus Dodds HUMOUR Noël Carroll GERMAN LITERATURE Nicholas Boyle THE ICE AGE Jamie Woodward GERMAN PHILOSOPHY IDEOLOGY Michael Freeden Andrew Bowie INDIAN CINEMA Ashish Rajadhyaksha GLOBAL CATASTROPHES Bill McGuire INDIAN PHILOSOPHY Sue Hamilton GLOBAL ECONOMIC HISTORY THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION Robert C. Allen Robert C. Allen GLOBALIZATION Manfred Steger INFECTIOUS DISEASE Marta L. Wayne GOD John Bowker and Benjamin M. Bolker GOETHE Ritchie Robertson INFINITY Ian Stewart THE GOTHIC Nick Groom INFORMATION Luciano Floridi GOVERNANCE Mark Bevir INNOVATION Mark Dodgson and GRAVITY Timothy Clifton David Gann THE GREAT DEPRESSION AND THE INTELLIGENCE Ian J. Deary NEW DEAL Eric Rauchway INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY HABERMAS James Gordon Finlayson Siva Vaidhyanathan THE HABSBURG EMPIRE INTERNATIONAL LAW Vaughan Lowe Martyn Rady INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION HAPPINESS Daniel M. Haybron Khalid Koser THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Cheryl A. Wall Paul Wilkinson THE HEBREW BIBLE AS LITERATURE INTERNATIONAL SECURITY Tod Linafelt Christopher S. Browning HEGEL Peter Singer IRAN Ali M. Ansari HEIDEGGER Michael Inwood ISLAM Malise Ruthven HERMENEUTICS Jens Zimmermann ISLAMIC HISTORY Adam Silverstein HERODOTUS Jennifer T. Roberts ISOTOPES Rob Ellam HIEROGLYPHS Penelope Wilson ITALIAN LITERATURE HINDUISM Kim Knott Peter Hainsworth and David Robey HISTORY John H. Arnold JESUS Richard Bauckham THE HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY JEWISH HISTORY David N. Myers Michael Hoskin JOURNALISM Ian Hargreaves THE HISTORY OF CHEMISTRY JUDAISM Norman Solomon William H. Brock JUNG Anthony Stevens THE HISTORY OF LIFE Michael Benton KABBALAH Joseph Dan THE HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS KAFKA Ritchie Robertson Jacqueline Stedall KANT Roger Scruton THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE KEYNES Robert Skidelsky William Bynum KIERKEGAARD Patrick Gardiner OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 25/04/17, SPi KNOWLEDGE Jennifer Nagel METAPHYSICS Stephen Mumford THE KORAN Michael Cook THE MEXICAN REVOLUTION LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE Alan Knight Ian H. Thompson MICHAEL FARADAY Frank A. J. L. James LANDSCAPES AND MICROBIOLOGY Nicholas P. Money GEOMORPHOLOGY MICROECONOMICS Avinash Dixit Andrew Goudie and Heather Viles MICROSCOPY Terence Allen LANGUAGES Stephen R. Anderson THE MIDDLE AGES Miri Rubin LATE ANTIQUITY Gillian Clark MILITARY JUSTICE Eugene R. Fidell LAW Raymond Wacks MILITARY STRATEGY THE LAWS OF THERMODYNAMICS Antulio J. Echevarria II Peter Atkins MINERALS David Vaughan LEADERSHIP Keith Grint MODERN ART David Cottington LEARNING Mark Haselgrove MODERN CHINA Rana Mitter LEIBNIZ Maria Rosa Antognazza MODERN DRAMA LIBERALISM Michael Freeden Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr LIGHT Ian Walmsley MODERN FRANCE LINCOLN Allen C. Guelzo Vanessa R. Schwartz LINGUISTICS Peter Matthews MODERN IRELAND Senia Pašeta LITERARY THEORY Jonathan Culler MODERN ITALY Anna Cento Bull LOCKE John Dunn MODERN JAPAN LOGIC Graham Priest Christopher Goto-Jones LOVE Ronald de Sousa MODERN LATIN AMERICAN MACHIAVELLI Quentin Skinner LITERATURE MADNESS Andrew Scull Roberto González Echevarría MAGIC Owen Davies MODERN WAR Richard English MAGNA CARTA Nicholas Vincent MODERNISM Christopher Butler MAGNETISM Stephen Blundell MOLECULAR BIOLOGY Aysha Divan MALTHUS Donald Winch and Janice A. Royds MANAGEMENT John Hendry MOLECULES Philip Ball MAO Delia Davin THE MONGOLS Morris Rossabi MARINE BIOLOGY Philip V. Mladenov MOONS David A. Rothery THE MARQUIS DE SADE John Phillips MORMONISM Richard Lyman Bushman MARTIN LUTHER Scott H. Hendrix MOUNTAINS Martin F. Price MARTYRDOM Jolyon Mitchell MUHAMMAD Jonathan A. C. Brown MARX Peter Singer MULTICULTURALISM Ali Rattansi MATERIALS Christopher Hall MULTILINGUALISM John C. Maher MATHEMATICS Timothy Gowers MUSIC Nicholas Cook THE MEANING OF LIFE MYTH Robert A. Segal Terry Eagleton THE NAPOLEONIC WARS MEASUREMENT David Hand Mike Rapport MEDICAL ETHICS Tony Hope NATIONALISM Steven Grosby MEDICAL LAW Charles Foster NAVIGATION Jim Bennett MEDIEVAL BRITAIN John Gillingham NELSON MANDELA Elleke Boehmer and Ralph A. Griffiths NEOLIBERALISM Manfred Steger and MEDIEVAL LITERATURE Ravi Roy Elaine Treharne NETWORKS Guido Caldarelli and MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY Michele Catanzaro John Marenbon THE NEW TESTAMENT MEMORY Jonathan K. Foster Luke Timothy Johnson OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 25/04/17, SPi THE NEW TESTAMENT AS PLATE TECTONICS Peter Molnar LITERATURE Kyle Keefer PLATO Julia Annas NEWTON Robert Iliffe POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY David Miller NIETZSCHE Michael Tanner POLITICS Kenneth Minogue NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN POPULISM Cas Mudde and Christopher Harvie and Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser H. C. G. Matthew POSTCOLONIALISM Robert Young THE NORMAN CONQUEST POSTMODERNISM Christopher Butler George Garnett POSTSTRUCTURALISM NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS Catherine Belsey Theda Perdue and Michael D. Green PREHISTORY Chris Gosden NORTHERN IRELAND PRESOCRATIC PHILOSOPHY Marc Mulholland Catherine Osborne NOTHING Frank Close PRIVACY Raymond Wacks NUCLEAR PHYSICS Frank Close PROBABILITY John Haigh NUCLEAR POWER Maxwell Irvine PROGRESSIVISM Walter Nugent NUCLEAR WEAPONS PROTESTANTISM Mark A. Noll Joseph M. Siracusa PSYCHIATRY Tom Burns NUMBERS Peter M. Higgins PSYCHOANALYSIS Daniel Pick NUTRITION David A. Bender PSYCHOLOGY Gillian Butler and OBJECTIVITY Stephen Gaukroger Freda McManus OCEANS Dorrik Stow PSYCHOTHERAPY Tom Burns and THE OLD TESTAMENT Eva Burns-Lundgren Michael D. Coogan PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION THE ORCHESTRA D. Kern Holoman Stella Z. Theodoulou and Ravi K. Roy ORGANIC CHEMISTRY Graham Patrick PUBLIC HEALTH Virginia Berridge ORGANIZATIONS Mary Jo Hatch PURITANISM Francis J. Bremer PAGANISM Owen Davies THE QUAKERS Pink Dandelion PAIN Rob Boddice QUANTUM THEORY THE PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI John Polkinghorne CONFLICT Martin Bunton RACISM Ali Rattansi PANDEMICS Christian W. McMillen RADIOACTIVITY Claudio Tuniz PARTICLE PHYSICS Frank Close RASTAFARI Ennis B. Edmonds PAUL E. P. Sanders THE REAGAN REVOLUTION Gil Troy PEACE Oliver P. Richmond REALITY Jan Westerhoff PENTECOSTALISM William K. Kay THE REFORMATION Peter Marshall THE PERIODIC TABLE Eric R. Scerri RELATIVITY Russell Stannard PHILOSOPHY Edward Craig RELIGION IN AMERICA Timothy Beal PHILOSOPHY IN THE ISLAMIC THE RENAISSANCE Jerry Brotton WORLD Peter Adamson RENAISSANCE ART PHILOSOPHY OF LAW Geraldine A. Johnson Raymond Wacks REVOLUTIONS Jack A. Goldstone PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE RHETORIC Richard Toye Samir Okasha RISK Baruch Fischhoff and John Kadvany PHOTOGRAPHY Steve Edwards RITUAL Barry Stephenson PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY Peter Atkins RIVERS Nick Middleton PILGRIMAGE Ian Reader ROBOTICS Alan Winfield PLAGUE Paul Slack ROCKS Jan Zalasiewicz PLANETS David A. Rothery ROMAN BRITAIN Peter Salway PLANTS Timothy Walker THE ROMAN EMPIRE Christopher Kelly OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 25/04/17, SPi THE ROMAN REPUBLIC STUART BRITAIN John Morrill David M. Gwynn SUPERCONDUCTIVITY ROMANTICISM Michael Ferber Stephen Blundell ROUSSEAU Robert Wokler SYMMETRY Ian Stewart RUSSELL A. C. Grayling TAXATION Stephen Smith RUSSIAN HISTORY Geoffrey Hosking TEETH Peter S. Ungar RUSSIAN LITERATURE Catriona Kelly TELESCOPES Geoff Cottrell THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION TERRORISM Charles Townshend S. A. Smith THEATRE Marvin Carlson SAVANNAS Peter A. Furley THEOLOGY David F. Ford SCHIZOPHRENIA Chris Frith and THOMAS AQUINAS Fergus Kerr Eve Johnstone THOUGHT Tim Bayne SCHOPENHAUER Christopher Janaway TIBETAN BUDDHISM SCIENCE AND RELIGION Matthew T. Kapstein Thomas Dixon TOCQUEVILLE Harvey C. Mansfield SCIENCE FICTION David Seed TRAGEDY Adrian Poole THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION TRANSLATION Matthew Reynolds Lawrence M. Principe THE TROJAN WAR Eric H. Cline SCOTLAND Rab Houston TRUST Katherine Hawley SEXUALITY Véronique Mottier THE TUDORS John Guy SHAKESPEARE’S COMEDIES Bart van Es TWENTIETH-CENTURY SHAKESPEARE’S TRAGEDIES BRITAIN Kenneth O. Morgan Stanley Wells THE UNITED NATIONS SIKHISM Eleanor Nesbitt Jussi M. Hanhimäki THE SILK ROAD James A. Millward THE U.S. CONGRESS SLANG Jonathon Green Donald A. Ritchie SLEEP Steven W. Lockley and THE U.S. SUPREME COURT Russell G. Foster Linda Greenhouse SOCIAL AND CULTURAL UTILITARIANISM ANTHROPOLOGY Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek and John Monaghan and Peter Just Peter Singer SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY Richard J. Crisp UTOPIANISM Lyman Tower Sargent SOCIAL WORK Sally Holland and THE VIKINGS Julian Richards Jonathan Scourfield VIRUSES Dorothy H. Crawford SOCIALISM Michael Newman VOLTAIRE Nicholas Cronk SOCIOLINGUISTICS John Edwards WAR AND TECHNOLOGY Alex Roland SOCIOLOGY Steve Bruce WATER John Finney SOCRATES C. C. W. Taylor WEATHER Storm Dunlop SOUND Mike Goldsmith THE WELFARE STATE David Garland THE SOVIET UNION Stephen Lovell WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR Stanley Wells Helen Graham WITCHCRAFT Malcolm Gaskill SPANISH LITERATURE Jo Labanyi WITTGENSTEIN A. C. Grayling SPINOZA Roger Scruton WORK Stephen Fineman SPIRITUALITY Philip Sheldrake WORLD MUSIC Philip Bohlman SPORT Mike Cronin THE WORLD TRADE STARS Andrew King ORGANIZATION Amrita Narlikar STATISTICS David J. Hand WORLD WAR II Gerhard L. 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