Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Utilitarianism

James E. Crimmins is Professor of Political Theory at Huron University College, The University of Western Ontario. His books include Secular Utilitarianism (Oxford,Clarendon, 1990), On Bentham (Belmont, CA, Wadsworth, 2004), and with Catherine Fuller (ed.), Church-of-Englandism and its Catechism Examined, The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 2011).

• 125 bio-critical articles (Jeremy Bentham, Carlyle, Richard Hare, H. L. A. Hart, Hume, Malthus, John Stuart Mill, Peter Singer) 85 topical articles. The concentration is 18c. and 19c., but also contemporary figures like Peter Singer (b. 1946). The topical entries include Animals (Ethical Treatment), Christianity, Death Penalty, Democracy, Economics, Education, Feminism, Idealism, Punishment, Rights

An excellent encyclopedic reference book on the utilitarians and their broad philosophical context ... All academic libraries catering for courses in philosophy or in sociological or political theory can be warmly recommended to consider it for acquisition. Bloomsbury should be congratulated on the production of a well-wrought reference resource on a somewhat specialised subject.