Mill John Stuart - Routledge philosophy guidebook to Mill on utilitarianism

I am grateful to the following for extremely helpful comments on all, or almost all, of a penultimate draft: James Griffin, Edward Harcourt, Brad Hooker, Thomas Hurka, Derek Parfit, John Skorupski, Wayne Sumner, Eric Tsui-James, Jonathan Wolff; and for equally useful comments on substantial parts of the text: John Broome, Tim Endicott, Ccile Fabre, Alan Haworth, Andrew Mason, Andrew Moore, Mark Nelson, Ingmar Persson, Peter Sande and Tony Shooman. I am pleased to be able to thank the staff and students of the Department of Philosophy, University of Bucharest, for their insightful remarks on lectures on Mills Utilitarianism I delivered in Cmpulung Moldovenesc, August 1995. I thank especially Valentin Muresan for inviting me to give these lectures. I learned much from a seminar on a draft of the book, organized in April 1996 by the Bioethical Research Group at the University of Copenhagen. I would like to thank Klemens Kappel, Nils Holtug, Karsten Jensen and Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen. I was helped by Michael Rosens response to a paper on the liberalisms of Mill and Tocqueville I delivered at a conference on Mill and the French thought of his time, at the Maison Franchise, Oxford, December 1995. I am indebted also to those students who participated in graduate seminars on Mill I held in Oxford, Michaelmas Term, 1995, and to many of the undergraduates with whom I have studied Mill over the last ten years. I am grateful to Philip Schofield for advice on Bentham, and to Bernard Williams for help in interpreting his views on integrity. I owe thanks to the Principal and Fellows of St Annes College, Oxford, to the British Academy, and to Oxford University for grants of sabbatical leave which greatly expedited the writing of this book. The dedication of the book to my mother and father, Daphne and Tony Crisp, is a meagre return for their constant support.

Roger Crisp
September 1996