Transcribe Bentham
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An award-winning crowdsourcing initiative led by the Bentham Project, Faculty of Laws, University College London, engaging people in the transcription of the manuscripts of Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832) for a new edition of his Collected Works.
CfP: The 18th Conference of the International Society for Utilitarian Studies will take place on 23–5 July 2026 at the Faculty of Law, the University of Macau—celebrating the publication of 'Essays on Logic, Ethics, and Universal Grammar' in The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham.
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October 8, 2025 at 9:43 AM
CfP: The 18th Conference of the International Society for Utilitarian Studies will take place on 23–5 July 2026 at the Faculty of Law, the University of Macau—celebrating the publication of 'Essays on Logic, Ethics, and Universal Grammar' in The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham.
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'To be competent to the sacred trust of acting for the public, a man ought to have not merely a tongue to talk about the public—he ought to have a head to think for it and a heart to feel for it: a conception wide enough to take in every branch of the public interest [and] the minutest twig of it.'
June 5, 2025 at 3:12 PM
'To be competent to the sacred trust of acting for the public, a man ought to have not merely a tongue to talk about the public—he ought to have a head to think for it and a heart to feel for it: a conception wide enough to take in every branch of the public interest [and] the minutest twig of it.'
Now available in Utilitas: 📝👇
Xiaobo Zhai, 'Bentham’s Laws in Principem and his Command Theory: a Critique of Hart’s Criticisms'.
shorturl.at/YDrX1 (doi:10.1017/S0953820825000081)
Xiaobo Zhai, 'Bentham’s Laws in Principem and his Command Theory: a Critique of Hart’s Criticisms'.
shorturl.at/YDrX1 (doi:10.1017/S0953820825000081)
April 18, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Now available in Utilitas: 📝👇
Xiaobo Zhai, 'Bentham’s Laws in Principem and his Command Theory: a Critique of Hart’s Criticisms'.
shorturl.at/YDrX1 (doi:10.1017/S0953820825000081)
Xiaobo Zhai, 'Bentham’s Laws in Principem and his Command Theory: a Critique of Hart’s Criticisms'.
shorturl.at/YDrX1 (doi:10.1017/S0953820825000081)
'Jeremy Bentham on Drugs', by Greg Cote and Andrew D. Hathaway, has now been published in the Journal of Bentham Studies. 📣✍️📃
To read or download a free, open access version of the article, please visit the following link:
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To read or download a free, open access version of the article, please visit the following link:
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February 20, 2025 at 1:18 PM
'Jeremy Bentham on Drugs', by Greg Cote and Andrew D. Hathaway, has now been published in the Journal of Bentham Studies. 📣✍️📃
To read or download a free, open access version of the article, please visit the following link:
journals.uclpress.co.uk/jbs/article/...
To read or download a free, open access version of the article, please visit the following link:
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'Mr Bentham, knowing by sad experience the heads and the hearts he had to deal with ... saw that it was not safe for him ... to propose any thing—but to cast himself on the mercy of those who know not what it is to have mercy and ... take those who had vowed his ruin for the arbiters of his fate.'
February 20, 2025 at 12:50 PM
'Mr Bentham, knowing by sad experience the heads and the hearts he had to deal with ... saw that it was not safe for him ... to propose any thing—but to cast himself on the mercy of those who know not what it is to have mercy and ... take those who had vowed his ruin for the arbiters of his fate.'
Now available from Polity: 📚 👇
'Utilitarianism as a Way of Life: Re-envisioning Planetary Happiness' by Bart Schultz, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Chicago.
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'Utilitarianism as a Way of Life: Re-envisioning Planetary Happiness' by Bart Schultz, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Chicago.
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February 18, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Now available from Polity: 📚 👇
'Utilitarianism as a Way of Life: Re-envisioning Planetary Happiness' by Bart Schultz, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Chicago.
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'Utilitarianism as a Way of Life: Re-envisioning Planetary Happiness' by Bart Schultz, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Chicago.
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Call for Papers 📝: Jeremy Bentham, the Panopticon penitentiary scheme, and ‘A Picture of the Treasury’.
Taking place at Bentham House, Faculty of Laws, University College London on 23–4 July 2025.
For the CfP, visit shorturl.at/dIXem, where you will also find a link to the pre-publication text.
Taking place at Bentham House, Faculty of Laws, University College London on 23–4 July 2025.
For the CfP, visit shorturl.at/dIXem, where you will also find a link to the pre-publication text.
February 6, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Call for Papers 📝: Jeremy Bentham, the Panopticon penitentiary scheme, and ‘A Picture of the Treasury’.
Taking place at Bentham House, Faculty of Laws, University College London on 23–4 July 2025.
For the CfP, visit shorturl.at/dIXem, where you will also find a link to the pre-publication text.
Taking place at Bentham House, Faculty of Laws, University College London on 23–4 July 2025.
For the CfP, visit shorturl.at/dIXem, where you will also find a link to the pre-publication text.
'Never ... were eyes more widely open to illegality:—never were ears more obstinately shut against the warnings given of it:—never was any guilty path, once opened, pursued with more inflexible perseverance.'
Bentham in 'A Picture of the Treasury', 24 April 1802 (UC cxx. 510).
Bentham in 'A Picture of the Treasury', 24 April 1802 (UC cxx. 510).
January 29, 2025 at 2:13 PM
'Never ... were eyes more widely open to illegality:—never were ears more obstinately shut against the warnings given of it:—never was any guilty path, once opened, pursued with more inflexible perseverance.'
Bentham in 'A Picture of the Treasury', 24 April 1802 (UC cxx. 510).
Bentham in 'A Picture of the Treasury', 24 April 1802 (UC cxx. 510).
'The storehouse of mercy was in Flint Castle: my source of solvency was the pump at Aldgate. ... The terms granted me were the terms granted to the Carthaginians: and the fate of Panopticon seemed written in the fate of Carthage.'
'A Picture of the Treasury', UC cxxi. 141 (23 February 1802).
'A Picture of the Treasury', UC cxxi. 141 (23 February 1802).
January 16, 2025 at 11:43 AM
'The storehouse of mercy was in Flint Castle: my source of solvency was the pump at Aldgate. ... The terms granted me were the terms granted to the Carthaginians: and the fate of Panopticon seemed written in the fate of Carthage.'
'A Picture of the Treasury', UC cxxi. 141 (23 February 1802).
'A Picture of the Treasury', UC cxxi. 141 (23 February 1802).
'Strong by another’s strength, I was no longer the defenceless reptile that might be trod upon, or shaken off as soon as felt. I might now become restive and difficult to manage. A cook, when she has been skinning eels, must frequently have found their writhings troublesome.'
January 13, 2025 at 4:06 PM
'Strong by another’s strength, I was no longer the defenceless reptile that might be trod upon, or shaken off as soon as felt. I might now become restive and difficult to manage. A cook, when she has been skinning eels, must frequently have found their writhings troublesome.'
'Constrained in my writing, vexed at the miscarriage of my letters and at some of yours having being opened, mortified at the light I seemed to stand in in your opinion, our correspondence seemed to have lost its sweets.'
November 21, 2024 at 11:59 AM
'Constrained in my writing, vexed at the miscarriage of my letters and at some of yours having being opened, mortified at the light I seemed to stand in in your opinion, our correspondence seemed to have lost its sweets.'
Now available to read and download for free, from the Journal of Bentham Studies (UCL Press) 📝🎉
—Steven Sverdlik, 'Bentham's Project of Applied Ethics, c. 1780: A Penal Code. Part 1: Offences', Journal of Bentham Studies 22 (1), 1–40.
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—Steven Sverdlik, 'Bentham's Project of Applied Ethics, c. 1780: A Penal Code. Part 1: Offences', Journal of Bentham Studies 22 (1), 1–40.
doi: doi.org/10.14324/111...
November 13, 2024 at 12:43 PM
Now available to read and download for free, from the Journal of Bentham Studies (UCL Press) 📝🎉
—Steven Sverdlik, 'Bentham's Project of Applied Ethics, c. 1780: A Penal Code. Part 1: Offences', Journal of Bentham Studies 22 (1), 1–40.
doi: doi.org/10.14324/111...
—Steven Sverdlik, 'Bentham's Project of Applied Ethics, c. 1780: A Penal Code. Part 1: Offences', Journal of Bentham Studies 22 (1), 1–40.
doi: doi.org/10.14324/111...
UCL Museums & Cultural Programmes acquires two rare Jeremy Bentham mourning rings, specifically those bequeathed to Dr Neil Arnott (1788–1874) and Henry Bickersteth (1783-1851) 💍
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October 9, 2024 at 9:25 AM
UCL Museums & Cultural Programmes acquires two rare Jeremy Bentham mourning rings, specifically those bequeathed to Dr Neil Arnott (1788–1874) and Henry Bickersteth (1783-1851) 💍
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'Bentham on Democracy, Courts, and Codification', edited by Philip Schofield and Xiaobo Zhai, and published by Cambridge University Press, is currently available to purchase at a 20% discount using the following link and promo code:
www.cambridge.org/9781009013666; LAWX2424. 📖
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October 7, 2024 at 9:33 AM
'Bentham on Democracy, Courts, and Codification', edited by Philip Schofield and Xiaobo Zhai, and published by Cambridge University Press, is currently available to purchase at a 20% discount using the following link and promo code:
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An enormous thank you to everyone who attended the 17th International Society for Utilitarian Studies conference this week at Bentham House, and to everyone who helped to make it possible #ISUS2024
June 21, 2024 at 8:48 AM
An enormous thank you to everyone who attended the 17th International Society for Utilitarian Studies conference this week at Bentham House, and to everyone who helped to make it possible #ISUS2024
Published Today with UCL Press 🎉💃🍾
The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, Volume 13 (July 1828 to June 1832), edited by Philip Schofield, Tim Causer, and Chris Riley
Available in hardback, paperback, and open access .pdf: uclpress.co.uk/bentham13
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The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, Volume 13 (July 1828 to June 1832), edited by Philip Schofield, Tim Causer, and Chris Riley
Available in hardback, paperback, and open access .pdf: uclpress.co.uk/bentham13
20% off print copies with promo code UCL24MC211L 👇
April 11, 2024 at 8:41 AM
Published Today with UCL Press 🎉💃🍾
The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, Volume 13 (July 1828 to June 1832), edited by Philip Schofield, Tim Causer, and Chris Riley
Available in hardback, paperback, and open access .pdf: uclpress.co.uk/bentham13
20% off print copies with promo code UCL24MC211L 👇
The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, Volume 13 (July 1828 to June 1832), edited by Philip Schofield, Tim Causer, and Chris Riley
Available in hardback, paperback, and open access .pdf: uclpress.co.uk/bentham13
20% off print copies with promo code UCL24MC211L 👇
New book release 🚨🎉 👇
'British Modern International Thought in the Making: Politics and Economy from Hobbes to Bentham', edited by Benjamin Bourcier and Mikko Jakonen, and published by Palgrave Macmillan
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'British Modern International Thought in the Making: Politics and Economy from Hobbes to Bentham', edited by Benjamin Bourcier and Mikko Jakonen, and published by Palgrave Macmillan
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February 19, 2024 at 5:02 PM
New book release 🚨🎉 👇
'British Modern International Thought in the Making: Politics and Economy from Hobbes to Bentham', edited by Benjamin Bourcier and Mikko Jakonen, and published by Palgrave Macmillan
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'British Modern International Thought in the Making: Politics and Economy from Hobbes to Bentham', edited by Benjamin Bourcier and Mikko Jakonen, and published by Palgrave Macmillan
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A blog post by Professor Philip Schofield entitled 'Bentham, Queen's College, and Logic', including discussion of a recently-acquired notebook of Bentham's dated February 1761, has been published online by Queen's College, Oxford 👇
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February 14, 2024 at 12:40 PM
A blog post by Professor Philip Schofield entitled 'Bentham, Queen's College, and Logic', including discussion of a recently-acquired notebook of Bentham's dated February 1761, has been published online by Queen's College, Oxford 👇
www.queens.ox.ac.uk/blog/jeremy-...
www.queens.ox.ac.uk/blog/jeremy-...
The Journal of Bentham Studies can now be accessed on the new UCL Press Journals website 🎉
Please visit journals.uclpress.co.uk/jbs/ to read and download past issues, and for information on submitting your research to us
Please visit journals.uclpress.co.uk/jbs/ to read and download past issues, and for information on submitting your research to us
February 12, 2024 at 11:11 AM
The Journal of Bentham Studies can now be accessed on the new UCL Press Journals website 🎉
Please visit journals.uclpress.co.uk/jbs/ to read and download past issues, and for information on submitting your research to us
Please visit journals.uclpress.co.uk/jbs/ to read and download past issues, and for information on submitting your research to us
Coming soon from UCL Press 📖: The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, Volume 13, July 1828 to June 1832—including 474 letters, 3 memorandums, and 1 Last Will and Testament
eds. Philip Schofield, Tim Causer, and Chris Riley
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eds. Philip Schofield, Tim Causer, and Chris Riley
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January 26, 2024 at 2:34 PM
Coming soon from UCL Press 📖: The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, Volume 13, July 1828 to June 1832—including 474 letters, 3 memorandums, and 1 Last Will and Testament
eds. Philip Schofield, Tim Causer, and Chris Riley
www.uclpress.co.uk/products/230...
eds. Philip Schofield, Tim Causer, and Chris Riley
www.uclpress.co.uk/products/230...
'As you love me fail not to answer this by return of post. The bigots are furious against Church Cat. in the Reviews: the Edinburgh dares not touch on the subject. In the last Edinburgh is a Review of Parl. Cat. by Mackintosh.'
Jeremy Bentham writing to his brother Samuel on this day in 1819.
Jeremy Bentham writing to his brother Samuel on this day in 1819.
January 26, 2024 at 1:44 PM
'As you love me fail not to answer this by return of post. The bigots are furious against Church Cat. in the Reviews: the Edinburgh dares not touch on the subject. In the last Edinburgh is a Review of Parl. Cat. by Mackintosh.'
Jeremy Bentham writing to his brother Samuel on this day in 1819.
Jeremy Bentham writing to his brother Samuel on this day in 1819.