Evan Tiffany is a contemporary moral philosopher associated with the University of Toronto Scarborough, working primarily in normative ethics and metaethics. He is known for his defense of act utilitarianism and his analysis of the relationship between moral wrongness and utility maximization. His work engages critically with objections to consequentialism and attempts to articulate a rigorous formulation of utilitarian moral theory.
Defended the identity thesis that moral wrongness is identical to failure to maximize utility
Contributed to the analytic literature on act utilitarianism and its formulation
Engaged with demandingness and integrity objections to consequentialist ethics
Published work on the structure of moral reasons within a utilitarian framework