For litigation financiers, the money just keeps coming in the door. Australia-based IMF Bentham Ltd. announced on Thursday its U.S. arm had raised $275 million from outside investors, with the ...

There’s a curious display in a glass-fronted cabinet at University College London. It’s Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832), the philosopher of utilitarianism, social reformer, jurist, and “spiritual founder” ...

Jeremy Bentham's auto-icon is now on display in a glass case in University College London's Student Centre. Courtesy of University College London Visitors passing through the public atrium of ...

Philosopher Jeremy Bentham's severed head will put on display for exhibit, with scientists also looking to see if the famed eccentric may have had autism. Bentham, who died in 1832, was a leading ...

One day toward the beginning of March, an unusual object arrived at a New York City airport. Carefully encased in a foam-padded, specially built wooden chair and strapped in with a bright-blue sash, ...

“Jeremy Bentham” (France, modeled 1830, cast in bronze before 1844), medalist: Pierre Jean David d’Angers, cast by Eck et Durand (courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art) This coming spring, Bentham’s ...

Jeremy Bentham had a problem. He may have been dead, but that wasn't it—the iconoclastic philosopher left strict instructions about what to do with his body after his demise in 1832, and they didn't ...

Since University College London began transcribing the papers of the Enlightenment philosopher Jeremy Bentham more than 50 years ago, it has published 27 volumes of his writings less than half of the ...

February 15 marks the 270th birthday of the English philosopher and social reformer Jeremy Bentham. Bentham is typically remembered for his formulation of the principle of utility: the greatest ...

If you are feeling a little ghoulish and find yourself at a loose end and in London, you can do worse than wander into the cloisters of University College. You will discover, encased in a mahogany and ...