In this little exercise in analytic existentialism, I’m going to contrast two kinds of stories we can live through, and suggest that the transition from […] Read More
Author: Antti Kauppinen
Antti Kauppinen is an Academy of Finland Research Fellow at the University of Tampere. He works in ethics, moral psychology, and practical reason, like many other people.
It is not rare to see groups of enraged people engaged in destructive behavior when you turn on the news these days. Such behavior is […] Read More
Samuel Scheffler’s original and provocative Tanner lectures, now published as Death and the Afterlife (OUP 2013), have already stirred discussion about the importance of humanity’s […] Read More
It is an interesting fact about many of our most important choices, such as the choice of what kind of education to pursue, whether and […] Read More
It’s fashionable to call for supplementing traditional economic measures with measures targeting the impact of policies on well-being. Leaving aside worries about measuring well-being and […] Read More
Sam Wren-Lewis is organizing a conference on subjective well-being and public policy at Leeds in July that might be of interest to Peasoupers (indeed, several […] Read More
Suppose, for simplicity, that the basis for moral desert is virtue and what’s deserved is well-being. According to the Ratio View of Comparative Desert, for […] Read More
According to what is now probably the standard view of (transactional) exploitation, it is a matter of someone taking unfair advantage of another (Wertheimer 1996). […] Read More