I loved Bill Cosby when I was growing up. I would listen to his records again and again and again. I all but memorized his […] Read More
Category: Happiness
I’m wondering if people think there are plausible cases in which a person’s life would be prudentially better if they were to turn out to […] Read More
Chap. 2 of J. S. Mill’s Utilitarianism is widely interpreted as defending qualitative hedonism, as a view about the nature of personal well-being. On views of […] Read More
A theory of wellbeing contributes to explaining whether this or that state of affairs is a benefit or harm to a particular subject. A natural […] Read More
There is surprisingly little discussion about pain’s badness in the philosophical literature. One might think that it falls naturally out of any of the various […] Read More
Think of the most recent remarkable experience you’ve had. Perhaps it was reading an engrossing novel that opened your eyes to a new depth of […] Read More
Steve Wall and I have been thinking together about what the best theory of well-being that claims that loving the (prudentially) good is itself (prudentially) […] Read More
What do we owe to others as a basic minimum? Having such an account may inform theories of global justice, basic needs, or human rights […] Read More
Think about Belle from Beauty and the Beast. She is a smart, ambitious, independent young woman who trades her freedom for her father’s and over […] Read More