This post is partly a “bleg” and partly an invitation for people to give their two cents on what strikes me as a very deep […] Read More
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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
For those who don’t know, Hanna Pickard has developed a very cool site, called “Responsibility Without Blame,” based on her famous article and advocacy. Her […] 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
Welcome to what we expect will be a very interesting and productive discussion of Michael Cholbi and Alex Madva‘s, “Black Lives Matter and the Call for Death […] Read More
Most contemporary work on well-being assumes that individuals have several different kinds of well-being: Momentary well-being—i.e., well-being at a particular point in time. Periodic well-being—i.e., […] Read More
Consider a father who looks at his beloved daughter and thinks, ‘What I want most in life is just for you to be happy.’ In […] Read More
Welcome to our next NDPR Forum, on Suzy Killmister’s book Taking the Measure of Autonomy: A Four-Dimensional Theory of Self-Governance. It was recently reviewed in NDPR […] Read More