Hello everyone! Welcome to another another installment of Soup of the Day (formerly ‘The Pebble’), PEA Soup’s forum for public philosophy. Today’s entry is brought […] Read More
Tag: Welfare
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
A group of our PhD students here at Birmingham asked me to email details of a workshop on the conceptions of a good life which they […] 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
Newman, Lockhart, and Keil recently published their finding that when judging a person’s overall moral goodness or badness across a lifetime, we seem biased toward […] Read More
A lot of interesting work has been done recently on what makes lives meaningful. One brilliant example of this is Susan Wolf’s recent wonderful book […] Read More