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PEA Soup

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Tag: Welfare

Value Theory Posted onMarch 19, 2010

Animal welfare and Kant’s unconditioned/conditioned good distinction

Inspired a bit by Ralph's post critiquing Kant's view of unconditioned or fundamental goods, I've been investigating why Kant arrives at his (in my opinion) […] Read More

Uncategorized Posted onJanuary 21, 2010

The Two Desire-Satisfaction Views

I've recently been mulling over what seems to be a disagreement between desire-satisfaction view theorists about the proper way to formulate a desire-satisfaction view about […] Read More

Applied Ethics Posted onAugust 18, 2009

Does Benatar’s asymmetry argument generalize?

Coming to exist is always a harm. Or so argues David Benatar in his provocative book, Better Never to Have Been.A central pillar of Benatar's […] Read More

Uncategorized Posted onMarch 4, 2009

Kant, Well-being, and Happiness

I’m intrigued by Kant’s remarks on happiness and well-being. I’ve been thinking of the traditional understanding of his view and a passage we’ve discussed in […] Read More

Metaethics Posted onDecember 8, 2008

Well-being and Coherence

I'm attracted to a view of well-being with (roughly) the following structure: x is intrinsically good for y if and only if y believes that […] Read More

Uncategorized Posted onNovember 14, 2008

Does Mill believe in discontinuities?

As we all know, J. S. Mill claims that pleasures differ from each other, not only in quantity, but also in quality. Many commentators have […] Read More

News and Events Posted onJuly 24, 2008

Online reading group on Broome

THIS looks very interesting. The postgraduate students at St Andrews are organising an online reading group on John Broome’s brilliant Weighing Lives book. There’s even […] Read More

Value Theory Posted onFebruary 11, 2008

Objective and Subjective Hedonism

You are offered a choice between two experience machines. Machine A is just like the ones you already know about.  You’ll be on the experience […] Read More

Uncategorized Posted onFebruary 7, 2008

Perfectionism, Hedonism, and Hume

Dale Miller’s recent post on Mill’s theory of value (and subsequent discussion) was quite enlightening. And it set me thinkin’ about qualitative hedonism and perfectionism, […] Read More

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