Some thought-experiments just grab you and so you think about them for months. Here’s one that I’ve been pondering about for awhile now. It’s from […] Read More
Tag: Welfare
It’s fairly common to talk about welfare in three categories: hedonism, desire satisfaction, and objectivism (where this includes views like perfectionism and the objective list […] Read More
Psychologist Wray Herbert has written an article for Newsweek about happiness. The title is “Can You Be Too Happy?” How could you be too happy? […] Read More
Update (13 August, 2007). I’ve now written a very short paper on this issue: How to Live a Life Worth Living. As you’ll see, it […] Read More
Check out this interview on MSNBC with Psychiatrist Dr. Donald E. Rosen, conducted by MSNBC health editor Jane Weaver. I’m breaking it down FJM-style.
One of the best parts of Crisp’s book so far is the section on enjoyment. He is a hedonist about well-being – something increases your […] Read More
Sometimes philosophy can be even fun. One way to make it fun is to come up with absurd consequences of otherwise plausible views. This time […] Read More
In Mike Almeida’s recent post, this topic came up: what is it for a person to harm someone? I’m interested in a more general question: […] Read More
In his seminal paper, “Death”, Nagel writes the following: Someone who holds that all goods and evils must be temporally assignable states of the person […] Read More