Stephen Darwall has advanced the rational care theory of welfare, a metaethical thesis about the meaning of welfare judgments. Somewhat informally, here’s the view: RCTW: […] Read More
Tag: Welfare
My previous pre-vital nonexistence is not, and was not, bad for me. My previous pre-vital nonexistence is relevantly similar to my forthcoming post-mortem nonexistence—that is, […] Read More
Inspired by Uriah’s post below, I invent a new kind of zombie (a hedonic-zombie), draw a distinction between strong and weak internalism about the good […] Read More
Campbell Brown and I, along with some BGSU graduate students, are currently reading through John Broome’s most recent book, Weighing Lives. In our most recent […] Read More
In his paper “Why Abortion is Immoral”, Don Marquis urges a reorientation of the abortion debate. Metaphysical issues concerning the personhood of fetuses, which previously […] Read More
As a number of philosophers (e.g., Nussbaum and Elster) have noted, what desires we actually have can depend on what we perceive our options to […] Read More
Fred Feldman (Pleasure and the Good Life) and Chris Heathwood (“The Problem of Defective Desires”) point out the following paradox for desire satisfaction theory, which […] Read More
A couple of months ago, on Orangephilosophy, I posted descriptions of the following two lives: Baby. A three-week-old baby, Baby, dies in an accident. Had […] Read More
I just finished reading Simon Keller’s “Welfare and the Achievement of Goals” for the second time. I had read it earlier when it was just […] Read More