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2013 Carnegie-Uehiro-Oxford Ethics Conference: Happiness and Well-Being

Many people and countries are now beginning to evaluate the success of their lives or society not purely in terms of money or gross domestic product. The currency of traditional economics - preference... Read more

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The Certain Intrinsic Desirability of Pleasure

The Certain Intrinsic Desirability of Pleasure

I argue that intrinsically desiring to feel pleasure makes it certain that pleasure is intrinsically desirable for you, ... Read more

8 Jul 2013

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Well-being in a Flux

Well-being in a Flux

Standard forms of desire-based theories of well-being claim that what is better for you is what you prefer. But how shal... Read more

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Well-Being for Autists: Some Conceptual and Methodological Issues

Well-Being for Autists: Some Conceptual and Methodological Issues

The aim of this paper is to provide some concrete guidelines for understanding and measuring the well-being of individua... Read more

8 Jul 2013

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Benefitting Friends and Idealized Theories of Well-Being

Benefitting Friends and Idealized Theories of Well-Being

In this paper I give an overview of the kind of idealized theory I endorse and describe the conditions under which a per... Read more

8 Jul 2013

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Past Desires and Well-being

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Some desires are conditional on their persistence and some are not. I aim to show that desire fulfilment theorists shoul... Read more

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