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
25 Jul 2013
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28mins
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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35mins
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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32mins
Past Desires and Well-being
Past Desires and Well-being
Some desires are conditional on their persistence and some are not. I aim to show that desire fulfilment theorists shoul... Read more
8 Jul 2013
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27mins
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Well-being and Desire
Well-being and Desire
I address the question of what constitutes an addition to well-being. Perhaps under specifiable conditions what someone ... Read more
8 Jul 2013
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30mins
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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24mins
Should one suffer at all?
Should one suffer at all?
The standard utilitarian view of happiness seems to be 'pleasure and the absence of pain'. But is the happiest life one... Read more
8 Jul 2013
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21mins
Plural Goods
Plural Goods
Economists have tended to assess choices by their contribution to a single good, often pleasure or preference-satisfacti... Read more
8 Jul 2013
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33mins
