2013 Carnegie-Uehiro-Oxford Ethics Conference: Happiness and Well-Being Podcast
1) 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 shall we decide whether one life is better for you than another when your preference...Show More
2) 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 individuals affected by autism. I discuss the use of psychometric tests to understand and...Show More
3) 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 person can appropriately discount, ignore or override a friend's own conception of ...Show More
4) Past Desires and Well-being
Some desires are conditional on their persistence and some are not. I aim to show that desire fulfilment theorists should reject the view that fulfilment of some of a person's past desires for the pre...Show More
5) Well-being and Desire
I address the question of what constitutes an addition to well-being. Perhaps under specifiable conditions what someone desires is pivotal to what should be done, even if fulfilment of the desires doe...Show More
6) The Certain Intrinsic Desirability of Pleasure
I argue that intrinsically desiring to feel pleasure makes it certain that pleasure is intrinsically desirable for you, which it could not do if there is a non-natural, irreducible reason to desire pl...Show More
7) 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 in which there are no suffering at all? Or does one's life as a whole go better...Show More
8) Plural Goods
Economists have tended to assess choices by their contribution to a single good, often pleasure or preference-satisfaction. I discuss how some values can be relevant to social and political choices, i...Show More