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Chris Heathwood

University of Colorado, Boulder
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  •  98
    On What Will Be: Reply to Westphal
    Erkenntnis 67 (1): 137-142. 2007.
    Jonathan Westphal's recent paper attempts to reconcile the view that propositions about the future can be true or false now with the idea that the future cannot now be real. I attempt to show that Westphal's proposal is either unoriginal or unsatisfying. It is unoriginal if it is just the well-known eternalist solution. It is unsatisfying if it is instead making use of a peculiar, tensed truthmaking principle.
    EternalismThe Open FutureTruthmakers
  •  710
    Could Morality Have a Source?
    Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 6 (2): 1-19. 2012.
    It is a common idea that morality, or moral truths, if there are any, must have some sort of source, or grounding. It has also been claimed that constructivist theories in metaethics have an advantage over realist theories in that the former but not the latter can provide such a grounding. This paper has two goals. First, it attempts to show that constructivism does not in fact provide a complete grounding for morality, and so is on a par with realism in this respect. Second, it explains why…Read more
    Moral Principles, MiscMoral Naturalism and Non-Naturalism, MiscMeta-Ethics, MiscMoral ConstructivismRead more
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    Hedonism
    In Hugh LaFollette (ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Ethics, Blackwell. 2013.
    An encyclopedia entry on hedonistic theories of value and welfare -- the view, roughly, that pleasure is the good.
    The Value of PleasurePleasure and DesireHedonist Accounts of Well-Being
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    The reduction of sensory pleasure to desire
    Philosophical Studies 133 (1): 23-44. 2007.
    One of the leading approaches to the nature of sensory pleasure reduces it to desire: roughly, a sensation qualifies as a sensation of pleasure just in case its subject wants to be feeling it. This approach is, in my view, correct, but it has never been formulated quite right; and it needs to be defended against some compelling arguments. Thus the purpose of this paper is to discover the most defensible formulation of this rough idea, and to defend it against the most interesting objections.
    Pleasure and DesireThe Value of PleasurePleasure and Pain