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Making desires satisfied, making satisfied desiresPhilosophical Studies 180 (3): 979-999. 2023.In this paper, I explore a fundamental but under-appreciated distinction between two ways of understanding the desire-satisfaction theory of well-being. According to proactive desire satisfactionism, a person is benefited by the acquisition of new satisfied desires. According to reactive desire satisfactionism, a person can be benefited only by the satisfaction of their existing desires. I first offer an overview of this distinction. I then canvass several ways of developing a general formulatio…Read more
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Too Easy, Too Good, Too Late?Philosophers' Imprint 23 (1). 2023.Plausibly, one important part of a good life is doing work that makes a contribution, or a positive difference to the world. In this paper, however, I explore contribution pessimism, the view that people will not always have adequate opportunities for making contributions. I distinguish between three interestingly different and at least initially plausible reasons why this view might be true: in slogan form, things might become too easy, they might become too good, or we might be too late. Now, …Read more
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What We Together Ought to DoEthics 126 (4): 955-982. 2016.
University of Southern California
PhD, 2019
Cambridge, MA, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Normative Ethics |
Moral Psychology |