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982A Defense of Basic Prudential HedonismDissertation, Duke University. 2020.Prudential hedonism is a school of thought in the philosophy of welfare that says that only pleasure is good for us in itself and only pain is bad for us in itself. This dissertation concerns an especially austere form of prudential hedonism: basic prudential hedonism (BPH). BPH claims that all pleasure is good for us in itself, and all pain is bad for us in itself, without exception; that all pleasures feel fundamentally alike, as do all pains; and that the amount of welfare in a person’s life …Read more
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Areas of Specialization
Hedonist Accounts of Well-Being |
Pleasure and Pain |
The Value of Pleasure |
The Value of Lives |