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180A Working Test for Well-beingUtilitas 30 (2): 129-142. 2018.In order to make progress in the welfare debate, we need a way to decide whether certain cases depict changes in well-being or not. I argue that an intuitive idea by Nagel has received insufficient attention in the literature and can be developed into a test to that purpose. I discuss a version of such a test proposed by Brad Hooker, and argue that it is unsuccessful. I then present my own test, which relies on the claim that if compassion is fitting towards a person due to her having (or lackin…Read more
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Illinois Institute of TechnologyLewis College of Human SciencesSawyier Predoctoral Teaching Fellow
Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
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Moral Psychology |
Normative Ethics |
Well-Being |
Moral Emotion |
Kant: Ethics |
Kant: Moral Motivation |
Value Theory |
Areas of Interest
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