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Tag: Welfare

Why Afterlifism Isn’t a Ponzi Scheme

Antti Kauppinen / On Posted onJanuary 4, 2014 / (4) Comments

Samuel Scheffler’s original and provocative Tanner lectures, now published as Death and the Afterlife (OUP 2013), have already stirred discussion about the importance of humanity’s continued survival for the value of our own lives.  » …Read more

What Mary Can Expect When She’s Expecting

Antti Kauppinen / On Posted onNovember 19, 2013 / (29) Comments

It is an interesting fact about many of our most important choices, such as the choice of what kind of education to pursue, whether and whom to marry,  » …Read more

Schmucks and Philosopher Kings: A Dilemma for Well-Being Policy

Antti Kauppinen / On Posted onOctober 3, 2012 / (9) Comments

It’s fashionable to call for supplementing traditional
economic measures with measures targeting the impact of policies on well-being.
Leaving aside worries about measuring well-being and implementing policies,  » …Read more

Workshop: Good Life: Theory and Practice

Jussi Suikkanen / On Posted onApril 5, 2012 / (0) Comments

A group of our PhD students here at Birmingham asked me to email details of a workshop on the conceptions of a good life which they are organising here in June.  » …Read more

Conference: ‘Measures of Subjective Well-being for Public Policy: Philosophical Perspectives’

Antti Kauppinen / On Posted onMarch 30, 2012 / (0) Comments

Sam Wren-Lewis is organizing a conference on subjective well-being and public policy at Leeds in July that might be of interest to Peasoupers (indeed, several of us are speaking there).  » …Read more

Comparative Desert and the Bounds of Well-Being

Antti Kauppinen / On Posted onDecember 7, 2011 / (17) Comments

Suppose, for simplicity, that the basis for moral desert is virtue and what’s deserved is well-being. According to the Ratio View of Comparative Desert, for two people to get what they comparatively deserve,  » …Read more

Aggregating for lifetime character (and well-being): is there an end-of-life bias?

Joshua Glasgow / On Posted onAugust 30, 2011 / (20) Comments

Newman, Lockhart, and Keil recently published their finding that when judging a person’s overall moral goodness or badness across a lifetime, we seem biased toward the end of life (at Cognition here).   » …Read more

Susan Wolf and Meaningfulness

Jussi Suikkanen / On Posted onJune 21, 2011 / (27) Comments

A lot of interesting work has been done recently on what makes lives meaningful. One brilliant example of this is Susan Wolf’s recent wonderful book Meaning in Life and Why It Matters.  » …Read more

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