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    Scanlon Against Desertist Theories of Justice

    In his 2018 book Why Does Inequality Matter? T. M. Scanlon discusses the question how significant differences of economic advantage can be justified. He surveys a variety of possible justifications. In Chapter 8—...

    Fred Feldman in The Journal of Ethics (2021)

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    Two Visions of Welfare

    In earlier work I defended Intrinsic Attitudinal Hedonism—a view about what makes for individual personal welfare. On this view, a person’s level of welfare is entirely determined by the amounts of intrinsic a...

    Fred Feldman in The Journal of Ethics (2019)

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    Brueckner and Fischer on the evil of death

    According to the Deprivation Approach, the evil of death is to be explained by the fact that death deprives us of the goods we would have enjoyed if we had lived longer. But the Deprivation Approach confronts ...

    Fred Feldman in Philosophical Studies (2013)

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    Fred Feldman in Philosophical Studies (2007)

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    Precis of pleasure and the good life: concerning the nature, varieties, and plausiblity of hedonism

    Fred Feldman in Philosophical Studies (2007)

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    What is the Rational Care Theory of Welfare?

    Fred Feldman in Philosophical Studies (2006)

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    Actual Utility, The Objection from Impracticality, and the Move to Expected Utility

    Utilitarians are attracted to the idea that an act is morally right iff it leads to the best outcome. But critics have pointed out that in many cases we cannot determine which of our alternatives in fact would...

    Fred Feldman in Philosophical Studies (2006)

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    Basic Intrinsic Value

    Fred Feldman in Philosophical Studies (2000)

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    Hyperventilating about Intrinsic Value

    Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Brentano, Moore, and Chisholm have suggested ’’marks‘‘ or criteria of intrinsic goodness. I distinguish among eight of these. I focus in this paper on four: (a) unimprovability, (b) unq...

    Fred Feldman in The Journal of Ethics (1998)

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    On the consistency of act- and motive-utilitarianism: A reply to Robert Adams

    Fred Feldman in Philosophical Studies (1993)

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    The enigma of death

    Fred Feldman in Philosophia (1992)

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    Concerning the paradox of moral reparation and other matters

    Fred Feldman in Philosophical Studies (1989)

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    The Paradox of the Knower

    Fred Feldman in Philosophical Studies (1989)

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    Two Questions about Pleasure

    In this paper, I present my solutions to two closely related questions about pleasure. One of these questions is fairly well known. Quite a few philosophers have discussed it, and the literature contains many ...

    Fred Feldman in Philosophical Analysis (1988)

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    Doing the Best We Can

    An Essay in Informal Deontic Logic

    Fred Feldman in Philosophical Studies Series in Philosophy (1986)

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    Conclusions

    One of the main claims I want to make concerning the views I have presented in the preceding chapters of this book is a claim about their unity. I have been trying here to provide a unified set of accounts of ...

    Fred Feldman in Doing the Best We Can (1986)

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    Utilitarian Foundations

    There is a magnificent old idea according to which the concept of obligation can be understood by appeal to the concepts of possibility and goodness. Roughly, the idea is that something is obligatory if and on...

    Fred Feldman in Doing the Best We Can (1986)

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    Moral Objections to MO

    The sort of neo-utilitarian approach that I advocate has been subjected of a fair amount of criticism. I think it will be useful to spend some time considering and evaluating some of this criticism. I want to ...

    Fred Feldman in Doing the Best We Can (1986)

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    Hypothetical Imperatives

    The moral writings of Immanuel Kant have drawn attention to a class of interesting and puzzling iffy oughts. These are the so-called “hypothetical imperatives”. While some philosophers1 have apparently used the t...

    Fred Feldman in Doing the Best We Can (1986)

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    Individual Obligation and Group Welfare

    Many moral thinkers have accepted the notion that there is an important connection between moral obligation and group welfare. More specifically, they have thought that the welfare of a social group would more...

    Fred Feldman in Doing the Best We Can (1986)

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