Davies, B. orcid.org/0000-0003-4612-7894 (2023) A new paradox for well-being subjectivism. Analysis, 83 (4). pp. 673-682. ISSN 0003-2638
Abstract
Subjectivists think that our well-being is grounded in our subjective attitudes. Many such views are vulnerable to variations on the ‘paradox of desire’, where theories cannot make determinate judgements about the well-being of agents who take a positive valuing attitude towards their life going badly. However, this paradox does not affect all subjectivist theories; theories grounded on agents’ prudential values can avoid it. This paper suggests a new paradox for subjectivist theories which has a wider scope, and includes such prudential judgement theories. I outline the new paradox and show how two plausible idealisztions (coherence and consideration) will not help. Subjectivists about well-being must either add an additional idealization that can solve the paradox of judgement or explain why such paradoxes do not constitute serious objections to a theory of well-being.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Analysis Trust. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | paradox; judgements; subjectivisms; well-being |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (Sheffield) > Department of Philosophy (Sheffield) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number Wellcome Trust 221220/Z/20/Z |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 20 Dec 2023 12:36 |
Last Modified: | 06 Oct 2024 11:26 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press (OUP) |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1093/analys/anad040 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:206819 |
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