Add to ORKGWhat is the contrary of pleasure? "Pain” is one common answer. This paper argues that pleasure instead has two natural contraries: unpleasure and hedonic indifference. This view is defended by drawing attention to two often-neglected concepts: the formal relation of polar opposition and the psychological state of hedonic indifference. The existence of mixed feelings, it is argued, does not threaten the contrariety of pleasure and unpleasure
According to hedonism about well-being, lives can go well or poorly for us just in virtue of our abi...
In this essay I support, develop and apply a theory of hedonic value. These tasks are interwoven, bu...
The topic of my dissertation is the hedonic calculus. The hedonic calculus presupposes that pleasure...
Abstract: What is the contrary of pleasure? “Pain ” is one common answer. This paper argues that ple...
Mixed feelings occur when a same subject experience both pleasure and displeasure at the same time. ...
This thesis addresses some of the most important objections to Prudential Hedonism. Prudential Hedon...
One common answer to the question of the unity of pleasures is to try to define pleasantness by appe...
In this paper, I engage with Law’s (2008) paper ‘Evil Pleasure Is Good For You!’ I argue that, altho...
In this paper, I engage with Law's (2007) paper 'Evil Pleasure Is Good For You!' I argue that, altho...
Hedonism claims that only pleasure has intrinsic value. Many philosophers contest hedonism by arguin...
This paper argues (i) that the possibility of experiencing at once pleasures and unpleasures does no...
Scholars have typically ignored Plato’s views on the nature and value of pleasure (hêdonê) or reject...
The goal of this essay is a twofold one. My first task is mainly negative: I want to show that the h...
According to hedonism about well-being, lives can go well or poorly for us just in virtue of our abi...
In this essay I support, develop and apply a theory of hedonic value. These tasks are interwoven, bu...
The topic of my dissertation is the hedonic calculus. The hedonic calculus presupposes that pleasure...
Abstract: What is the contrary of pleasure? “Pain ” is one common answer. This paper argues that ple...
Mixed feelings occur when a same subject experience both pleasure and displeasure at the same time. ...
This thesis addresses some of the most important objections to Prudential Hedonism. Prudential Hedon...
One common answer to the question of the unity of pleasures is to try to define pleasantness by appe...
In this paper, I engage with Law’s (2008) paper ‘Evil Pleasure Is Good For You!’ I argue that, altho...
In this paper, I engage with Law's (2007) paper 'Evil Pleasure Is Good For You!' I argue that, altho...
Hedonism claims that only pleasure has intrinsic value. Many philosophers contest hedonism by arguin...
This paper argues (i) that the possibility of experiencing at once pleasures and unpleasures does no...
Scholars have typically ignored Plato’s views on the nature and value of pleasure (hêdonê) or reject...
The goal of this essay is a twofold one. My first task is mainly negative: I want to show that the h...
According to hedonism about well-being, lives can go well or poorly for us just in virtue of our abi...
In this essay I support, develop and apply a theory of hedonic value. These tasks are interwoven, bu...
The topic of my dissertation is the hedonic calculus. The hedonic calculus presupposes that pleasure...