The distinctive feeling theory of pleasure

Bramble, Ben

doi:10.1007/s11098-011-9755-9

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“…Debate about 'goods' usually takes place in the vocabulary of welfare or well-being. Philosophers known as hedonists measure well-being with reference to pleasure (Bramble 2013;Crisp 2006). For hedonists, death is a harm because it deprives the individual of future pleasures.…”

Section: The Deprivation Theory Of the Harm Of Deathmentioning

confidence: 99%

Does a painless death harm an invertebrate?

Hadley

2019

Australian Zoologist

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This paper explains a meaningful sense in which a painless death can be a misfortune for an invertebrate. The account presented is a logical implication of bringing together two distinct pieces of theory: the deprivation account of the harm of death and the biocentric ethical theory developed by the New Zealand philosopher, Nicholas Agar. Combined, the two theories support the following thesis: death harms an invertebrate because it deprives the individual of future biopreference satisfaction.

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Section: The Deprivation Theory Of the Harm Of Deathmentioning

confidence: 99%

Does a painless death harm an invertebrate?

Hadley

2019

Australian Zoologist

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“…A first view-internalism (also sometimes referred to as phenomenological theories; Bramble 2013)-maintains that it is a shared phenomenological quality of the way pleasurable experiences feel that make them pleasurable (Crisp 2006a;Smuts 2011;Bramble 2013;Labukt 2012), 5 while a second view-externalism (or, attitude theories)-sees our attitude towards feelings, or experiences, as essential for pleasure-through, for example, us desiring it (Heathwood 2006). 6 Externalists believe that whether a feeling, or experience, is pleasurable or not depends on our attitude towards it.…”

Section: What Is Pleasure?mentioning

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“…Smuts 2011; Crisp 2006a) or a ''distinctive feeling'' (e.g. Bramble 2013). For externalists, this is less straightforward.…”

Section: What Is Pleasure?mentioning

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Is pleasure all that is good about experience?

Deijl

2018

Philos Stud

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Experientialist accounts of wellbeing are those accounts of wellbeing that subscribe to the experience requirement. Typically, these accounts are hedonistic. In this article I present the claim that hedonism is not the most plausible experientialist account of wellbeing. The value of experience should not be understood as being limited to pleasure, and as such, the most plausible experientialist account of wellbeing is pluralistic, not hedonistic. In support of this claim, I argue first that pleasure should not be understood as a broad term to describe valuable experiences generally. I then analyze responses to the main argument against a monistic view on the value of experience: the philosophy of swine objection. I argue that such responses deviate from the central hedonistic view that only pleasure and pain matter for wellbeing. I then argue that the argument can be avoided on a pluralistic account, and formulate a plausible candidate for an account of pluralistic experientialism, in which, besides pleasure, non-hedonic aspects of experience like novelty, compassion, and aesthetic value also contribute to wellbeing.

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“…Nevertheless, there are important points of overlap, especially in the versions defended by Helm and O'Sullivan & Schroer, since they make use of broad notions like concern that seem to go beyond the content of any single state. The "attitudinal" terminology is found in Feldman (2002); a recent defense of such views can be found in Heathwood (2006) -see Smuts (2011 and Bramble (2013) for critical discussion. 6 have such evaluative content; the protective action was initiated without any representation of the state's badness (since, by hypothesis, the reaction occurred prior to the formation of any evaluative contents).…”

Section: Rationalization and Evaluationmentioning

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