Finite beings, finite goods: The semantics, metaphysics and ethics of naturalist consequentialism, part II

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 67 (1):24–47 (2003)
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3.0. Well-being as a Challenge to Naturalism. In Chapter Three Adams discusses and criticizes those accounts of a person’s well being which characterize it in terms of counterfactuals regarding her actual desires and preferences. These criticisms are important for the question of ethical naturalism because any plausible naturalist position will have to portray a person’s well-being as somehow or other supervening on features of her psychology and her environment. The sorts of analyses Adams criticizes are the most prominent analyses consistent with this constraint, so it is important to see whether or not Adams’ criticisms of them undermine the prospects for ethical naturalism generally.

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