Is unpleasantness intrinsic to unpleasant experiences?
Philosophical Studies 99 (2):187-210 (2000)
| Abstract | Unpleasant experiences include backaches, moments of nausea, moments of nervousness, phantom pains, and so on. What does their unpleasantness consist in? The unpleasantness of an experience has been thought to consist in: (1) its representing bodily damage; (2) its inclining the subject to fight its continuation; (3) the subject's disliking it; (4) features intrinsic to it. I offer compelling objections to (1) and (2) and less compelling objections to (3). I defend (4) against five challenging objections and offer two reasons to believe it. Hence, I advocate "Intrinsic Nature," the idea that unpleasantness is intrinsic to unpleasant experiences. | |||||||||
| Keywords | Damage Experience Intrinsic Metaphysics Motivation Pain Pleasure | |||||||||
| Categories | ||||||||||
| Options |
|
|||||||||
Download options| PhilPapers Archive |
Upload a copy of this paper Check publisher's policy on self-archival Papers currently archived: 5,701 |
| External links |
  Try with proxy. Try with proxy. |
| Through your library | Configure |
Similar books and articlesRobert Elliot (2005). Instrumental Value in Nature as a Basis for the Intrinsic Value of Nature as a Whole. Environmental Ethics 27 (1):43-56.
Michael J. Zimmerman, Intrinsic Vs. Extrinsic Value. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Aaron Smuts (2011). The Feels Good Theory of Pleasure. Philosophical Studies 155 (2):241-265.
Stuart Rachels (2003). A Defense of Two Optimistic Claims in Ethical Theory. Philosophical Studies 112 (1):1-30.
Murat Aydede (2000). An Analysis of Pleasure Vis-a-Vis Pain. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 61 (3):537-570.
Thomas Hurka (2010). Asymmetries In Value. Noûs 44 (2):199-223.
Robert Audi (1998). The Axiology of Moral Experience. Journal of Ethics 2 (4):355-375.
Irwin Goldstein (1989). Pleasure and Pain: Unconditional Intrinsic Values. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 50 (December):255-276.
Ben Bramble (2013). The Distinctive Feeling Theory of Pleasure. Philosophical Studies 162 (2):201-217.
Christoph Lumer (1997). The Content of Originally Intrinsic Desires and of Intrinsic Motivation. Acta Analytica 18 (18):107-121.
Analytics
Monthly downloads |
Added to index2009-01-28Total downloads40 ( #28,897 of 549,122 )Recent downloads (6 months)1 ( #63,361 of 549,122 )How can I increase my downloads? |
My notes
Discussion
