Midwest Studies in Philosophy

Volume 46, 2022

Well-Being and Ill-Being

Dale Dorsey
Pages 87-107

Ill-Being for Subjectivists
An Ecumenical Primer

The axiological phenomenon of ill-being has been thought to be a special problem for subjectivist theories. I argue here that this common supposition is false. I argue that no leading theory of subjectivism need be unable to accommodate the phenomenon of ill-being. In addition, subjectivists on the whole are licensed to adopt somewhat more outré alternatives, including adopting a disunified approach to ill-being, or rejecting the notion altogether.