Structuring Wellbeing

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 105 (3):564-580 (2022)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

Many questions about wellbeing involve metaphysical dependence. Does wellbeing depend on minds? Is wellbeing determined by distinct sorts of things? Is it determined differently for different subjects? However, we should distinguish two axes of dependence. First, there are the grounds that generate value. Second, there are the connections between the grounds and value which make it so that those grounds generate that value. Given these distinct axes of dependence, there are distinct dimensions to questions about the dependence of wellbeing. In this paper, I offer a view of wellbeing that gives different answers with respect to these different dimensions. The view is subjectivist about connections but objectivist about grounds. Pluralist about grounds but monist about connections. Invariabilist about connections but variabilist about grounds. Thus, the view offers a simple account that captures the complexity of wellbeing.

Similar books and articles

The Objectivity of Wellbeing.Matt Ferkany - 2012 - Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 93 (4):472-492.
A Challenge for Capability Measures of Wellbeing.Willem J. A. van der Deijl - 2020 - Social Theory and Practice 46 (3):605-631.
Ethics, knowledge, and a procedural approach to wellbeing.Søren Harnow Klausen - 2023 - Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 66 (1):31-47.
Can Subjectivism Account for Degrees of Wellbeing?Willem van der Deijl & Huub Brouwer - 2021 - Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 24 (3):767-788.
Promoting Research on Wellbeing.Weijers Dan, Jarden Aaron & Powdthavee Nattavudh - 2011 - International Journal of Wellbeing 1 (1).
Achievement, wellbeing, and value.Gwen Bradford - 2016 - Philosophy Compass 11 (12):795-803.

Analytics

Added to PP
2021-08-08

Downloads
529 (#31,425)

6 months
122 (#25,092)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author's Profile

Christopher Frugé
University of Oxford

Citations of this work

Value After Death.Christopher Frugé - 2022 - Ratio 35 (3):194-203.
Why Be a Subjectivist about Wellbeing?Peter Königs - 2022 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy 52 (2):165-179.

Add more citations

References found in this work

Anarchy, State, and Utopia.Robert Nozick - 1974 - New York: Basic Books.
What we owe to each other.Thomas Scanlon - 1998 - Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
On what grounds what.Jonathan Schaffer - 2009 - In David Manley, David J. Chalmers & Ryan Wasserman (eds.), Metametaphysics: New Essays on the Foundations of Ontology. Oxford University Press. pp. 347-383.
Metaphysical Dependence: Grounding and Reduction.Gideon Rosen - 2010 - In Bob Hale & Aviv Hoffmann (eds.), Modality: Metaphysics, Logic, and Epistemology. Oxford University Press. pp. 109-135.
Guide to Ground.Kit Fine - 2012 - In Fabrice Correia & Benjamin Schnieder (eds.), Metaphysical Grounding. Cambridge University Press. pp. 37--80.

View all 41 references / Add more references