Books written by Fred Feldman
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Utilitarianism, Hedonism, and Desert: Essays in Moral Philosophy
Thomas Hurka once proposed that the goods enjoyed by members of large populations are worth less than similar goods ... Hurka's view was critically discussed by James L. Hudson , ' The Diminishing Marginal Value of Happy People ' ...
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Doing the Best We Can: An Essay in Informal Deontic Logic
Several years ago I came across a marvelous little paper in which Hector-Neri Castaneda shows that standard versions of act utilitarian l ism are formally incoherent.
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The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Death
According to effectivism, a desire for P is fulfilled at time T only if two things come together at T: S desires P and ... to say that we wrong others at the time we act as it is to say that we wrong them at the time they incur harm.
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What Is This Thing Called Happiness?
Fred Feldman presents a study of the nature and value of happiness. He offers critical discussions of the main philosophical and psychological theories of happiness, and a presentation and defense of his own theory of happiness.
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Pleasure and the Good Life: Concerning the Nature, Varieties, and Plausibility of Hedonism
Since ancient times, hedonism has been one of the most attractive and controversial theories. In this text, the author presents a careful, modern formulation of hedonism, defending the theory against some of the most important objections.
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Confrontations with the Reaper: A Philosophical Study of the Nature and Value of Death
What do we mean when we say that someone is "dying"? Presenting a clear and engaging discussion of the classic philosophical questions surrounding death, this book studies the great metaphysical and moral problems of death.
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Pleasure and the Good Life: Concerning the Nature, Varieties, and Plausibility of Hedonism
So if you fully understand the idea of the beneficial life, then you must also understand the idea of the life good in itself for the one who lives it. It takes only the briefest reflection to see that there is a difference between the ...
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Confrontations with the Reaper: A Philosophical Study of the Nature and Value of Death
positive and quite high, then my individual justice level is low. In this case, I have gotten much more than I deserve. In general, we can say that an individual's justice level in an outcome is highest when what he gets is closest to ...
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Doing the Best We Can: An Essay in Informal Deontic Logic
It says that everyone, x, is such that if x lies down with dogs, then x will probably wake up with fleas. But there are undoubtedly some few individuals who are protected against fleas. For these individuals, the probability of waking ...
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The Story Keeper: Weaving the Threads of Time and Memory, A Memoir
A story of uprooting of the Jewish Feldman family before, during, and after WWII and their coming to America as Holocaust survivors in 1949.
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Mishkin's Paradise: A Play in Two Acts
Mishkin's Paradise, Fred Feldman's play in two acts, is a striking drama of miscarried hope and the extremes of the American dream.
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LSC CPS1 (): LSC CPS1 Intro to Ethics
An anthology of classic readings for the Introduction to Ethics course. Contains no apparatus.