Alex Gregory
@alexgregory.bsky.social
Associate Professor in Philosophy, at Southampton, UK. Working on happiness, wellbeing, desire, metaethics, etc. http://alexgregory.name.
Interesting! I look forward to reading it - perhaps I'll drop you a line in the summer? Mine is now under contract with OUP; I said I'd have it done by next September but I have a full draft if you wanted to see a more recent version.
November 26, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Interesting! I look forward to reading it - perhaps I'll drop you a line in the summer? Mine is now under contract with OUP; I said I'd have it done by next September but I have a full draft if you wanted to see a more recent version.
Ah! I will take another look when I get a moment
November 25, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Ah! I will take another look when I get a moment
Sounds interesting! I'd love to see the paper! Have you seen my forthcoming piece on this topic? philpapers.org/rec/GRETIY
Alex Gregory, Take In Your Hen: Fittingness and Hedonic Adaptation - PhilPapers
Humans have a strong tendency to hedonically adapt to their circumstances, so that something that once brought joy eventually brings only indifference. Does this tendency guarantee a kind of failure o...
philpapers.org
November 25, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Sounds interesting! I'd love to see the paper! Have you seen my forthcoming piece on this topic? philpapers.org/rec/GRETIY
Do groups include pairs and other smaller unions? I can see the reasoning for thinking that group intentions are progressively rarer in larger groups, but not the reason for thinking that (e.g.) married couples could not have joint intentions.
October 3, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Do groups include pairs and other smaller unions? I can see the reasoning for thinking that group intentions are progressively rarer in larger groups, but not the reason for thinking that (e.g.) married couples could not have joint intentions.
Congratulations!
September 4, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Congratulations!
Bonus: I give arguments against the orthodox view that instrumental desires are "just" combinations of ultimate desires + means-end beliefs, rather than independent states of mind. I think these arguments are pretty convincing, and its surprising that the orthodoxy here is so entrenched.
August 26, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Bonus: I give arguments against the orthodox view that instrumental desires are "just" combinations of ultimate desires + means-end beliefs, rather than independent states of mind. I think these arguments are pretty convincing, and its surprising that the orthodoxy here is so entrenched.
"Economics textbooks" is the obvious joke answer. A more serious answer is that some right-wing thought emphasizes a certain kind of freedom (e.g. Nozick) so that there may be *very* many different equally utopian outcomes, and so no single vision to write about.
June 18, 2025 at 12:49 PM
"Economics textbooks" is the obvious joke answer. A more serious answer is that some right-wing thought emphasizes a certain kind of freedom (e.g. Nozick) so that there may be *very* many different equally utopian outcomes, and so no single vision to write about.