Article ID: CBB619512357

Two types of psychological hedonism (2016)

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I develop a distinction between two types of psychological hedonism. Inferential hedonism (or “I-hedonism”) holds that each person only has ultimate desires regarding his or her own hedonic states (pleasure and pain). Reinforcement hedonism (or “R–hedonism”) holds that each person's ultimate desires, whatever their contents are, are differentially reinforced in that person's cognitive system only by virtue of their association with hedonic states. I'll argue that accepting R-hedonism and rejecting I-hedonism provides a conciliatory position on the traditional altruism debate, and that it coheres well with the neuroscientist Anthony Dickinson's theory about the evolutionary function of hedonic states, the “hedonic interface theory.” Finally, I'll defend R-hedonism from potential objections.

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Authors & Contributors
Plamper, Jan
Boddice, Rob
James Nikopoulos
Schulz, Armin W.
Chapuisat, Michel
Clavien, Christine
Concepts
Emotions; passions
Psychology
Neurosciences
Pleasure
Pain
Philosophy
Time Periods
20th century, late
19th century
20th century
Ancient
20th century, early
18th century
Places
Great Britain
United States
Greece
Europe
China
Vienna (Austria)
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