{"id":7815,"date":"2021-08-30T18:11:38","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T17:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/event\/ceppa-talk-thomas-hurka-university-of-toronto\/"},"modified":"2021-11-04T16:23:08","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T16:23:08","slug":"ceppa-talk-thomas-hurka-university-of-toronto","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/event\/ceppa-talk-thomas-hurka-university-of-toronto\/","title":{"rendered":"CEPPA Talk \u2013 Thomas Hurka (University of Toronto)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><u>Title<\/u>: &#8220;Against &#8216;Good For,&#8217; Against &#8216;Well-Being&#8217;&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><u>Abstract:<\/u>\u00a0This paper challenges the widely held view that \u2018good for\u2019, \u2018well- being\u2019, and related terms express a distinctive evaluative concept of central importance for ethics and separate from \u2018simply good\u2019 as used by G.E. Moore and others. More specifically, it argues that there\u2019s no philosophically useful good-for or well-being concept that\u2019s\u00a0<i>neither<\/i>\u00a0merely descriptive in the sense of naturalistic\u00a0<i>nor<\/i> reducible to \u2018simply good\u2019. The paper distinguishes two interpretations of the common claim that the value \u2018good for\u2019 expresses is distinctively \u2018subject-relative\u2019. Neither interpretation, the paper argues, yields a significantly distinct evaluative concept. The ethically fundamental such concept is just \u2018simply good\u2019.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: &#8220;Against &#8216;Good For,&#8217; Against &#8216;Well-Being&#8217;&#8221; Abstract:\u00a0This paper challenges the widely held view that \u2018good for\u2019, \u2018well- being\u2019, and related terms express a distinctive evaluative concept of central importance for&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","_tribe_events_is_hybrid":"","_tribe_events_is_virtual":"","_tribe_events_virtual_video_source":"","_tribe_events_virtual_embed_video":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button_text":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_at":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_to":[],"_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_event":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_views":"","_tribe_events_virtual_url":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[20],"class_list":["post-7815","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry","tribe_events_cat-ceppa-talk","cat_ceppa-talk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/7815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/7815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8153,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/7815\/revisions\/8153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7815"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=7815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}