| dc.contributor.author | Dorsey, Dale | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-12-13T17:08:33Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-12-13T17:08:33Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2015-01 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Dale Dorsey, "The Significance of a Life’s Shape," Ethics 125, no. 2 (January 2015): 303-330. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/22188 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The shape of a life hypothesis holds, very roughly, that lives are better when they have an upward, rather than downward, slope in terms of momentary well-being. This hypothesis is plausible and has been thought to cause problems for traditional principles of prudential value/rationality. In this article, I conduct an inquiry into the shape of a life hypothesis that addresses two crucial questions. The first question is: what is the most plausible underlying explanation of the significance of a life’s shape? The second question is: given its most plausible explanation, what does the shape of a life hypothesis teach us about the nature of prudential value? | en_US |
| dc.publisher | The University of Chicago Press | en_US |
| dc.rights | © 2015 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved. | en_US |
| dc.title | The Significance of a Life’s Shape | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |
| kusw.kuauthor | Dorsey, Dale | |
| kusw.kudepartment | Philosophy | en_US |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1086/678373 | en_US |
| kusw.oaversion | Scholarly/refereed, publisher version | en_US |
| kusw.oapolicy | This item meets KU Open Access policy criteria. | en_US |
| dc.rights.accessrights | openAccess | |
