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Alan H. Goldman

Alan H. Goldman is the William R. Kenan Jr.Professor of Humanities and Professor of Philosophy at the College of William & Mary. Before joining the faculty there in 2002, he taught for twenty-five years at the University of Miami. He was educated at Yale (BA), Columbia (PhD), and Princeton (NEH Fellowship).

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Alan H. Goldman

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15 Mar 2016

Pleasure (and Happiness and Good Lives)

Philosophers known as hedonists, and probably some slightly more normal people as well, have held that pleasure is the only thing we desire in itself, that pleasure is the only thing good in itself, and that it is the only thing that makes a person’s life good. To evaluate these claims, we must distinguish three … Continue reading "Pleasure (and Happiness and Good Lives)"