overview
Chris Heathwood (PhD, UMass, 2005) joined the Department in 2005 and works mainly in theoretical ethics. He also has interests in the philosophy of mind (in particular, the nature of pleasure and pain) and metaphysics. Most of his research has been on the topic of well-being, or of what things are of ultimate benefit and harm to us, and on various topics in metaethics.
Current Research:听Prof. Heathwood recently finished听a short introductory book called听听for Cambridge University Press, set to appear in October 2021. His longstanding听research project is a book manuscript defending a desire-satisfaction theory of well-being. Alongside that he is working on papers on whether adaptive preferences are a problem for subjective theories of well-being and on desire satisfactionism and ill-being.
When he's not thinking about these topics or teaching about others, he is often hanging out with his two sons, Henry and Charlie, and wife, Nicki. When he's not doing that, he likes to listen to radio stories (which nowadays usually means podcasts), do Bikram yoga, play golf, watch baseball (Youth as much as MLB), or play music with his friends.
For more information, see Chris Heathwood's and .
selected papers
- 鈥�,鈥澨�狈辞没蝉听forthcoming.
- ""听 狈辞没蝉听53 (2019): 664-688
- "," Oxford Studies in Metaethics 10 (2015): 216-244.
- 鈥�,"听in B. Eggleston and D. Miller (eds.),听The Cambridge Companion to Utilitarianism听(Cambridge University Press, 2014), pp. 199鈥�219.
- "," Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 6 (2012): 1-19.
- "," Oxford Studies in Metaethics 6 (2011): 79-106.
- "," Religious Studies 47 (2011): 345-57.
- "," Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 92 (2011): 18-38.
- "," Philosophical Books 50 (2009): 83-98
- 鈥�,鈥� Oxford Studies in Metaethics 3 (2008): 47-73.
- 鈥�,鈥� Philosophical Studies 133 (2007): 23-44.
- 鈥�,鈥� Philosophical Studies 128 (2006): 539-563.
- 鈥�,鈥� Australasian Journal of Philosophy 83 (2005): 487-504.