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This is our dog, Sprocket. Here you see him sitting in a patch of early-morning sunshine in our kitchen.

Fred Feldman
Professor Emeritus
Philosophy
University of Massachusetts, Amherst

E-mail Address: ffeldman@philos.umass.edu

Home Phone: (413) 774-4092
Fax: (413) 577-3800

Postal Address:
187 Mid County Road Leyden MA 01337


Online Papers

Recent, unpublished, and other assorted papers

The Naturalistic Fallacy: What It Is and What It Isn't (forthcoming in CUP anthology on the naturalistic fallacy)

Targeting Welfare (Presented at Princeton Workshop on Well-Being, May 11, 2013)

True and Useful: On the Structure of A Two Level Normative Theory (Utilitas June 2012)

What To Do When You Don't Know What To Do (Presented at New Jersey Regional Philosophical Association, November 2011)

Review of Douglas Kenrick Sex, Murder, and the Meaning of Life (American Journal of Psychology)

Brueckner and Fischer on the Evil of Death (Philosophical Studies on line June 23, 2011.)

What we Learn from the Experience Machine (The Cambridge Companion to Robert Nozick's "Anarchy, State, and Utopia" ed. by John Meadowcroft and Ralf Bader, Cambridge University Press, 2011)

Death and the Disintegration of Personality (The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Death , co-edited by Ben Bradley, Fred Feldman, and Jens Johansson. Oxford University Press .)

Happiness: Empirical Research: Philosophical Conclusions (from RoME I conference)

Whole Life Satisfaction Concepts of Happiness, (Theoria 74,3 September 2008: 219-238. )

Happiness and Subjective Desire Satisfaction: Wayne Davis's Theory of Happiness, Hommage a Wlodek -- A Festschrift for Wlodek Rabinowicz.

The Open Question Argument: What it Isn't; and What it Is, Philosophical Issues 15, 2005, Normativity, 22-43.

Actual Utility, the Objection from Impracticality, and the Move to Expected Utility, Philosophical Studies 129, 1 (May, 2006): 49-

Selected Journal Articles (see CV for complete list of publications)



Some Things That Happened; Recent and Not-so-recent

I was honored to have been awarded the Samuel F. Conti Faculty Fellowship in the spring of 2013. As a result of winning this fellowship, during AY 2013/14 I enjoyed the year off from teaching. At the end of my tenure as a Conti Fellow, I retired on June 1, 2014. I am still directing some dissertations.

During the time when I had the Conti Fellowship, I completed the manuscript of a new book. The title is Distributive Justice: Getting What We Deserve from Our Country. In this book I present criticism of other popular theories of distributive justice -- egalitarian, Rawlsian, sufficientist, prioritarian, libertarian, and others -- and then go on to present and defend my own theory. It is (as the title suggests) a version of the idea that justice is done when people receive the benefits and burdens that they deserve from their countries. The book was published in the UK on July 14, 2016; in the US on September 14, 2016. The OUP advertisement can be seen here: 

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/distributive-justice-9780198782988?cc=us&lang=en&

You can see an abstract of the book here:

I was invited to participate in an interview about the book on the New Books Network. The interview took place late in January 2017. You can listen to it by going to the New Books Network or you can get it here:

http://files.newbooksnetwork.com/philosophy/132philosophyfeldman.mp3

I was also invited to participate in an "Author Meets Critics" session at the Eastern Division APA meeting that will take place in January 2018 in Savannah. Critics will be Stephen Kershnar and Jeff Moriarty.

I was invited to submit a sort of academic autobiography for publication on a website. After quite a lot of back and forth, I agreed to do it. The resulting document can be seen here:

http://www.whatisitliketobeaphilosopher.com/#/fred-feldman/

During November and December of 2016 I devoted a lot of time to an attempt to restore an antique apple cider press. I have attached an incomplete document that describes this project. Check below under "woodworking". It's the last link there. Or, if you prefer, you can see it here.

 



Woodworking

Hepplewhite Lamp Stand

Dining Table

Coffee Tables

Kestrel Birdhouse

Hall Table

Sideboard Table

Butterfly Table

Mantel and Fireplace Surround

Candlestands, Footstool, and Pot

Newport Style Queen Anne Highboy

Jenn Air Stainless Steel Refrigerator

Woodshed

Pablo's Easel*

Book Rack

Wedding Chest (A wedding gift for Elizabeth and Carl)

Hall Table #2

Alden's Bible Box (for more information about the Bible Box, go to:

http://share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=1NcNHLZm6c

Barn Door Project Before

Barn Door Project After

Hayride Wagon

Woodpile Sculpture 2016

Cider Press Restoration Project

 


Vehicles and Implements

*1986 Harley-Davidson FXRT

1951 Ford 8n tractor with Dearborn bucket loader and Woods Billy Goat mower

Gravely tractors

*Trailer

Simplicity snow blower

*2002 Ford Ranger

*2002 Ford Ranger after Ice Storm of December 2008

*1936 Chevy Pickup

*1952 Dodge half-ton pickup

*"Liberty Edition" 1100 cc. Harley-Davidson Sportster

*Early '60's Velocette Venom Veeline Clubman

*BMW R1100rt

*Cordwood Saw

Wood Splitter

*Gravely 1336 Walk Behind Mower

Ferris FW25 Mower

2013 Toyota Tacoma pickup

(Items marked with an asterisk are no longer in my collection.)



Other Photos

Grampa and Alden (January, 2010)

Elizabeth and Charger (circa 1986)

The Feldman Brothers (August, circa 2001)

Pippin Takes a Break (June 2004)

Fred (October 2004)

The Old Carpenter Tavern (Fred's home) (June 2005)

Tavern in Winter

Daylilies Behind Barn Project


 

 

 

 

 

 

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