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This is our dog, Sprocket. Here you see him sitting in a patch of early-morning sunshine in our kitchen. He is a Welsh Terrier, just like his late friend, Pippin. Pippin died in November, 2007 after a long illness.

Fred Feldman
Professor
Philosophy
University of Massachusetts, Amherst

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

Office: 362 Bartlett Hall
Office Hours (Fall 2008): on leave

Office Phone: (413) 545-4226
Fax: (413) 577-3800

Postal Address:
Philosophy Department
352 Bartlett Hall
University of Massachusetts
130 Hicks Way
Amherst, MA 01003-9269

Online Papers (in .pdf, requires Adobe Reader; * indicates a recent addition)

Recent and Forthcoming

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

What Is This Thing Called Happiness? (draft)

Whole Life Satisfaction Concepts of Happiness, (recently came out in Theoria)

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

Timmerman's New Paradox of Hedonism: Neither New nor Paradoxical, Analysis (January, 2006).

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): 49-79.

What is the Rational Care Theory of Welfare? Comments on Stephen Darwall's Welfare and Rational Care, forthcoming as part of a book symposium in Philosophical Studies

Pleasure and Desire (draft)

The Irrelevance of Equality before the Law (draft, revised 11/22/04)

Abstract of new book on happiness (forthcoming March 2010, Oxford University Press)

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

Counterparts, The Journal of Philosophy 68 (1971): 406-409.

On the Intrinsic Value of Pleasures, Ethics 107 (1997): 448-466.

The Good Life: A Defense of Attitudinal Hedonism, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 65 (2002): 604-628.

Adjusting Utility for Justice, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 55 (1995): 567-585.

Basic Intrinsic Value, Philosophical Studies 99 (2000): 319-346.

Desert: Reconsideration of Some Received Wisdom, Mind 104 (1995): 63-77.

Some Puzzles About the Evil of Death, The Philosophical Review 100 (1991): 205-227.

The Termination Thesis, Midwest Studies in Philosophy 24 (2000): 98-115.

Obligations – Absolute, Conditioned, and Conditional, Philosophia 12 (1983): 257-272.

The Principle of Moral Harmony, The Journal of Philosophy 77 (1980): 166-179.

Epistemic Appraisal and the Cartesian Circle, Philosophical Studies 27 (1975): 37-55.

Kripke on the Identity Theory, The Journal of Philosophy 71 ( l974): 665-677.

Sortal Predicates, Noûs 7 (l973): 268-282.

Hyperventilating About Intrinsic Value, The Journal of Ethics 2 (1998): 339-354.

Selected Reviews

Critical study of Unger, Living High and Letting Die, Noûs 32 (1998): 138-147.

Review of Hare, Moral Thinking, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 44 (1983): 131-135.

Review of Mackie, Ethics, The Philosophical Review 88 (1979): 134-137.

Miscellaneous

Abstract of Pleasure and the Good Life: On the Nature, Varieties, and Plausibility of Hedonism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004) (available from OUP's website, Amazon.com, and many other places)

Death, entry in the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. E. Craig (Routledge, 1998)

My Banquet Address for the Chisholm Memorial Conference, Brown University, November 10-12, 2000.

Logic and Ethics, entry in the Encyclopedia of Ethics, 2nd edition, eds. L. Becker and C. Becker (New York: Routledge, 2001), pp. 1011-1017.

What is Philosophy?, chapter from Fred Feldman, A Cartesian Introduction to Philosophy (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1986).

Playing God: A Problem for Physician Assisted Suicide?

Courses

Fall, 2009:

Phil 100 - Introduction to Philosophy

Phil 563 - Ethical Theory

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 (For more information about the Wedding Chest, go to: http://www.tabblo.com/studio/stories/view/1501344/)

Hall Table #2

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

BM W R1100rt

Cordwood Saw

Wood Splitter

Other Photos

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)