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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
Philosophy
University of Massachusetts, Amherst

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

Office: 362 Bartlett Hall
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

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

Recent and Forthcoming

*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 (forthcoming in American Journal of Psychology)

*Brueckner and Fischer on the Evil of Death (forthcoming in Philosophical Studies. Now available at Phil Studies on line.)

• *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 (forthcoming in 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): 49-79.
• Abstract of What Is This Thing Called Happiness.

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?
• Document for Casey

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Courses

Spring, 2012:

The topic for Phil 760 in Spring, 2012 will be “theories about distributive justice”. The focus will be on some of the views that have been widely debated since the resurgence of interest in this topic due to the work of Rawls and Nozick. Among the theories that might be discussed (in addition to libertarianism and Rawlsianism) are several different forms of egalitarianism, utilitarianism, desertism, prioritarianism, and sufficientism. Part of the project will be the attempt to identify good things to read. We will probably end up reading things by Rawls, Nozick, Sen, Dworkin, Nielsen, Frankfurt , Parfit and many others. Course requirements: you must do the readings, attend and participate in the seminar meetings, submit midterm and final papers. In addition, some students may be asked to give seminar presentations.

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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:

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Hall Table #2

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

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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

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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

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