Sharon Hewitt
Florence Levy Kay Fellow in Ethics
email: shewitt@brandeis.edu
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Focus of Research Metaethics, Normative Ethics, Utilitarianism. Education Ph.D., New York University B.A., Messiah College |
I am currently conducting research in a few related areas. I continue to develop a version of moral realism based on the property of intrinsic goodness' being identical to (and not merely supervenient upon) a particular phenomenal property, one we might alternatively call "pleasantness." In addition, I am working on defending the hedonistic utilitarianism implied by this metaethical view, and I am also very interested in utopian thought , past and present, as a way of exploring how hedonistic utilitarianism might be best practiced.