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The Experience Machine
Author(s) -
Bramble Ben
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
philosophy compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.973
H-Index - 25
ISSN - 1747-9991
DOI - 10.1111/phc3.12303
Subject(s) - hedonism , epistemology , philosophy , psychology , sociology
In this paper, I reconstruct Robert Nozick's experience machine objection to hedonism about well‐being. I then explain and briefly discuss the most important recent criticisms that have been made of it. Finally, I question the conventional wisdom that the experience machine, while it neatly disposes of hedonism, poses no problem for desire‐based theories of well‐being.

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