With Dr. Neil Sinhababu, National University of Singapore

Abstract: Pleasure fundamentalism is the view that moral value is pleasure, and this explains all other moral facts. Two arguments favor pleasure fundamentalism. The Reliability Argument examines how frequently the processes generating moral belief lead to truth, and finds the only reliable processes suggesting pleasure's moral value. The Universality Argument shows that all possible moral perceivers should have positive moral feelings about any instance of pleasure, making pleasure's moral value universal. Both arguments have foundations in an Einsteinian naturalism combining empiricism with a spacetime ontology.

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