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Eden Lin

Eden Lin

Eden Lin

Associate Professor & Director of Graduate Admissions

lin.2659@osu.edu

614-292-7914

328 University Hall
230 North Oval Mall
Columbus, OH
43210

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Areas of Expertise

  • Ethics

Education

  • Ph.D. Princeton University (2013)
  • B.Phil. University of Oxford (2008)
  • B.A. University of Pennsylvania (2006)

How to pronounce my name:  

Eden Lin

 

Prof. Lin's personal website, Academia page

Selected Publications:
 

  • “The Experience Requirement on Well-Being,” forthcoming in Philosophical Studies.
  • “Future Desires, the Agony Argument, and Subjectivism about Reasons,” The Philosophical Review 129: 95-130 (2020).
  • “Attitudinal and Phenomenological Theories of Pleasure,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 100: 510-24 (2020).
  • “Why Subjectivists about Welfare Needn’t Idealize,” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 100: 2-23 (2019).
  • “Simple Probabilistic Promotion,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 96: 360-79 (2018).
  • “Welfare Invariabilism,” Ethics 128: 320-45 (2018).
  • "Asymmetrism about Desire Satisfactionism and Time,"  in Mark Timmons (ed.), Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics, vol. 7 (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
  • "Enumeration and Explanation in Theories of Welfare," Analysis 77: 65-73 (2017).
  • "Against Welfare Subjectivism," Nous 51: 354-77 (2017).
  • "How to Use the Experience Machine," Utilitas 28: 314-32 (2016).
  • "The Subjective List Theory of Well-Being," The Australasian Journal of Philosophy 94: 99-114.
  • "Monism and Pluralism," in The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Well-Being, ed. Guy Fletcher (Abingdon, UK: Routledge).
  • "Prudence, Morality, and the Humean Theory of Reasons," The Philosophical Quarterly 65: 220-40.
  • "Pluralism about Well-Being," Philosophical Perspectives 28: 127-54.