naa a22 4500 510789595 CHVBK 20180411083315.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20130601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11406-012-9383-4 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11406-012-9383-4 Moen Ole Department of Philosophy, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway aut The Unity and Commensurability of Pleasures and Pains [Elektronische Daten] [Ole Moen] In this paper I seek to answer two interrelated questions about pleasures and pains: (i) The question of unity: Do all pleasures share a single quality that accounts for why these, and only these, are pleasures, and do all pains share a single quality that accounts for why these, and only these, are pains? (ii) The question of commensurability: Are all pleasures and pains rankable on a single, quantitative hedonic scale? I argue that our intuitions draw us in opposing directions: On the one hand, pleasures and pains seem unified and commensurable; on the other hand, they do not. I further argue that neither intuition can be abandoned, and examine three different paths to reconciliation. The first two are response theory and split experience theory. Both of these, I argue, are unsuccessful. A third path, however—which I label "dimensionalism” —succeeds. Dimensionalism is the theory that pleasure and pain have the ontological status as opposite sides of a hedonic dimension along which experiences vary. This view has earlier been suggested by C. D. Broad, Karl Duncker, Shelly Kagan, and John Searle, but it has not been worked out in detail. In this paper I work out the dimensionalist view in some detail, defend it, and explain how it solves the problem of the unity and commensurability of pleasures and pains. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2012 Pleasure nationallicence Pain nationallicence Heterogeneity objection nationallicence Commensurability nationallicence Philosophia Springer Netherlands 41/2(2013-06-01), 527-543 0048-3893 41:2<527 2013 41 11406 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-012-9383-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-012-9383-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Moen Ole Department of Philosophy, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Philosophia Springer Netherlands 41/2(2013-06-01), 527-543 0048-3893 41:2<527 2013 41 11406 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer