naa a22 4500 510789609 CHVBK 20180411083315.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20130601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11406-012-9411-4 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11406-012-9411-4 Nilsson Peter School of Health and Social Studies, Dalarna University, Falun, Sweden aut Butler's Stone and Ultimate Psychological Hedonism [Elektronische Daten] [Peter Nilsson] This paper discusses psychological hedonism with a special reference to the writings of Bishop Butler, and Elliot Sober and David Sloan Wilson. Contrary to philosophical orthodoxy, Sober and Wilson have claimed that Butler failed to refute psychological hedonism. In this paper it is argued: (1) that there is a difference between reductive and ultimate psychological hedonism; (2) that Butler failed to refute ultimate psychological hedonism, but that he succeeded in refuting reductive psychological hedonism; and, finally and more importantly, (3) that Butler's criticism of reductive hedonism can be used as a stepping-stone in another argument showing the implausibility of ultimate psychological hedonism as well. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2012 Psychological hedonism nationallicence Psychological egoism nationallicence Desires nationallicence Butler nationallicence Sober and Wilson nationallicence Philosophia Springer Netherlands 41/2(2013-06-01), 545-553 0048-3893 41:2<545 2013 41 11406 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-012-9411-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-012-9411-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Nilsson Peter School of Health and Social Studies, Dalarna University, Falun, Sweden aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Philosophia Springer Netherlands 41/2(2013-06-01), 545-553 0048-3893 41:2<545 2013 41 11406 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer