The Utilitarian's Guide to Dreams
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21507833 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Adam Piovarchy (0000-0002-5169-2030, Institute for Ethics and Society The University of Notre Dame Australia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 105 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 75-97 |
| Publication date | 2024-03-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Pacific philosophical quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0279-0750 • E-ISSN: 1468-0114 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/papq.12449 |
| OpenAlex | W4389625402 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 57 |
Unpleasant dreams occur much more frequently than many people realise. If one is a hedonistic utilitarian – or, at least, one thinks that dreams have positive or negative moral value in virtue of their experiential quality – then one has considerable reason to try to make such dreams more positive. Given it is possible to improve the quality of our dreams, we ought to be promoting and implementing currently available interventions that improve our dream experiences, and conducting research to find new, more effective interventions
Aesthetics · Dream · Epistemology · Experiential learning · Pedagogy · Psychological intervention · Psychotherapist · Sociology · Virtue · Computer Science · Optimism, Hope, and Well-being · Paranormal Experiences and Beliefs · Philosophy · Psychology · Sleep and Wakefulness Research · Social Psychology
Better Never to Have Been
The prevalence of mental illness in refugees and asylum seekers
The Boundaries of Loss Aversion
Dreaming and the brain
Fearing Fictions
The suberogatory
The reinterpretation of dreams
When More Pain Is Preferred to Less
The foreign policy decision-maker simulation
Famine, Affluence, and Morality
Induction of lucid dreams
A Virtue Epistemology
The Prospects for Sufficientarianism
Why you can't make a computer that feels pain
A New Defense of Hedonism about Well-Being
Pleasure and the Good Life
Do we dream in color? Cultural variations and skepticism
Grandstanding
Dream recall and political ideology
Austrian dream behavior
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |