Utilitas

Minds Matter

Utilitas June 11, 2026 Joseph Gottlieb, Jacob Berger, Bob Fischer

Abstract Many claim that there is an important relationship between consciousness and welfare. Call this general view phenomenalism . One way of fleshing out phenomenalism is to hold that consciousness is what makes one the type of entity that can be noninstrumentally better or worse off in the first place. Consciousness is at least a necessary condition on welfare subjecthood . A different...