HANDFIELD, TOBY - In: Utilitas 23 (2011) 04, pp. 402-427
What difference does it make to matters of value, for a desire-satisfactionist, if a given desire is <italic>absent</italic>, rather than <italic>present</italic>? I argue that it is most plausible to hold that the state in which a given desire is satisfied is, other things being equal, incommensurate with the state in which...