SEVPRI Philosophy of Priority Setting Tuesday

According to the eudaimonic conception of well-being, normative facts are a type of natural fact. On this view, it is noninstrumentally good for living beings to flourish, where flourishing is understood to be a complex life-form relative functional property. Theorists in this tradition have explicated this functional property in two ways. Some have sought a naturalistic reductive grounding in natural biological kinds. Others explicate functions from an internal point of view, by a hermeneutical method of analysis. Both accounts face compelling objections. The goal of this article is to develop a novel conception of the naturalistic sort that accommodates the cultural facets of human nature in a way that insulates the view from otherwise compelling objections.