Introspective hedonism: a bibliography

Introspective hedonism is the view that the intrinsic value of hedonic experience can be known directly by introspection.

• Antonin Broi, Une défense de l'hédonisme axiologique, Dialogue, vol. 61, no. 2, 2022, pp. 325–346
• Joseph Carlsmith, Against meta-ethical hedonism, Effective Altruism Forum, December 2, 2022
• Martin Dimitrov, Direct acquaintance with intrinsic value, The Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 75, no. 2, 2024, pp. 428–449
• Martin Dimitrov, The evaluative qualia theory of pleasure and displeasure, Synthese, vol. 205, no. 1, 2025, pp. 22
• Gus Docker, The feeling of value - Sharon Hewitt Rawlette, Utilitarian Podcast, July 25, 2021
• Louis Gularte, Suffering is bad: experiential understanding and the impossibility of intrinsically valuing suffering, Synthese, vol. 202, no. 6, 2023, pp. 199
• Andrew Y. Lee, Metaethical experientialism, in Geoffrey Lee and Adam Pautz (eds.) The Importance of Being Conscious
• Clarence Irving Lewis, An analysis of knowledge and valuation, La Salle, 1946, ch. 13
• Stuart Rachels, Hedonic value, 1998
• Sharon Hewitt Rawlette, The feeling of value: Moral realism grounded in phenomenal consciousness, King George, Virginia, 2016
• Neil Sinhababu, Pleasure Is Goodness; Morality Is Universal, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, vol. 27, no. 5, 2024, pp. 725–741
• Neil Sinhababu, The Reliable Route From Nonmoral Evidence To Moral Conclusions, Erkenntnis, vol. 89, no. 6, 2024, pp. 2321–2341
• Timothy L. S. Sprigge, Is the esse of intrinsic value percipi?: pleasure, pain and value, in Anthony O'Hear (ed.) Philosophy, the Good, the True and the Beautiful, Cambridge, 2000, pp. 119–140
• Bastian Stern, Pleasure, suffering and the experience of value, 2016

With thanks to Antonin Broi.