Oysters and Experience Machines: Two Puzzles in Value Theory

Richard Kraut is a Charles and Emma Morrison Professor in the Humanities, in the Department of Philosophy, Northwestern University. His interests include contemporary moral and political philosophy and the ethics and political thought of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. Among his publications are Against Absolute Goodness (Oxford, 2011), What is Good and Why: The Ethics of Well-Being (Harvard, 2007), Aristotle: Political Philosophy (Oxford, 2002), Aristotle, Politics Books VII and VIII: Translated with a Commentary (Clarendon Aristotle Series, 1997), Aristotle on the Human Good (Princeton, 1989), and Socrates and the State (Princeton, 1984). He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.