Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Call generalism about children’s and adults’ wellbeing the thesis that the same theory of wellbeing applies to both children and adults. Our goal is to examine whether generalism is true. While this question has not received much attention in the past, it has recently been suggested that generalism is likely to be false and that we need to elaborate different theories of children’s and adults’ wellbeing. In this paper, we defend generalism against the main objections it faces and make a positive case for it.
This work was supported by the European Research Council [648610].
Article
Accepted version
English
Wellbeing; Children; Generalism; Special goods of childhood; Children’s development
Taylor & Francis
Canadian Journal of Philosophy. 2019;49(8):1146-68
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/canadian-journal-of-philosophy/article/is-childrens-wellbeing-different-from-adults-wellbeing/1AD020559A0CAD2C1213D4460C658B94/share/953f5813c3c40c7f3a5386896e2c4232e9d22a4f
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© This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Canadian Journal of Philosophy on 2019, available online: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00455091.2019.1619354.
