CHRIS HEATHWOOD (PhD, UMass, 2005) joined the CU department in 2005 and works mainly in theoretical ethics, but also has interests in metaphysics and the philosophy of religion.  Most of his research has been on the topic of welfare, or what makes a life go well for the one living it, and on various topics in metaethics.  His paper "The Problem of Defective Desires" won a University of Colorado Provost Faculty Achievement Award in 2010.

When he's not thinking about these topics or teaching about others, he hangs out with his two young sons, Henry and Charlie, and wife, Nicki.  When he's not doing that, he might go running, play some golf, watch some baseball, or beat on his guitar.

Current Research: Heathwood has recently finished a paper on whether morality could have a source, is currently working on encyclopedia-type articles on subjective theories of well-being and on the moral argument for the existence of God, and plans to write a book on desire theories of welfare, tentatively titled Welfare and Getting What We Want.

For more information, see Chris Heathwood's personal website and CV.

• "Desire-Based Theories of Reasons, Pleasure, and Welfare," Oxford Studies in Metaethics 6 (2011): 79-106.
• "The Relevance of Kant's Objection to Anselm's Ontological Argument," Religious Studies 47 (2011): 345-57.
• "Preferentism and Self-Sacrifice," Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 92 (2011): 18-38.
• "Moral and Epistemic Open-Question Arguments," Philosophical Books 50 (2009): 83-98
• “Fitting Attitudes and Welfare,” Oxford Studies in Metaethics 3 (2008): 47-73.
• “The Reduction of Sensory Pleasure to Desire,” Philosophical Studies 133 (2007): 23-44.
• “Desire Satisfactionism and Hedonism,” Philosophical Studies 128 (2006): 539-563.
• “The Problem of Defective Desires,” Australasian Journal of Philosophy 83 (2005): 487-504.