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.

Professor Heathwood has written on the nature of welfare, especially desire theories of welfare; the nature of pleasure, especially desire theories of pleasure; and other topics. He is also interested in how desire, pleasure, and welfare connect up with issues in metaethics.

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 play some golf, watch some baseball, or noodle around on the guitar.

Current Research: the nature of welfare, preferentism and self-sacrifice, desire-based theories of reasons, the source of morality.

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

• “Welfare,” in J. Skorupski (ed.), Routledge Companion to Ethics (2009), forthcoming.
• “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.