CSUN Student Philosophy Society

“What’s bad about masochistic pain?”  That’s the question our very own Adam Swenson will address during this lecture.

Adam has interests throughout ethics (meta, normative, and applied), social-political philosophy, philosophy of law, metaphysics, and philosophy of mind. His current research focuses on understanding how long-standing issues in ethics and value theory play out in the phenomena of pain. His published work includes the monograph Pain and Value, and the articles “Pains’ Evils” in Utilitas (2009) and “Privation Theories of Pain” in International Journal for Philosophy of Religion (forthcoming). He the editor of the blog Pain for Philosophers.

Related Links:

• Adam Swenson’s dissertation: Pain and Value
• The pain blog: Pain for Philosophers
• The Center for Sex and Gender Research at CSUN

This event is hosted by the Center for Sex and Gender Research in collaboration with the Department of Philosophy.

Free and open to the public.  Parking on the Cal State Northridge campus costs $5.

For more information, please email Prof. Jacob Hale.