–Oct. 2025 – Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), Virtual Conference
–Oct. 2024 – International Society for the Philosophy of the Sciences of the Mind (ISPSM), Virtual Conference
–Aug. 2024 – The Center For Subjectivity Research, Copenhagen, Denmark
Abstract: In this talk, I argue that understanding well-being is a phenomenological problem since the inherent normativity of states of well-being can be elucidated through phenomenological description. Moreover, I provide a phenomenological account of well-being as an autotelic state wherein action is its own reward. I then show how it is at a phenomenological level of analysis that we can distinguish between distinct senses in which autotelic experience can carry normative weight. I conclude by giving a Husserl-inspired account of the intentional, temporal micro-structure of autotelic states that allows us to make a principled distinction between the distinct forms of autotelicity evinced in neutral exercises of skill and in actions that facilitate the cultivation of virtue.