Eden Lin

Dr. Eden Lin is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Admissions in the Department of Philosophy at The Ohio State University. His research specializes in normative ethics, particularly theories of well-being, prudential value, and the relationship between personal and impersonal value. He defends pluralist accounts of well-being while critically examining hedonistic and desire-satisfaction theories.

Key contributions include work on the experience requirement for well-being, attitudinal theories of pleasure, and asymmetrical approaches to desire satisfaction across time. Recent publications investigate how temporal factors affect well-being assessments and the normative implications of future-oriented desires.

His scholarship engages with foundational questions about what makes lives go well, employing rigorous argumentation to address puzzles involving rationality, introspection, and value comparison across different welfare subjects.