Unit 8

Unit 9

Paul Bloom: The Origins of Pleasure

Questions for Discussion

1. What is the Goering story? What is its point?

2. Why do origins matter? What is the first answer a sociologist would give?

3. What is a ‘natural born essentialist?’

4. What does  it mean to say that “pleasure is deep’?

5. How can you get kids to like carrots?

6. How can you get adults to enjoy wine?

7. What affects which people we find attractive?

8. What is the Capgras syndrome and how does it relate to the main point?

9. Recount the example of George Clooney’s sweater. What does it show?

10. Recount the Joshua Bell and Maria Olmsted examples. What do they show?

11. What does the pain experiment show?

12. So why do we prefer originals? What does Denis Dutton say about this?