Welfare Subjectivity

The property of being a being whose life can go better or worse for them.

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Welfare Subject
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An entity that has morally significant interests and can be benefited or harmed.
Moral Standing
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The property of mattering morally in one's own right, meriting concern and respect.
Affective States
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Psychological states like emotions, moods, pains, itches, defined by valence and arousal.

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Once More, Without Feeling (Mogensen 2025)
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The working paper itself, presenting a pluralist theory of moral standing and arguing that autonomy can ground moral standing without welfare subjectivity.

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Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

Autonomy does not entail welfare subjectivity.claim0.809
Key premise that autonomy can exist without the capacity for welfare.
Both welfare subjectivity and autonomy can confer moral status.claim0.797
Central thesis of the paper.
subjectivity of valueconcept0.795
The tacit assumption that values, especially in architecture and art, are merely personal opinions without objective reality, rooted in the mechanistic world-picture.
Desire-Satisfaction View of Welfareframework0.788
Philosophical theory that welfare consists in desire-satisfaction, independent of conscious experience.
Model welfareconcept0.783
Motivation for studying LLM internal states: determining whether distress reports reflect genuine internal states
AI welfareconcept0.767
The field concerned with the wellbeing of AI systems, which the paper says must consider benchmark reliability issues from eval awareness.
Being a welfare subject is sufficient for moral standing.claim0.759
Plausible claim used as premise.
Selectivitymethod0.734
Adapted control task metric measuring difference between odds-ratio on original task and arbitrary-label control task