The heterogeneity problem, which stems from the alleged difficulty of finding out what all pleasant experiences have in common, is largely considered as a substantial issue in the philosophy of pleasure, one that is usually taken as the starting point for theorizing about the essence of pleasure. The goal of this paper is to move the focus away from the heterogeneity problem and toward an alternative approach to pleasure. To do this, I first show that, although the approach stemming from the heterogeneity problem has led to an interesting discussion about the essence of pleasure, it has usually endorsed an introspectionist methodology and other problematic assumptions that have led to doubtful results. I thus propose a natural-kind approach to pleasure, which seeks to determine what, if any, the natural kind of pleasure would consist in. This approach broadens the investigation of pleasure by enabling the use of a larger range of methodological tools, thus opening new promising directions for research.

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从异质性问题到自然类快乐方法

异质性问题源于所谓的发现所有愉快体验的共同点的困难，在很大程度上被认为是快乐哲学中的一个实质性问题，通常被视为快乐本质理论化的起点. 本文的目标是将焦点从异质性问题转移到另一种快乐方法上。为此，我首先表明，虽然源于异质性问题的方法引发了关于快乐本质的有趣讨论，但它通常支持内省主义方法论和其他导致可疑结果的有问题的假设。因此，我提出了一种处理快乐的自然类方法，它试图确定什么是自然类快乐（如果有的话）。