What is this thing called happiness /
Feldman, Fred, 1941-
What is this thing called happiness / Fred Feldman. - xv, 286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-279) and index.
Some Puzzles about Happiness -- Some Things that Happiness Isn't -- Sensory Hedonism about Happiness -- Kahneman's "Objective Happiness" -- Subjective Local Preferentism about Happiness -- Whole Life Satisfaction Concepts of Happiness -- Happiness and Time: More Nails in the Coffin of WLS -- Happiness =df. Whatever the Happiness Test Measures -- What Happiness Is -- What is This Thing Called Happiness? -- The Meaning(s) of 'Happy' -- Attitudinal Hedonism about Happiness -- Eudaimonism Appendix D - Five Grades of Demonic Possession -- The Problem of Inauthentic Happiness -- Disgusting Happiness -- Our Authority Over Our Own Happiness -- Implications for the Empirical Study of Happiness -- Measuring Happiness -- Empirical Research -- The Central Points of the Project as a Whole. 1. Part One. 2. 3. 4. 5. Appendix A. Appendix B. Part Two. 6. Appendix C. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. Part Three. 12. 13. 14.
Fred Feldman presents a study of the nature and value of happiness. He offers critical discussions of the main philosophical and psychological theories of happiness, and a presentation and defense of his own theory of happiness.
0199571171 9780199571178
2009942570
Happiness--Philosophy
BJ1481 / .F45 2010
152.42
What is this thing called happiness / Fred Feldman. - xv, 286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-279) and index.
Some Puzzles about Happiness -- Some Things that Happiness Isn't -- Sensory Hedonism about Happiness -- Kahneman's "Objective Happiness" -- Subjective Local Preferentism about Happiness -- Whole Life Satisfaction Concepts of Happiness -- Happiness and Time: More Nails in the Coffin of WLS -- Happiness =df. Whatever the Happiness Test Measures -- What Happiness Is -- What is This Thing Called Happiness? -- The Meaning(s) of 'Happy' -- Attitudinal Hedonism about Happiness -- Eudaimonism Appendix D - Five Grades of Demonic Possession -- The Problem of Inauthentic Happiness -- Disgusting Happiness -- Our Authority Over Our Own Happiness -- Implications for the Empirical Study of Happiness -- Measuring Happiness -- Empirical Research -- The Central Points of the Project as a Whole. 1. Part One. 2. 3. 4. 5. Appendix A. Appendix B. Part Two. 6. Appendix C. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. Part Three. 12. 13. 14.
Fred Feldman presents a study of the nature and value of happiness. He offers critical discussions of the main philosophical and psychological theories of happiness, and a presentation and defense of his own theory of happiness.
0199571171 9780199571178
2009942570
Happiness--Philosophy
BJ1481 / .F45 2010
152.42