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What is this thing called happiness / Fred Feldman.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010Description: xv, 286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0199571171
  • 9780199571178
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 152.42 22
LOC classification:
  • BJ1481 .F45 2010
Contents:
1. Some Puzzles about Happiness -- Part One. Some Things that Happiness Isn't -- 2. Sensory Hedonism about Happiness -- 3. Kahneman's "Objective Happiness" -- 4. Subjective Local Preferentism about Happiness -- 5. Whole Life Satisfaction Concepts of Happiness -- Appendix A. Happiness and Time: More Nails in the Coffin of WLS -- Appendix B. Happiness =df. Whatever the Happiness Test Measures -- Part Two. What Happiness Is -- 6. What is This Thing Called Happiness? -- Appendix C. The Meaning(s) of 'Happy' -- 7. Attitudinal Hedonism about Happiness -- 8. Eudaimonism Appendix D - Five Grades of Demonic Possession -- 9. The Problem of Inauthentic Happiness -- 10. Disgusting Happiness -- 11. Our Authority Over Our Own Happiness -- Part Three. Implications for the Empirical Study of Happiness -- 12. Measuring Happiness -- 13. Empirical Research -- 14. The Central Points of the Project as a Whole.
Summary: 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.
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Book North Campus North Campus Main Collection 152.42 FEL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A473091B

Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-279) and index.

1. Some Puzzles about Happiness -- Part One. Some Things that Happiness Isn't -- 2. Sensory Hedonism about Happiness -- 3. Kahneman's "Objective Happiness" -- 4. Subjective Local Preferentism about Happiness -- 5. Whole Life Satisfaction Concepts of Happiness -- Appendix A. Happiness and Time: More Nails in the Coffin of WLS -- Appendix B. Happiness =df. Whatever the Happiness Test Measures -- Part Two. What Happiness Is -- 6. What is This Thing Called Happiness? -- Appendix C. The Meaning(s) of 'Happy' -- 7. Attitudinal Hedonism about Happiness -- 8. Eudaimonism Appendix D - Five Grades of Demonic Possession -- 9. The Problem of Inauthentic Happiness -- 10. Disgusting Happiness -- 11. Our Authority Over Our Own Happiness -- Part Three. Implications for the Empirical Study of Happiness -- 12. Measuring Happiness -- 13. Empirical Research -- 14. The Central Points of the Project as a Whole.

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.

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