What is this thing called happiness / Fred Feldman.
Material type: TextPublisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010Description: xv, 286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0199571171
- 9780199571178
- 152.42 22
- BJ1481 .F45 2010
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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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