Feldman, Fred,  1941- <br/><br/>
What is this thing called happiness / 
Fred Feldman. 
 - xv, 286 pages :  illustrations ;  24 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-279) and index. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0199571171 9780199571178 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2009942570 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Happiness--Philosophy
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BJ1481  / .F45 2010 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>152.42