What is this thing called happiness?
By: Fred Feldman
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780199571178
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [274]-279) and index.
Table of contents: title: Some puzzles about happiness; title: Pt. I. Some things that happiness isn't. Sensory hedonism about happiness; title: Kahneman's "objective happiness"; title: Subjective local preferentism about happiness; title: Whole life satisfaction concepts of happiness; title: Pt. II. What happiness is. What is this thing called happiness?; title: Attitudinal hedonism about happiness; title: Eudaimonism; title: The problem of inauthentic happiness; title: Disgusting happiness; title: Our authority over our own happiness; title: Pt. III. Implications for the empirical study of happiness. Measuring happiness; title: Empirical research; philosophical conclusions; title: The central points of the project as a whole.