What is this thing called happiness? / Fred Feldman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Feldman, Fred, 1941-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Happiness--Philosophy.

Happiness.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (303 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Some puzzles about happiness

Pt. I. 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

Pt. II. What happiness is. What is this thing called happiness?

Attitudinal hedonism about happiness

Eudaimonism

The problem of inauthentic happiness

Disgusting happiness

Our authority over our own happiness

Pt. III. Implications for the empirical study of happiness. Measuring happiness

Empirical research; philosophical conclusions

The central points of the project as a whole.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [274]-279) and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-161436-X

0-19-964593-0

1-283-21548-9

9786613215482

0-19-157335-3

OCLC:

922970531