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What is this thing called happiness? / Fred Feldman.
- Title
- What is this thing called happiness? / Fred Feldman.
- Author
- Feldman, Fred, 1941-
- Publication
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
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Details
- Description
- xv, 286 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- 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.
- Uniform Title
- University press scholarship online.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [274]-279) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9780199571178 (hbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2009942570
- OCLC
- 468981078
- SCSB-12875550
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library