Philosophy and Happiness

ISBN-13: 9780230224292 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 258 str.

Lisa Bortolotti

Opis

A useful resource for anybody interested in contemporary thinking on happiness, Philosophy and Happiness encompasses a variety of philosophical traditions and draws from empirical work in psychology and economics to answer some of the oldest, and most pressing, questions about what contributes to individual well-being and life satisfaction.

Recenzje

'Individually, the chapters in this book are all of a high quality and can stand on their own, but when read together an interesting dialogue emerges that shows how investigations proceeding from different starting points can work together to reveal a clearer picture of what it is we are studying...A rewarding and thought-provoking read, it proposes some intriguing answers and, perhaps even more importantly, raises still further questions that can help direct our investigations into the elusive nature of happiness.' - International Journal of Well-Being

Spis treści

Acknowledgements Notes on contributors Introducing Philosophy and Happiness; L.Bortolotti PART I: HAPPINESS AND THE MEANINGFUL LIFE Happiness and Meaningfulness: Some Key Differences; T.Metz Happiness, Temporality, Meaning; J.Cottingham Tragic Joyfulness; P.Tabensky Shape and the Meaningfulness of Life; L.James Immortal Happiness; M.Quigley& J.Harris 'I am well, apart from the fact that I have cancer': Explaining Well-being within Illness; H.Carel Suffering in Happy Lives; M.W.Martin PART II: HAPPINESS AND THE MIND. Reflections on Positive Psychology; E.Duncan, I.Grazzani-Gavazzi& U.K.Subba Face Value. Perception and Knowledge of Others' Happiness; E.Zamuner The Politics of Happiness: Subjective vs. Economic Measures as Measures of Social Well-being; E.Angner Happiness and Preference-Satisfaction; I.Law The Politics of the Self: Stability, Normativity and the Lives we can Live with Living; J.Lenman Happiness and Life Choices: Sartre on Desire, Deliberation and Action; J.Fernández The Reflective Life and Happiness; V.Tiberius References and Bibliography Index

O autorze

ERIK ANGNER Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Economics and Director of the PPE Program, University of Alabama, Birmingham, USA HAVI CAREL Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of the West of England, UK JOHN COTTINGHAM Professor of Philosophy, University of Reading and an Honorary Fellow of St John's College Oxford, UK ELAINE DUNCAN Lecturer in Division of Psychology, School of Life Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University, UK and Principal Consultant Psychologist, the Centre for Confidence and Wellbeing in Glasgow, UK JORDI FERNÁNDEZ Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Adelaide, Australia ILARIA GRAZZANI-GAVAZZI Associate Professor in Developmental Psychology, Department of Human Sciences, Universitá di Milano Bicocca, Italy JOHN HARRIS Lord Alliance Professor of Bioethics and Director of the Institute of Science, Ethics and Innovation, School of Law, University of Manchester, UK LAURENCE JAMES works in ethics and has a special interest in the meaning of life IAIN LAW Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Birmingham, UK JAMES LENMAN Professor of Philosophy, University of Sheffield, UK MIKE W. MARTIN Professor of Philosophy, Chapman University in Orange, California, USA THADDEUS METZ Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Wits Centre for Ethics (WICE), University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa MUIREANN QUIGLEY Lecturer in Bioethics, Centre for Social Ethics and Policy and the Institute of Science, Ethics, and Innovation, School of Law, University of Manchester, UK USHA KIRAN SUBBA works in the Department of Psychology at Tribhuwan University, Kathmandu, Nepal PEDRO ALEXIS TABENSKY Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, Rhodes University, South Africa VALERIE TIBERIUS Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Minnesota, USA EDOARDO ZAMUNER Research Associate, Institute of Neuroesthetics, University College, London, UK