Table of Contents

1: Some Puzzles about Happiness
Part One - Some Things that Happiness Isn't
2: Sensory Hedonism about Happiness
3: Kahneman's "Objective Happiness"
4: Subjective Local Preferentism about Happiness
5: Whole Life Satisfaction Concepts of Happiness
Appendix A. Happiness and Time: More Nails in the Coffin of WLS
Appendix B. Happiness =df. Whatever the Happiness Test Measures
Part Two - What Happiness Is
6: What is This Thing Called Happiness?
Appendix C. The Meaning(s) of 'Happy'
7: Attitudinal Hedonism about Happiness
8: Eudaimonism
Appendix D - Five Grades of Demonic Possession
9: The Problem of Inauthentic Happiness
10: Disgusting Happiness
11: Our Authority Over Our Own Happiness
Part Three - Implications for the Empirical Study of Happiness
12: Measuring Happiness
13: Empirical Research; Philosophical Conclusions
14: The Central Points of the Project as a Whole

About the Author

Fred Feldman has been a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst since 1969.

Reviews

`Review from previous edition Feldman is a charming writer, with a knack for compelling and often amusing thought experiments.
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The Guardian
`a terrific piece of work, a real tour de force. The writing is exceptionally clear, the discussion exceptionally straightforward and sensible, the criticism of other philosophers' accounts of the nature and value of happiness exceptionally careful and insightful, and the presentation of Feldman's own account exceptionally interesting ... of interest to philosophers at all levels of sophistication'

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