Is there a single concept of well-being?
Anna Alexandrova, A Philosophy for the Science of Well-Being (OUP, 2017) My interest in what is now called the science of well-being dates back to my graduate school days at UC San Diego. Sometime in...
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Anna Alexandrova, A Philosophy for the Science of Well-Being (OUP, 2017) Different people expect different things from theories of well-being. Some expect that they systematise in a maximally general...
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Anna Alexandrova, A Philosophy for the Science of Well-Being (OUP, 2017) Here’s an attitude I sometimes encounter among scientists: “It is not my job as a scientist to figure out what true well-being...
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Anna Alexandrova, A Philosophy for the Science of Well-Being (OUP, 2017) Suppose you agreed with me that the science of well-being should strive to be value-apt, that mid-level theories is the way to...
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