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

a solid contribution to the literature. It deserves to be widely read not just by philosophers, but by anyone with an interest in empirical happiness research or in its public policy implications.
*Erik Angner, Journal of Utilitas*

Feldman is a charming writer, with a knack for compelling and often amusing thought experiments
*Steven Poole's Non-fiction Choice, The Guardian*