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| Some Puzzles about Happiness | |
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| The Smile-Shaped Curve of Happiness | |
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| Troubles about Happiness | |
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| Why Worry about Happiness? | |
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| What's in This Book | |
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| Some Things That Happiness Isn�t | |
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| Sensory Hedonism about Happiness | |
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| Bentham, Mill, and Sidgwick on Happiness | |
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| Haybron on Hedonism about Happiness | |
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| Why Hedonism is False | |
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| Kahneman's "Objective Happiness" | |
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| Kahneman and "Instant Utility" | |
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| The Theory of Objective Happiness | |
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| The Intended Role of Objective Happiness | |
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| Problems with Kahneman's Theory | |
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| Subjective Local Preferentism about Happiness | |
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| Forms of Preferentism | |
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| Conceptual Background | |
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| Davis's Theory of Happiness | |
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| Problems for Davis's Form of Local Preferentism | |
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| A Paradox for Preferentism? | |
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| Whole Life Satisfaction Concepts of Happiness | |
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| A Surprising Book Title | |
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| Whole Life Satisfaction Theories of Happiness | |
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| Two Preliminary Problems | |
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| Some Distinctions and a Multitude of Concepts | |
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| Actualism and Hypotheticalism | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Happiness and Time: More Nails in the Coffin of Whole Life Satisfactionism | |
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| Happiness =df. Whatever the Happiness Test Measures | |
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| What Happiness is | |
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| What is This Thing Called Happiness? | |
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| Where We Stand | |
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| A Crucial Distinction | |
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| Happiness at a Time, During an Interval, in a Domain, and in a Life | |
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| Wendell, Dolores, and the New Mother | |
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| The Meaning(s) of 'Happy' | |
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| Some Claims of Ambiguity | |
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| Quine on Ambiguity | |
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| Is 'Happy' Ambiguous? | |
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| Does 'Happy� Have Any of the Suggested Senses? | |
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| The Meaning of �Happy� | |
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| Attitudinal Hedonism about Happiness | |
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| The Problem of Objectless Moods | |
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| "The Missing Element" | |
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| In Praise of Shallow Happiness | |
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| Brett the Drag Racer | |
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| Susan the Pessimistic Student | |
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| Lois and the Dinosaurs | |
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| Tammy | |
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| Tristan and Bruce | |
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| The Philosopher | |
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| Summary | |
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| Eudaimonism | |
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| "Happiness is The Good" | |
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| Welfare, Well-Being, Quality of Life | |
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| Eudaimonism and Survival Strategies | |
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| The Fragmentation of Happiness | |
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| Five Grades of Demonic Possession | |
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| The Problem of Inauthentic Happiness | |
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| The Objection from Non-autonomous Values | |
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| Sumner on Authenticity | |
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| Problems for Sumner's Solution | |
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| Relevance to My Form of Eudaimonism | |
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| Disgusting Happiness | |
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| A Problem for Eudaimonism of all Forms | |
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| Avoiding Controversy | |
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| Our Authority over Our Own Happiness | |
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| Epistemic Authority | |
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| Controlling Authority over Happiness | |
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| Implications for the Empirical Study of Happiness | |
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| Measuring Happiness | |
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| Why Measure? | |
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| Satisfaction with Life and Its Domains | |
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| A Better Way to Measure Happiness | |
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| Review of Cases | |
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| Methodological Comments | |
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| Empirical Research; Philosophical Conclusions | |
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| Layard on the Reality of Happiness | |
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| The "Objective Reality" of Happiness | |
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| Happiness as a Natural Kind | |
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| Concluding Warnings, Clarifications, Disclaimers | |
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| The Central Points of the Project as a Whole | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |