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• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 13 May 2024

Do the new sciences of well-being provide knowledge that respects the nature of well-being? This text written from the perspective of philosophy of science articulates how this field can speak

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 07 July 2017

Well-being, happiness and quality of life are now established objects of social and medical research. Does this science produce knowledge that is properly about well-being? What sort of well-being? The

• Publisher : Unknown Publisher
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• Release Date : 13 May 2024

How much do we know about what makes people thrive and societies flourish? While a vast body of research has been dedicated to understanding problems and disorders, we know remarkably

• Publisher : Routledge
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• Release Date : 14 April 2016

Well-being occupies a central role in ethics and political philosophy, including in major theories such as utilitarianism. It also extends far beyond philosophy: recent studies into the science and psychology

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 06 May 2004

All human beings have spontaneous needs for happiness, self-understanding, and love. In Feeling Good: The Science of Well Being, psychiatrist Robert Cloninger describes a way to coherent living that satisfies

• Publisher : Guilford Press
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• Release Date : 01 January 2008

This authoritative volume reviews the breadth of current scientific knowledge on subjective well-being (SWB): its definition, causes and consequences, measurement, and practical applications that may help people become happier. Leading

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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• Release Date : 01 February 2017

This book brings together current research on recovery and wellbeing, to inform mental health systems and wider community development.

• Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
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• Release Date : 13 May 2024

Philosophers defend theories of what well-being is but ignore what psychologists have learned about it. And psychologists learn about well-being but lack a theory of what it is. In 'The

• Publisher : Routledge
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• Release Date : 16 November 2020

Emerging research on the subject of happiness—in psychology, economics, and public policy—reawakens and breathes new life into long-standing philosophical questions about happiness (e.g., What is it? Can

• Publisher : Routledge
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• Release Date : 30 July 2015

The concept of well-being is one of the oldest and most important topics in philosophy and ethics, going back to ancient Greek philosophy. Following the boom in happiness studies in