Publication: Not more than a feeling: An experimental investigation into the folk concept of happiness
Not more than a feeling: An experimental investigation into the folk concept of happiness
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Reuter, K., Messerli, M., & Barlassina, L. (2022). Not more than a feeling: An experimental investigation into the folk concept of happiness. Thought: A Journal of Philosophy, 11(1), 41–50. https://doi.org/10.5840/tht20229206
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Affect-based theorists and life satisfaction theorists disagree about the nature of happiness, but agree about this methodological principle: a philosophical theory of happiness should be in line with the folk concept HAPPINESS. In this article, we present two empirical studies indicating that it is affect-based theories that get the folk concept HAPPINESS right: competent speakers judge a person to be happy if and only if that person is described as feeling pleasure/good most of the time. Our studies also show that the judgement that
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Reuter, K., Messerli, M., & Barlassina, L. (2022). Not more than a feeling: An experimental investigation into the folk concept of happiness. Thought: A Journal of Philosophy, 11(1), 41–50. https://doi.org/10.5840/tht20229206
