Multi-Component Theories of Well-being and Their Structure
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 93 (4):439-471 (2012)
| Abstract | The ‘adjustment strategy’ currently seems to be the most common approach to incorporating objective elements into one's theory of well-being. These theories face a certain problem, however, which can be avoided by a different approach – namely, that employed by ‘partially objective multi-component theories.’ Several such theories have recently been proposed, but the question of how to understand their mathematical structure has not been adequately addressed. I argue that the most mathematically simple of these multi-component theories fails, so I proceed to investigate more sophisticated ways to formulate such a theory. I conclude that one of these – the Discount/Inflation Theory – is particularly promising | |||||||||
| Keywords | Well-Being | |||||||||
| Categories | ||||||||||
| Options |
|
|||||||||
Download options| PhilPapers Archive |
Upload a copy of this paper Check publisher's policy on self-archival Papers currently archived: 5,709 |
| External links |
  Try with proxy. |
| Through your library | Configure |
Similar books and articlesPeter Smith (1998). Approximate Truth and Dynamical Theories. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 49 (2):253-277.
William Lauinger (forthcoming). The Missing-Desires Objection to Hybrid Theories of Well-Being. Southern Journal of Philosophy.
Fred Feldman (2012). True and Useful: On the Structure of a Two Level Normative Theory. Utilitas 24 (02):151-171.
Jörgen Sjögren (2011). Indispensability, the Testing of Mathematical Theories, and Provisional Realism. Polish Journal of Philosophy 5 (2):99-116.
Samantha Brennan (1999). Reconciling Feminist Politics and Feminist Ethics on the Issue of Rights. Journal of Social Philosophy 30 (2):260–275.
Gerald D. Doppelt (2011). From Standard Scientific Realism and Structural Realism to Best Current Theory Realism. Journal for General Philosophy of Science 42 (2):295-316.
Eloy Rada (1985). Teorías Y Significado. Theoria 1 (1):185-212.
Caleb Liang (2008). Higher-Order Thought and the Problem of Radical Confabulation. Southern Journal of Philosophy 46 (1):69-98.
Rafael De Clercq (2008). The Structure of Aesthetic Properties. Philosophy Compass 3 (5):894-909.
Timothy Lane & Caleb Liang (2008). Higher-Order Thought and the Problem of Radical Confabulation. Southern Journal of Philosophy 46 (1):69-98.
Reidar Krummradt Lie (1986). The 'Borderzone Zone' Controversy a Study of Theory Structure in Biomedicine. Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 7 (3).
Jill North (2009). The “Structure” of Physics. Journal of Philosophy 106 (2):57-88.
Mario Chiari & Jan Krajíček (1998). Witnessing Functions in Bounded Arithmetic and Search Problems. Journal of Symbolic Logic 63 (3):1095-1115.
Analytics
Monthly downloads |
Added to index2012-03-15Total downloads37 ( #31,995 of 549,753 )Recent downloads (6 months)1 ( #63,425 of 549,753 )How can I increase my downloads? |
My notes
Discussion
