In: Blackwell Public Philosophy Ser. v.55
Intro -- Praise for Happy-People-Pills forAll -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Introductory -- 1.1 The Ends: Greater Happiness -- 1.2 The Means: Pharmacology -- 1.3 The Biological Basis of Happiness -- 1.4 Therapy versus Enhancement -- 1.5 Signposts -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2: What is Living and What is Dead in Brave New World -- 2.1 Introductory -- 2.2 Brief Summary of Brave New World -- 2.3 Brave New World and Bioconservatives -- 2.4 Alcohol Stunting, Indoctrination, and Other Pernicious Means of Soul Crafting -- 2.5 Soma -- 2.6 A Tragic Dilemma or a False Dilemma? -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3: What Do We Mean by 'Happiness'? -- 3.1 Two Senses of 'Happiness': Wellbeing and a Psychological State -- 3.2 Affective Theories of Happiness -- 3.3 Cognitive Accounts of Happiness -- 3.4 Counterexamples to Monism About Happiness -- 3.5 Methodological Remarks -- 3.6 Sensory Hedonism -- 3.7 Not Life Satisfactionism -- 3.8 Folk Psychology -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4: The Elements of the Good Life: It is a Very Big List -- 4.1 Three Theories of the Good Life -- 4.2 The Method of Difference -- 4.3 Refutation of Hedonism -- 4.4 Refutation of Perfectionism -- 4.5 A Very Big Objective List -- 4.6 Desire Satisfaction and the Big Objective List -- 4.7 Objections to the Big Objective List -- 4.8 Objections to the Method of Difference -- 4.9 Inventory and Indexing -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5: Wellbeing and Virtue -- 5.1 Gyges' Ring -- 5.2 Moral Virtue -- 5.3 The Method of Difference -- 5.4 The Sympathy Test -- 5.5 Upright, Unscrupulous, and Non-virtuous -- 5.6 The Immoralist Challenge -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 6: Happiness Promotes Perfection -- 6.1 Huxley's Dilemma -- 6.2 Happiness Causes Achievement: the Common-Sense Case -- 6.3 Happiness Causes Achievement: Social Science Research.
What is living and what is dead in brave new world -- What do we mean by "happiness"? -- The elements of the good life : it is a very big list -- Wellbeing and virtue -- Happiness promotes perfection -- Happy pharmacology -- Arguments for happy-people-pills -- Ethical objections -- Happy-people-pills and public policy.
In: Blackwell Public Philosophy Series v.55
Happy-People-Pills for Allexplores current theories of happiness while demonstrating the need to develop advanced pharmacological agents for the enhancement of our capacity for happiness and wellbeing.Presents the first detailed exploration of the enhancement of happinessA controversial yet rigorous argument that demonstrates the moral imperative for the development and mass distribution of 'happy-pills', to promote the wellbeing of the individual and societyBrings together the philosophy, psychology and biology of happinessMaps the development of the next generation of positive mood pharmacologyOffers a corrective to contemporary accounts of happiness Mark Walkeris Assistant Professor of Philosophy at New Mexico State University, where he occupies the Richard L. Hedden Endowed Chair in Advanced Philosophical Studies. Dr. Walker also serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Evolution and Technologyand on the Board of Directors of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies.
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