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  title info:
    title: Phenomenal well-being
  name:
    name part: Campbell, Stephen Michael, 1980-
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Varner, Gary E.
    role:
      role term: thesis advisor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: txu
    date issued: 2006
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: remote
  abstract: Hedonism is not terribly popular as a theory of well-being. And there are good reasons to question whether hedonism even supplies the best account of happiness. Yet hedonism captures something important, and it will be the goal of this essay to articulate just what that is. I suggest that hedonism provides the best account of phenomenal well being(PWB). PWB is a restricted form of well-being that relates to the quality of the experience of a life - or, in other words, the quality of one's phenomenal life. If well-being is characterized as "how well one's life goes," then PWB is "how well one's life goes for her, from the inside." In rating a life's PWB, the life is judged solely on the basis of the contents of the experience of that life rated against the experience of the individual's other possible lives. Unlike well-being, PWB is guaranteed to track more robust experiential benefits that a person gets out of living a life. In this work, I discuss the concept of well-being, including the feature of subject-relativity that is sometimes ascribed to it; then, after introducing the concept of a phenomenal life, I develop the concept of phenomenal well-being. I propose what I take to be the best available account of PWB, which involves the hedonistic concept ofsatisfaction. An epistemic model of life-comparison (inspired by Peter Railton's full information account of well-being) on which phenomenal lives are judged on the criterion of satisfaction is presented, followed by some objections, and replies, to PWB as satisfaction. Finally, some rival accounts of PWB are discussed andcritiqued - notably, an account of cognitive life-satisfaction that resembles theories of "life-satisfaction" in happiness theory. The claim is that hedonism supplies the best answer to what makes the experience of our lives go best for us. In the closing chapter, I make some suggestions concerning the significance of this fact.
  note: by Stephen Michael Campbell.
  note: "Major Subject: Philosophy"
  note: Title from author supplied metadata (automated record created on Sep. 15, 2006.)
  note: Vita.
  note: Abstract.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Mode of access: World Wide Web.
  note: System requirements: World Wide Web access and Adobe Acrobat Reader.
  note: M. A. Texas A&M University 2006.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  note: Text (Thesis).
  subject:
    topic: Major philosophy
  subject:
    topic: hedonism
  subject:
    topic: well-being
  identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/3834
  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 061006
    record change date: 20151104075757.0
    record identifier: in00002192377