Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction / Adam Briggle, Philip Brey and Edward Spence
  • Mapping the landscape
  • Well-being in philosophy, psychology, and economics / Philip Brey
  • Theorizing technology / Carl Mitcham and Adam Briggle
  • Theoretical approaches
  • Quality of life in technological society : a macrosociological approach / Ruut Veenhoven
  • Capabilities and technology / Justine Johnstone
  • Happiness and meaning in a technological age : a psychological approach / Michael Steger and Joo Yeon Shin
  • The ambivalence of the good life : happiness, economics, technology, and relational goods / Luigino Bruni
  • Desire-satisfactionism and technology / Anton Tupa
  • Consumer products and well-being
  • Consuming happiness / Lindsey Patterson and Robert Biswas-Diener
  • Thinking through consumerism and technology / Pak Hang Wong
  • Consumption and sustainability : a neo-epicurean approach to a sustainable good life in a technological world / Edward Spence
  • Cell phones, ipods, and subjective well-being / Valerie Tiberius
  • Information technology and well-being
  • New social media and the virtues / Shannon Vallor
  • Web 2.0: community as commodity? / Diane P. Michelfelder
  • Types of internet use, well-being and the good life : ethical views from prudential psychology / Omar Rosas
  • Virtually good? : disclosing the presuppositions behind the claimed inferiority of virtual worlds / Johnny Hartz Søraker
  • Medical and agricultural technology and well-being
  • What's wrong with techno food? / David Kaplan
  • Human enhancement and well-being / Bengt Brülde
  • On hubris and hybrids : ascesis and the ethics of technology / Peter Paul Verbeek
  • Brave new world : platonism 2.0 / Tsjalling Swierstra
  • Care robots, virtual virtue, and the best possible life / Mark Coeckelbergh
  • Technology design and policy
  • Can we design for well-being? / Ibo van de Poel
  • The university, metrics, and the good life / Robert Frodeman, J. Britt Holbrook and Kelli Barr
  • Science policy and the expectation of health : the case for reforming peer review at the national institutes of health / Adam Briggle
  • Neutrality and technology : ortega y gasset on the good life / Jeroen van den Hoven
  • Technological change and the destabilization of liberal politics / Govert Valkenburg
  • Contributors
  • Index.