Browsing by Author "Weijers, Dan M."
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Are philosophers happy?
(2019)Philosophy seems to attract less happy students and then makes them less happy (or encourages the less happy ones to continue) -
Can we be friends with AI? What risks would arise from the proliferation of such friendships?
(The University of Waikato, 2023-05-25)There is no good in-principle reason to oppose the development of human-AI friendships or to hold a moral responsibility to discourage such relationships. -
Deconstructive replication: How to tell if a thought experiment-population pairing is fit for purpose
(2017)Thought experiments/scenarios are often rolled out to help answer research questions The idea is that they tell us what people really think, value, etc. about the research question But how do we know whether the judgments ... -
Does increasing national happiness require decreasing freedom or determining social values?
(2017)Some academics and policymakers have argued that happiness (or subjective well‐being) should be used as a goal for public policy. An important criticism of policy‐based attempts to increase happiness is that they will ... -
Don't miss the well-being train: a radical proposal for revolution in positive psychology
(Frontiers Media SA, 2021)Positive psychologists have added a great deal of knowledge about positive mental states and behaviors, especially over the last 20 years. As evidence is produced in support of the connections between positive psychological ...
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An empirically grounded theory of conscientiousness as an Aristotelian virtue
(The University of Waikato, 2022)This thesis is an interdisciplinary project; I develop a new philosophical theory of conscientiousness as a neo-Aristotelian virtue. I then go on to develop two psychometric measures (one general measure and one student-specific ... -
A capabilities approach to freedom of employment: Hierarchical capabilities
(The University of Waikato, 2021)When people in New Zealand are unhappy with their current employment, they are often advised to find a new job. Implicit here is the assumption that a new job will be better, but it is not entirely clear that this is always ... -
The nature, value and paradoxes of pleasure
(The University of Waikato, 2021)This thesis addresses some of the most important objections to Prudential Hedonism. Prudential Hedonism is a theory of wellbeing⎯the good life for the one living it. Substantively, Prudential Hedonism consists in the claim ... -
Extended identities: The reducibility of non-categorical properties and their bearers
(The University of Waikato, 2020)When we take apart big or complicated things—whether events, processes, systems, objects or states—we find smaller or simpler things. Still, some who purport that everything is physical also want to deny that complicated ... -
Re-presenting Māori and Indigenous understandings of Being: Deconstructing the notion of mental illness
(The University of Waikato, 2020)This thesis examines metaphysics in order to re-present Māori and indigenous understandings of Being and deconstruct the notion of mental illness. A holistic understanding of Being is crucial to Māori and indigenous ...
