{"id":254,"date":"2016-07-22T14:22:16","date_gmt":"2016-07-22T14:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/forward-thinking\/?p=254"},"modified":"2016-07-22T14:36:22","modified_gmt":"2016-07-22T14:36:22","slug":"dr-guy-fletcher-wellbeing-topics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/forward-thinking\/dr-guy-fletcher-wellbeing-topics\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Guy Fletcher: Well-being and other topics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This month we talk to Dr Guy Fletcher, a lecturer in philosophy here at Edinburgh. In April Guy published a book on what is becoming an increasing hot topic: The philosophy of well-being. The concept of well-being and happiness has fascinated philosophers of ethics and politics since ancient Greek times and beyond, but recently it has become an increasingly central theme in popular psychology, self-help and even government, with the latter spending increasing amounts of money and resource to promote it.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/274859828&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In the podcast Guy addresses such questions as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Is desire fulfilment the only thing that makes our lives go well?<\/li>\n<li>Can something be good for someone who does not desire it?<\/li>\n<li>Is happiness all that makes our lives go well?<\/li>\n<li>Can we measure happiness?<\/li>\n<li>Can we make ourselves happy?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Later we touch on some of Guy&#8217;s other research interests; his background in meta-ethics and how that relates to morals, and his work in normative thought and talk and how that relates to his current research into moral testimony.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/forward-thinking\/files\/2016\/07\/Guy-Fletcher-Transcript-22.07.16.pdf\">Read the transcript<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Links<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Philosophy-Well-Being-Introduction-Guy-Fletcher\/dp\/1138818356?ie=UTF8&amp;ref_=asap_bc\">Fletcher G. (2016) The Philosophy of Well-being: An Introduction, Oxford, Routledge<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Routledge-Handbook-Philosophy-Well-Being-Handbooks-ebook\/dp\/B0130JOI1Y?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;ref_=tmm_kin_swatch_0&amp;sr=\">Fletcher, G. (2016) The Handbook of Philosophy of Well-being, Oxford, Routledge<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Nudge-Improving-Decisions-Health-Happiness\/dp\/0141040017\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1468579431&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=nudge\">Thaler. R, &amp; Sunstein. C (2009) Nudge: Improving decisions about health, wealth and happiness<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/guyfletcherphilosophy.wordpress.com\/\">https:\/\/guyfletcherphilosophy.wordpress.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month we talk to Dr Guy Fletcher, a lecturer in philosophy here at Edinburgh. In April Guy published a book on what is becoming an increasing hot topic: The philosophy of well-being. 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