Happy-People-Pills For All
Almost everyone seeks to achieve happiness in their lives, yet the thought of a pharmacological enhancement to our ability to be happy makes most people recoil in horror. Why is this? Happy-People-Pills for All explores the latest theories and debates on what it means to be happy while addressing the prospects for advanced pharmacological agents to enhance our capacity for happiness and wellbeing. As distinguished from happy pills (drugs that distort cognition), future happy-people-pills will mimic the positive emotional states of the hyperthymic temperament. Noting that contemporary social science research supports the view that happiness pr…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-118-35731-6
- EAN: 9781118357316
- Produktnummer: 16369572
- Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 296 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'623 KB
Über den Autor
Mark Walker is 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 Technology and on the Board of Directors of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies.
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