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AnnouncementsAttention Wellbeing Researchers!The International Journal of Wellbeing (IJW) is building up to launch and we are looking for peer reviewers and contributors. The IJW is an interdisciplinary academic journal that publishes research on wellbeing (broadly construed). You can find out more about the journal here. We Need You for the International Wellbeing Survey! The International Wellbeing Survey is the largest longitudinal survey on wellbeing. We need both philosophers and non-philosophers to take part. For more information please click here (if you are a philosopher) or here (if you are are not a philosopher). Latest News26 August 2010:I have been invited to talk about 'The Problem with Happiness' to the Cafe Scientifique audience from 6:00-7:30pm at Wholly Bagels in Lower Hutt on the 30 September. 17 August 2010: My Book review of Derek Bok's The Politics of Happiness: What Government Can Learn from the New Research on Well-Being has been published in Metapsychology Online today. Link 26 July 2010: I have accepted an invitation to serve as a member of the Editorial Review Board for the International Journal of Technoethics, a quarterly journal which began publication in 2010. Link More News: See all the news from this website at the News Archive. Link |
Biographical InformationProfile:I have recently changed my name from Dan Turton to Dan Weijers. I am a PhD candidate and assistant lecturer in the Philosophy Department at Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand). My primary supervisor is Nick Agar and my secondary supervisor is Ramon Das. Research Interests: Mainly interdisciplinary research on wellbeing. Also a wide variety of topics in analytic philosophy, notably including: Wellbeing, Hedonism, Happiness, Moral Psychology, Philosophy of Psychology, Neuroethics, Bioethics, Normative Ethics, Applied Ethics, Business Ethics, Political Philosophy, and Metaphysics Current Academic Roles:
My PhD (entitled Happiness, It's Meaning, Measurement and Moral Importance) examines various topics at the intersection of happiness and philosophy. Some chapters are purely theoretical but many are interdisciplinary, drawing on insights from neuroscience, psychology and other disciplines. A chapter outline follows:
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