S3 Ep 3 - Anna Alexandrova on 'Philosophy of Well-Being Science‪'‬ The HPS Podcast - Conversations from History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science

Today's episode features Professor Anna Alexandrova from the University of Cambridge discussing a field she has pioneered - the Philosophy of Well-Being Science.As Anna points out, well-being and happiness are now established phenomena for scientific research, particularly in the disciplines of psychology and economics. But does current scientific research produce knowledge that is properly about well-being? What kind of well-being? Should the goal be a single concept and single theory of wel...