| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,340,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥540,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This research aimed at bridging philosophical studies on happiness and its measurement with corresponding empirical works. Specifically, this research proposed to pragmatically revise the question, what happiness in the sense of well-being, i.e., what makes one’s life better, is. Partly depending on the results of empirical sciences, such as psychology and neuroscience, this study examined what constitutes well-being, and defended a response-dependent theory, the view that takes one’s well-being to consist in his ex post facto liking. And it rebutted an objection to response-dependent theories, i.e., the criticism that these theories underestimate the level of one’s well-being when his relevant mental states have been adapted to dire conditions. This study further concluded that, for happiness to be real in such a way as to be comparable and measurable, we need to weaken assumptions about good for an individual, reflecting on what in the world can fulfill the roles of well-being.
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