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Dan Haybron

Daniel M. Haybron is an American philosopher and the Theodore R. Vitali C.P. Professor of Philosophy at Saint Louis University. He is known for his works on ethics and moral psychology.

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Dan Haybron
Education
EducationRutgers University (PhD)
Philosophical work
Era21st-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
InstitutionsSaint Louis University
Main interests
ethics, moral psychology
Websitehttps://www.danhaybron.com/

Daniel M. Haybron is an American philosopher and the Theodore R. Vitali C.P. Professor of Philosophy at Saint Louis University. He is known for his works on ethics and moral psychology.1

Books

  • Against Happiness. Columbia University Press, 2023. Coauthored with Owen Flanagan, Joseph E. LeDoux, Bobby Bingle, Batja Mesquita, Michele Moody-Adams, Songyao Ren, Anna Sun, and Yolonda Y. Wilson. With responses from critics Jennifer Frey, Hazel Rose Markus, Jeffrey D. Sachs, and Jeanne Tsai.
  • Happiness: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, 20132
  • The Pursuit of Unhappiness: The Elusive Psychology of Well-Being. Oxford University Press, 200834
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References

  1. "Dan Haybron". Saint Louis University.
  2. Wong, Paul T. P. (30 December 2014). "From attunement to a meaning-centred good life: Book Review of Daniel Haybron's Happiness: A very short introduction". International Journal of Wellbeing. 4 (2): 100–105. doi:10.5502/ijw.v4i2.5.
  3. "The Pursuit of Unhappiness: The Elusive Psychology of Well-Being". NDPR.
  4. Tabensky, Pedro Alexis (December 2010). "The Pursuit of Unhappiness: The Elusive Psychology of Well-Being". Australasian Journal of Philosophy. 88 (4): 740–743. doi:10.1080/00048400903521041. ISSN 0004-8402.
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