Welfare, happiness, and ethics

By Bruce W. Brower, L. Sumner. 1998

Subfields: Natural Language Processing, Philosophy

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Artificial Intelligence, Values, and Alignment (2020, background): “Though interest, understood in this way, is not amenable to direct scientific observation, we are able to collect data about the things that people believe constitute or contribute to their well-being, as well as information about the kinds of things that make a human life go well (Sumner 1996; Vail”
Economic Migration and Happiness: Comparing Immigrants’ and Natives’ Happiness Gains From Income (2011, background): “migration (Author), and happiness is arguably a compelling way of specifying “benefit” (Sumner 1996).”
Happiness, inspiration and the fully functioning person: Separating hedonic and eudaimonic well-being in the workplace (2012, background): “HWB may straightforwardly be connected to the idea that all there is to a good life is the presence of pleasure and the absence of pain (e.g. Brandt, 1967; Feldman, 2004; Gosling, 1998; Kenny & Kenny, 2006; Sumner, 1996; Tännsjö, 2007; Vittersø, 2009; Watson, 1895).”
Monism and Pluralism about Value (2015, background): “A similar and possibly even equivalent monistic theory claims that welfare is constituted by happiness (Sumner 1996; Feldman 2010).”
The Capability Approach: Its Development, Critiques and Recent Advances (2005, background): “Of course the CA may turn out to be just as susceptible as utility to the problem of adaptive preferences and cultural indoctrination (Nussbaum, 1988, p.175; Sumner, 1996, pp.60-68).”
Measuring Subjective Wellbeing for Public Policy: Recommendations on Measures (2011, background): “There are three accounts of wellbeing (Parfit, 1984; Sumner, 1996) that meet the three conditions and that could, in principle, apply at each of the monitoring, informing and appraising levels:”
Is Sen's Capability Approach an Adequate Basis for Considering Human Development? (2002, background): “The prioritization in Sen’s CA of capability over functionings can, however, 22 See for example Sen (2000, pp. 3—4, 24, 29).”
The Satisfaction With Life Scale and the emerging construct of life satisfaction (2008, background): “Following philosophers such as Sumner (1996), some contemporary scholars see the essence of SWB as involving reflective, global judgments of life overall (Veenhoven, 1984).”