In Defense of Happiness: Presidential Address to the Florida Philosophical Association.

Florida Philosophical Review 5 (1):1-15 (2005)
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In this address, I defend happiness as a disposition conducive to, or at least compatible with, a view of the world that is both cognitively and politically valuable, that is, both conducive to truth and ethically appropriate.

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