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How Well Can We Measure Well-Being?

Lu-Lerner, Lily X
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1589813816828266

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2020, BA, Oberlin College, Philosophy.
I will define the meaning of subjective well-being that I believe is the most intrinsic normative good, explain why improving the subjective well-being of sentient individuals ought to be the highest ethical priority, and provide reasons for why finding a way to measure subjective well-being would essentially benefit decision-makers and grassroots altruists. Subjective well-being is a dauntingly nebulous property to attempt to measure with precision, but I will comment on the progress that philosophers and social scientists have made in this field. Although (1) there is no set of well-being criteria that is applicable to every sentient individual (including non-human animals) and (2) most sentient individuals are unable to communicate with us about their level of subjective well-being use or relevant experiential factors, we may yet be able to develop an intrapersonally and interpersonally cardinal method to measure subjective well-being.
Todd Ganson (Advisor)
53 p.
Ethics; Philosophy; Philosophy of Science; Psychology; Welfare
Philosophy; Subjective; Well-being; Subjective well-being; Measuring subjective well-being; Measure subjective well-being; Ethics; Moral philosophy; Morality; Global priorities; Global priorities research; Happiness; Measuring happiness

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  • Lu-Lerner, L. X. (2020). How Well Can We Measure Well-Being? [Undergraduate thesis, Oberlin College]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1589813816828266

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Lu-Lerner, Lily. How Well Can We Measure Well-Being? 2020. Oberlin College, Undergraduate thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1589813816828266.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Lu-Lerner, Lily. "How Well Can We Measure Well-Being?" Undergraduate thesis, Oberlin College, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1589813816828266

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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