{"id":8342,"date":"2012-06-05T06:39:50","date_gmt":"2012-06-05T13:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/?p=8342"},"modified":"2012-06-05T06:39:50","modified_gmt":"2012-06-05T13:39:50","slug":"what-defines-happiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/05\/what-defines-happiness\/","title":{"rendered":"What Defines Happiness?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A little experimental philosophy, YouTube style. (Via <a href=\"http:\/\/leiterreports.typepad.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/the-happiness-experiment.html\">Brian Leiter<\/a>).<\/p>\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" title=\"Happiness Experiment (Part 1 of 5)\" style=\"width:640px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_SPkcOBEuUD0\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"><div><meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/SPkcOBEuUD0\/hqdefault.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SPkcOBEuUD0\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT1M32S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2012-05-28T01:00:06Z\" \/><\/div><div id=\"lyte_SPkcOBEuUD0\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/SPkcOBEuUD0\/hqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\" itemprop=\"name\">Happiness Experiment (Part 1 of 5)<\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/SPkcOBEuUD0\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/SPkcOBEuUD0\/0.jpg\" alt=\"Happiness Experiment (Part 1 of 5)\" width=\"640\" height=\"340\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Have you ever wondered if party rockers are truly happy? A recent study on the subject yielded results that might surprise you. -- Video by: Ben Coonley Cast: Laurie Santos (Narrator), Sarah Hailey (Maria), Justine Kolata (Maria&#039;s friend) Adapted from a study titled &quot;The Ordinary Concept of Happiness (and others like it)&quot; by Jonathan Phillips, Luke Misenheimer, and Joshua Knobe Source: http:\/\/pantheon.yale.edu\/~jp677\/LoveandHappiness.pdf The study illustrated in this video is just one example of a new movement called Experimental Philosophy (or &quot;x-phi&quot; for short). Experimental philosophers go after philosophical questions by taking the unusual approach of getting up out of their armchairs and going out to the streets to conduct empirical studies. If you want to learn more about experimental philosophy, here&#039;s one place to start: http:\/\/pantheon.yale.edu\/~jk762\/ExperimentalPhilosophy.html\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:640px;margin:5px;\"><\/div><\/p>\n<p>Watch to participate\/learn.  The unexamined life is not worth living.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little experimental philosophy, YouTube style. (Via Brian Leiter). Watch to participate\/learn. The unexamined life is not worth living.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}