Sunday 18 December 2022

Happiness: Emotion, Mood, or Character Trait? (London, January 2023)



On 5th and 6th January 2023, a workshop hosted by Birkbeck University and organised by Alex Grzankowski will explore the nature of happiness (book here). My talk will focus on whether we can be delusional and happy at the same time.

Here is the full (provisional) programme:

January 5th 

  • Lisa Bortolotti (Birmingham) — Can we be delusional and happy?
  • Jonathan Mitchell (Cardiff) — Affective experiences of higher values
  • Mark Textor (KCL) and Alex Grzankowski (Birkbeck) — Happiness is a mood

January 6th

  • MM McCabe (KCL) — Choosing lives
  • Dan Haybron (Saint Louis University) — Happiness and human agency
  • Luca Barlassina and Max Hayward (Sheffield) — Affect and satisfaction: from the folk concept of happiness to happiness (and back)
  • Christine Vitrano (CUNY Brooklyn) — A life well lived: happiness and goodness