Journal of Happiness Studies ( IF 3.1 ) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 , DOI: 10.1007/s10902-024-00763-6 James L. D. Brown , Sophie Potter
This paper examines the integration and unification of the philosophy and psychology of well-being. For the most part, these disciplines investigate well-being without reference to each other. In recent years, however, with the maturing of each discipline, there have been a growing number of calls to integrate the two. While such calls are welcome, what it means to integrate well-being philosophy and psychology can vary greatly depending on one’s theoretical and practical ends. The aim of this paper is to provide a novel conceptual framework for thinking about integrating well-being philosophy and psychology that systematically categorizes different kinds of integration projects. We divide existing attempts in the literature into three broad categories according to the perspective from which the integration takes place: (1) top-down meta-theoretical unification; (2) psychological integration within philosophy; and (3) philosophical integration within psychology. These categories are then broken down into various further subcategories. Our aim in providing this framework is both to facilitate the assessment and comparison of existing integration attempts and to provide a roadmap for future integration attempts. For each category, we discuss one or two representative examples of the approaches. By doing so, we hope to generate interest in the wide variety of existing integration projects, as well as to generate discussion concerning the benefits and pitfalls of different approaches.
中文翻译:
幸福哲学与心理学的整合:固执己见的概述
本文探讨了幸福哲学和心理学的整合和统一。在大多数情况下,这些学科在不相互参考的情况下研究幸福感。然而,近年来,随着各个学科的日趋成熟,越来越多的人呼吁将两者整合起来。虽然这样的呼吁是受欢迎的,但将幸福哲学和心理学结合起来的意义可能会因一个人的理论和实践目的而有很大差异。本文的目的是为思考整合幸福哲学和心理学提供一个新颖的概念框架,系统地对不同类型的整合项目进行分类。根据整合发生的角度,我们将文献中现有的尝试分为三大类:(1)自上而下的元理论统一; (2)哲学中的心理整合; (3)心理学中的哲学整合。然后,这些类别又进一步细分为各种子类别。我们提供这个框架的目的是为了促进现有集成尝试的评估和比较,并为未来的集成尝试提供路线图。对于每个类别,我们讨论一两个有代表性的方法示例。通过这样做,我们希望引起人们对各种现有集成项目的兴趣,并就不同方法的优点和缺陷进行讨论。