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• Normative ethics (especially hedonism, wellbeing, and experimental normative ethics)
  
• Applied ethics (especially the ethics of prediction markets; e.g. PredictIt)
• Interdisciplinary happiness/wellbeing research (especially wellbeing and public policy, philosophy of happiness science, and conceptions of happiness)

• Founding co-editor of the International Journal of Wellbeing. Link
• International editorial board member of Rowman & Littlefield's book series on "Behavioural Applied Ethics"
  
• Editorial advisory board member for the Journal of Philosophy of Emotion
  
• Editorial review board member for the International Journal of Technoethics
  
• Peer reviewer for Anxiety, Stress, & Coping, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Cambridge University Press, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Erasmus Journal of Philosophy and Economics, Ergo, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Ethics and Social Welfare, International Journal of Technoethics, International Journal of Wellbeing, Journal of Cultural Economics, Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, Journal of Social Philosophy, Journal of the American Philosophical Association, Journal of Value Inquiry, Methods in Psychology, Oxford University Press, Philosophical Frontiers, Philosophical Psychology, Philosophical Studies, Politics, Philosophy & Economics, Quality of Life Research, Res Philosophica, Springer, Sustainability, and Utilitas. 
  
• University of Waikato's representative in the New Zealand Association of Philosophers
  
• Member of the Expert Group for the Global Happiness Organization. Link
  
• Editor of the New Zealand Association of Philosophers Blog (currently under development). Link
• Founding director of the New Zealand Wellbeing Researchers Network (currently under development). Link
  

• Examining what we value about our lives when we really think about it. An experimental philosophy book project with Peter Unger
• Deconstructive Replication - an empirical method for evaluating the fitness for purpose of thought experiment-audience pairings
  
• Investigating famous 2-option moral thought experiments (starting with trolley problems) using experimental philosophy to assess what differences, if any, several-option versions of the scenarios make (in conjunction with Peter Unger and Justin Sytsma)
• Several papers on the deceived businessman and the experience machine (in defense of hedonism)
• The freebie problem - a structural problem present in many famous philosophical thought experiments
• A Cross-cultural and mixed methods investigation of conceptions of happiness and well-being with Mohsen Joshanloo
• An empirical paper comparing the happiness of philosophers to non-philosophers (it doesn't look good for philosophers!) with Matthew McDonald and Aaron Jarden

• Weijers, Dan (2021). Wellbeing and the four qualities of life. In A. C. Michalos (ed.), The Pope of Happiness: A Festschrift for Ruut Veenhoven. (pp. xxx-yyy). Springer. Publisher's site. Last author version.
• Weijers, Dan (2021). "Chapter 15. “Just wrong,” “disgusting,” “grotesque”: How to Deal with Public Rejection of New Potentially Life-saving Technologies", in Steff, R., Soare, S., & Burton, J. (eds.), Emerging Technologies and International Security: Machines, the State and War. Routledge, pp. 254-272. Publisher's site. Last author version.
  
• Weijers, Dan (2020). Teaching well-being/quality of life from a philosophical perspective, in Graciela Tonon (ed.), Teaching Quality of Life in Different Domains. Springer, pp. 15-42. Publisher's site. My chapter.
  
• Buscicchi, Lorenzo & Weijers, Dan (2019). The paradox of happiness: the more you chase it the more elusive it becomes, in John Watson (ed.), The Conversation Yearbook 2019: 50 standout articles from Australia’s top thinkers. Melbourne University Press, pp. 140-143. Publisher's site. Republishing of Buscicchi, Lorenzo & Weijers, Dan (2019). The Paradox of Happiness: The more you chase it the more elusive it becomes, The Conversation, 27 May. Link.
• Joshanloo, Mohsen & Weijers, Dan (2019). Islamic Perspectives on Wellbeing, in Louise Lambert & Nausheen Pasha-Zaidi (eds.), Positive Psychology in the GCC Nations (and beyond): An Introduction to Research, Policy, and Practice. Springer, pp. 237-256.
• Joshanloo, Mohsen, Weijers, Dan (2019) A two-dimensional conceptual framework for understanding mental well-being. PLoS ONE, 14(3): e0214045. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0214045
  
• Weijers, Dan & Morrison, Philip, S. (2018). Wellbeing and Public Policy: Can New Zealand be a Leading Light for the Wellbeing Approach?, Policy Quarterly, 14(4): 3-12. The free official version.
  
• Weijers, Dan (2018). Prediction Markets, in Robert W. Kolb (ed.), The SAGE Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society: 2nd edition. Sage, pp. 2716-2718. Last author version.
• Weijers, Dan & DiSilvestro, Russell (2017). The Morality of Experience Machines for Palliative and End of Life Care, in Mark Silcox (ed.), Experience Machines: The Philosophy of Virtual Worlds. Rowman & Littlefield, pp. 183-201. Last author version. Publisher's site.
• Weijers, Dan & Jarden, Aaron (2017). Wellbeing Policy: An Overview, in Mike Slade, Lindsay Oades & Aaron Jarden (eds.), Wellbeing, Recovery and Mental Health. Cambridge University Press, pp. 24-34. (This chapter reproduces some of the material from Weijers, Dan & Jarden, Aaron. The Science of Happiness for Policymakers: An Overview). Last author version. Publisher's site.
• Weijers, Dan & Jarden, Aaron (2017). The International Journal of Wellbeing: An Open Access Success Story, in Rajiv Jhangiani & Robert Biswas-Diener (eds.), Open: The Philosophy and Practices that are Revolutionizing Education and Science. Ubiquity Press, pp. 181-194. Last author version. Free official version of whole book.
• Michalos, Alex & Weijers, Dan (2017). Western Historical Traditions of Well-Being, in Richard Estes and Joseph Sirgy (eds.), The Pursuit of Human Well-Being: The Untold Global History, Springer, pp. 31-57. Last author version. Publisher's site
  
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