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International Wellbeing and Public Policy ConferenceThe International Journal of Wellbeing is planning its third major conference on wellbeing and public policy. Location and date to be confirmed.
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Latest News
26 May 2017: I presented "Does increasing national happiness require decreasing freedom or determining social values?" at the symposium "Quality of life research: An interdisciplinary discussion" held at Auckland University of Technology. See the slides here.12 May 2017: I presented
"Watch the James Dean and Duration Neglect hypotheses crash and burn: Lessons for experimenters" at the Empirical Philosophy Workshop at Victoria University of Wellington. See the slides here.
30 April 2017: The book Wellbeing, Recovery and Mental Health is now available. I have a chapter on Wellbeing Policy with Aaron Jarden in the edited volume. See it here.
12 April 2017: I presented my keynote address, "What is good for you? The philosophy of well-being", at the "Faculty panel event with guest Dan Weijers", at California State University Sacramento.
11 April 2017: I presented "Does the future matter more for wellbeing than the past? Experimental evidence and the importance of perspective" to the CSUS Philosophy Club at California State University Sacramento. See the slides here.
27 March 2017: The open access book "Open: The Philosophy and Practices that are Revolutionizing Education and Science" has been been published. I have a chapter in it, co-authored with Aaron Jarden, about the International Journal of Wellbeing and issues in open access scientific publishing practices. Read the book here.
26 March 2017: I reached 200 citations on Google Scholar! See my profile here.
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Summary Academic Information
Profile:I am a permanent Lecturer (equivalent to Assistant Professor) in the philosophy department at the University of Waikato, in New Zealand. Previously, I was an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at California State University, Sacramento, and a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Philosophy Department at Victoria University of Wellington. I was born in England, lived in New Zealand for 20 years, California for 2 years, and now live in Hamilton, New Zealand with my wife, Linda, and two sons, Eli and Asher.
Research Specialties:
- Normative ethics (especially
hedonism, wellbeing, and experimental normative
ethics)
- Applied ethics (especially the ethics of prediction markets; e.g. ipredict)
- Interdisciplinary happiness/wellbeing research (especially wellbeing and public policy, philosophy of happiness science, and conceptions of happiness)
Political Philosophy, Public Policy, Experimental Philosophy, Climate Justice, Moral Psychology, Philosophy of Psychology, Bioethics, Neuroethics, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Economics, Philosophy of Law, Business Ethics, Cross-Cultural Psychology, Social Psychology, Behavioral Economics, and The Meaning of Life.
Current Academic Roles:
- Founding co-editor of the International Journal of Wellbeing. Link
- Editorial advisory board member for the
Journal of Philosophy of Emotion
- Editorial review board member for the International Journal
of Technoethics
- Peer reviewer for Australasian
Journal of Philosophy, 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 the American
Philosophical Association, Journal of Value
Inquiry, Philosophical Frontiers,
Philosophical Psychology, Philosophical
Studies, Politics, Philosophy &
Economics, Quality of Life Research,
and Res Philosophica.
- Member of the Expert Group for the Global Happiness Organization. Link
- Examining what we value about our lives when we really think about it. An experimental philosophy book project with Peter Unger.
- Looking into getting funding for a large longitudinal study of student wellbeing and success.
- 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)
- An empirical paper comparing the happiness of philosophers to non-philosophers (it doesn't look good for philosophers!) with Matthew McDonald and Aaron Jarden
- An edited book and a chapter on wellbeing and public policy
My PhD (entitled Hedonism and Happiness in Theory and Practice) examines various topics at the intersection of happiness and philosophy. Many chapters are interdisciplinary, drawing on insights from psychology, economics and other disciplines.
Selected Recent and Forthcoming Publications (2016-):
- Weijers, Dan (forthcoming-2017). Prediction Markets, in Robert W. Kolb (ed.), The SAGE Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society: 2nd edition. Sage. 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
- Weijers, Dan & Keyser, Vadim (2016). The Varieties and Dynamics of Moral Repugnance: Prediction Markets and Betting on Matters of Life and Death, The Humanities and Technology Review, 35: 91-129. The free official version.
- Weijers, Dan & Mukherjee, Udayan (2016).
Living Standards, Wellbeing, and Public Policy, The
New Zealand Treasury. The
free official version.
- Joshanloo, Mohsen &
Weijers, Dan (2016). Religiosity Moderates
the Relationship between Income Inequality
and Life Satisfaction across the Globe, Social
Indicators Research, 128(2):
731-750. Last
author version. The
official version
- Weijers, Dan (2016). Prediction Markets as an Alternative to One More Spy, in Jai Galliott & Warren Reed (eds.), Ethics and the Future of Spying: Technology, Intelligence Collection and National Security, Routledge, pp. 80-92. Last author version. Publisher's site.
- Joshanloo, Mohsen & Weijers, Dan (2016). Religiosity Reduces the Negative Influence of Injustice on Subjective Well-being: A Study in 121 Nations, Applied Research in Quality of Life, 11(2): 601-612. Last author version. The official version.
- See the full list here
Contact
Email:
danweijers[at]gmail[dot]com
Phone:
+1 (916) 278-7289
Address:
Dan Weijers
Philosophy Department,
Sacramento State University Mendocino Hall 3018,
6000 J Street,
Sacramento,
CA 95819-6033
United States
Why Contact Me?
Of particular interest to me is making contact with other wellbeing researchers. Especially for the following reasons:
- If you are interested in being a peer reviewer for or potential contributor to the International Journal of Wellbeing
- If you are an editor of a philosophy or wellbeing-related project looking for a contributor
- If you are interested in collaborating on theoretical, interdisciplinary, empirical, or experimental wellbeing research
- If you are looking for an expert on happiness and wellbeing to make a comment about policies or events
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email: danweijers[at]gmail[dot]com
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