Interesting CHE interview about a course taught by philosopher Bernard Reginster (Brown) and one of his colleagues in psychology. As Professor Reginster aptly says:
On the one hand, the empirical investigation of a topic like happiness is only going to be as good as the initial conceptualization that frames the hypothesis guiding the inquiry. If you ask the wrong questions, the answers you get are not going to be very helpful. On the other hand, if the hypothesis your initial conceptualization supplied isn’t confirmed by empirical inquiries, then your initial conceptualization probably missed something.
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