Owen Flanagan on Happiness

Nice video for a Saturday morning.

Owen Flanagan - Preview of the full interview.

Happiness

Dr. Owen Flanagan is the James B. Duke Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Neurobiology at Duke University. He has done work in philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of social science, ethics, contemporary ethical theory, moral psychology, as well as Buddhist and Hindu conceptions of the self.

Flanagan has written extensively on consciousness and has been realistic about the difficulty of consciousness as a scientific and philosophical problem, but optimistic about the chance of solving the problem. One of the problems in a study of consciousness is the hidden way in which conscious states are dependent on brain states. Flanagan has proposed that there is a "natural method" to go about understanding consciousness that involves creating a science of mind

To learn more about Owen's work, go to: www.fbs.duke.edu

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