STEM Ed Announcement: March 1st Distinguished Faculty Lecture, Fred Feldman

["Mort Sternheim" <mort@k12s.phast.umass.edu>]

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 The campus community is invited to attend the third 2010-2011
 Distinguished Faculty Lecture on Tuesday, March 1, at 4 pm in the
 Massachusetts Room, located on the third floor of the Mullins Center.
 Professor Fred Feldman of the Department of Philosophy will present
 "What Is This Thing Called Happiness?" This lecture is free and open 
 to the public and a reception will immediately follow the talk.  
 Professor Feldman will receive the Chancellor's Medal, the highest honor 
 bestowed by the campus.
  
 Economists, sociologists, psychologists, and others frequently report
 excitingly on their empirical research on happiness yet they seem to
 come to wildly different conclusions about what makes us happy and 
 when we are happiest. Drawing on his latest book, Professor Feldman will
 describe recent popular research methodologies, argue that much
 empirical research focuses on things that do not deserve to be called
 happiness, and make a case that defining happiness is a job for 
 philosophy.
  
 Live web streaming of this Distinguished Faculty Lecture will be
 available at http://www.umass.edu/umhome/facultylectures/ beginning at 4pm on March 1st.
 
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