Ill-Being: Philosophical Perspectives

Mauro Rossi, Professor, Department of Philosophy, Université du Québec à Montréal,Christine Tappolet, Full Professor, Department of Philosophy, Université de Montréal

Mauro Rossi is a Full Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Quebec in Montreal. His research interests are in value theory, prudential psychology, and the philosophy of economics. He has published articles in journals such as the Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Economics and Philosophy, Ergo, Synthese and Utilitas. With Christine Tappolet, he is working on a monograph provisionally entitled Happiness: An Affective Theory.

Christine Tappolet is a Full Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Montreal. Her research interests lie mainly in metaethics, moral psychology, and emotion theory. She has edited a number of volumes, including, with Sarah Stroud, Weakness of Will and Practical Irrationality (OUP, 2003). Tappolet is also the author of several books, including Emotions, Values, and Agency (OUP, 2016) and Philosophy of Emotions: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge, 2023). With Mauro Rossi, she is currently working on a monograph on well-being.

Introduction, Mauro Rossi and Christine Tappolet1. The Significance of Ill-Being, Raffaele Rodogno2. Combining Good and Bad, Christopher Frugé3. Well-Being, Ill-Being, and Everything in Between: What Does It Mean for Well-Being to Come in Degrees?, Willem van der Deijl4. What Should the Desire Theorist Say About Ill-Being?, Anthony Kelley5. Adaptive Values and Subjective Ill-Being, Qiannan Li and Valerie Tiberius6. Pleasure and Pain in Value-Fulfilment Theories of Well-Being and Ill-Being, Jason R. Raibley7. Explaining Emotional Pain with Affective Perspectives, Jennifer Hawkins8. Why Is the Boring Bad?, Lorraine L. Besser9. Ill-Being and Fitting Unhappiness, Mauro Rossi and Christine Tappolet10. Well-Being and the Problem of Suffering, Daniel M. Haybron11. Telic Perfectionism and the Badness of Pain, Antti Kauppinen12. Anti-Achievement, Eric Mathison13. Failure, Gwen Bradford14. Ill-Being as Dissonance, Teresa Bruno-Niño and Hasko von Kriegstein15. Health and the Minimally Good Life-What Is Really Necessary to Avoid Ill-Being and (Otherwise) Fare Well Enough, Nicole Hassoun