Dr Dan Weijers
Senior Lecturer, Convenor (Philosophy), Undergraduate Advisor (Philosophy)
Qualifications: PhD Philosophy
Personal Website: http://danweijers.com
About Dan
Office Hours: By appointment.
Profile:
Born in England, I have lived most of my life in New Zealand. Before taking up a lectureship at University of Waikato in 2016, I was an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at California State University, Sacramento for two years. Prior to my experience in California, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Philosophy Department at Victoria University of Wellington (VUW). I have honours degrees in marketing and philosophy from VUW, as well as an MA and a PhD in philosophy, also from VUW. I currently live near Hamilton in New Zealand with my wife Linda, and our children Eli and Asher.
Papers Taught
Research Supervised
Lorenzo Buscicchi (PHD): Happiness and the state (Chief supervisor)
Kim Southey (PhD): Re-presenting Maori and Indigenous conceptualisations of ‘being’: Challenging notions of mental illness (On the supervisory panel)
Paul Hubble (PhD): We are what we make (On the supervisory panel)
Research Interests
Research Specialties:
- Normative ethics (especially hedonism, wellbeing, and experimental normative ethics)
- Applied ethics (especially the ethics of prediction markets)
- Interdisciplinary happiness/wellbeing research (especially wellbeing and public policy, philosophy of happiness science, and conceptions of happiness)
Other Areas of Interest:
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.
Recent Publications
Weijers, D. (2020). Teaching well-being/quality of life from a philosophical perspective. In G. Tonon (Ed.), Teaching Quality of Life in Different Domains (Vol. 79, pp. 15-42). Switzerland: Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-21551-4_2
Buscicchi, L., & Weijers, D. (2019). The paradox of happiness: the more you chase it the more elusive it becomes. In J. Watson (Ed.), The Conversation Yearbook 2019: 50 standout articles from Australia’s top thinkers. Melbourne University Press.
Joshanloo, M., & Weijers, D. (2019). A two-dimensional conceptual framework for understanding mental well-being. PLoS ONE, 14(3), 1-20. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0214045 Open Access version: https://hdl.handle.net/10289/12671
Joshanloo, M., & Weijers, D. (2019). Islamic perspectives on wellbeing. In L. Lambert, & N. Pasha-Zaidi (Eds.), Positive Psychology in the Middle East/North Africa (pp. 237-256). Springer.
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Keywords
Philosophy; Psychology; Social Policy
Normative ethics (especially hedonism, wellbeing, and experimental normative ethics). Applied ethics (especially the ethics of prediction markets). Interdisciplinary happiness/wellbeing research (especially wellbeing and public policy, philosophy of happiness science, and conceptions of happiness)
Contact Details
| Name | Extn. | Username | Room | Department | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weijers, Dr Dan | 8570 | dweijers | J.3.10 | Philosophy Programme |
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