Meliorism (How to Make Things Better)
Happy Brain15 Aug 2021

Meliorism (How to Make Things Better)

There is an interesting philosophy about how to make things better called Meliorism. Yup. It just might...make your brain happy.

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  • Work Mentioned:
  • Pawelski, J. O. (2006, March). Mitigation and construction: Toward a balanced meliorism. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy. San Antonio, TX.
  • (Very Academic) Kahneman, D., & Tversky, A. (1979). Prospect theory: An analysis of decision under risk. Econometrica, 47, 263-291.
  • (Lay person-ish) Kahneman, D. (2011). Thinking, fast and slow. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
  • (PERMA) Seligman, Martin E. P. Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life. New York: Vintage Books, 2006

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