This paper provides a philosophical assessment of leading theory-based, evidence-based and coherentist approaches to the definition and the measurement of well-being. It then builds on this assessment to articulate a reformed division of labor for the science of well-being and argues that this reformed division of labor can improve on the proffered approaches by combining the most plausible tenets of theory-based approaches with the most plausible tenets of coherentist approaches. This result does not per se exclude the possibility that theory-based and coherentist approaches may be independently improved or amended in the years to come. Still, together with the challenges that affect these approaches, it strengthens the case for combining the most plausible tenets of those approaches.

本文提供了对基于理论、基于证据和连贯的方法来定义和衡量幸福感的哲学评估。然后，它在此评估的基础上为幸福科学阐明了改革后的分工，并认为这种改革后的分工可以通过将基于理论的方法中最合理的原则与最合理的原则相结合来改进所提供的方法的连贯主义方法。这一结果本身并不排除基于理论和连贯主义的方法可能在未来几年内独立改进或修正的可能性。尽管如此，与影响这些方法的挑战一起，它加强了将这些方法中最合理的原则结合起来的理由。