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Journal articles on the topic "Pleasure"

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Jaulin, Annick. "Aristote : le plaisir des differences." Chôra 17 (2019): 127–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/chora2019178.

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Given the necessary connection between pleasure and energeia, the value of an aristotelian pleasure depends on the value of its correlative activity. Since the absolute pleasures the philokalos takes in his virtuous activities might go hand in hand with pains, the definition of absolute pleasure cannot rely on the distinction between mixed pleasure (pleasure with pain) versus pure pleasure (pleasure without pain). So, how can we characterize the pleasures of the temperate man (sophron) ? My thesis is that the right way to define the pleasures of the temperate man is to describe them as pleasures derived from differences. A pleasure derived from differences is involved in the pleasure human beings get from the formal use of their senses. It then belongs to the kind of pleasure they take in knowing. This formal use of the senses helps understanding how the pleasures of the temperate man can be separated from the pleasures enjoyed by children and animals.
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Adamson, Peter. "MISKAWAYH ON PLEASURE." Arabic Sciences and Philosophy 25, no. 2 (July 31, 2015): 199–223. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0957423915000028.

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AbstractThis paper provides an analysis and translation of a previously edited, but otherwise unstudied work by Miskawayh (d. 1030) entitled On Pleasures and Pains (Fī al-Laḏḏāt wa-al-ālām). After a brief orientation regarding the Aristotelian account of pleasure in the Nicomachean Ethics, which is Miskawayh's main source, the theory of pleasure set out in On Pleasures and Pains is compared to the discussion of pleasure in Miskawayh's better known Refinement of Character (Tahḏīb al-aḫlāq). Despite considerable harmony between the two texts, their treatments of pleasure differ in that the Refinement accepts, whereas On Pleasures and Pains rejects, the “restoration” theory of pleasure of Plato's Timaeus.
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Hunter, J. F. M. "Pleasure." Dialogue 26, no. 3 (1987): 491–500. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0012217300047302.

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What is pleasure? Don't we all know? How could so many of us pursue it so eagerly otherwise? Or how could we so readily and confidently say whether this, that and the other are pleasures? Having one's back rubbed, dancing, listening to a Bach flute sonata and eating a cheese soufflé are pleasures, while having a cold, smelling rotten eggs and reading Hegel are not. We may not be able to define pleasure, but if we can readily say what is a pleasure and what is not, must we not know what it is, just as we know what a chair is if we can correctly identify chairs, distinguishing them from stools, benches and couches?
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Newark, Daniel A. "Desire and pleasure in choice." Rationality and Society 32, no. 2 (May 2020): 168–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1043463120921254.

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This article considers how desire leads to pleasure through choice. A typical assumption of rational choice models is that decision makers experience pleasure or utility primarily when their desires are satisfied by decision outcomes. This article proposes that, in addition to desire yielding pleasure through its satisfaction, desiring can also yield pleasure directly during choice. Beyond the pleasures of getting what we want, there may be pleasures in the wanting. In particular, four psychological and behavioral mechanisms through which desire can yield pleasure during choosing are identified: imagining the desired object, learning about the desired object, constructing one’s self while clarifying the desired object, and pursuing the desired object. This said, although desire may, through these mechanisms, offer considerable immediate pleasure, this article posits that indulging these pleasures tends to foster subsequent disappointment with decision outcomes. The article concludes by considering the implications for decision making of this expanded view of desire’s relationship to pleasure in choice.
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Classen, Albrecht. "Pleasure in the Middle Ages, ed. Naama Cohen-Hanegbi and Piroska Nagy. International Medieval Research, 24. Turnhout: Brepols, 2018, xxiii, 383 pp., 10 b/w ill." Mediaevistik 31, no. 1 (January 1, 2018): 309–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.3726/med012018_309.

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The term ‘pleasure’ has many different meanings, and can be understood both in physical, emotional terms and in religious, or philosophical contexts. Pleasure pertains both to the body and to the spirit, so it turns out to be a very malleable concept which cannot be easily examined in a cultural-historical framework. The contributors to the present volume, however, who originally presented their studies orally at the 2013 International Medieval Congress at Leeds, pursue, as the two editors formulate it themselves, very diverse approaches, depending on their individual research discipline. However, pleasure is regularly associated with emotions, whether from a historical, theological, philosophical, art-historical (only one study), or literary (practically left out) perspective. Of course, this opens another Pandora’s box since ‘emotions’ represent a vast range of aspects in human life that are commonly not easy to identify or to determine in a critical fashion. Cohen-Hanegbi (Tel Aviv University) and Nagy (Université du Quebec à Montréal) offer the approximate definition of pleasure as being “an affect sustained by the interaction between physical and sensory knowledge, between cultural and social mores, and between religious thought and ethics” (xix). It might be difficult to grasp what they really mean by this, especially because they consider such features as “pleasured bodies, didactic pleasures, and pleasure in God” (ibid.), which again leaves us groping for straws. However, we are assured at the end of the introduction that all contributors, despite vast differences in their methodologies and materials, “attempt to define and analyze pleasures, joys, enjoyments, and delights through the language and mindset of the source material” (xxii).
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Renaut, Olivier. "Le plaisir dans la cite platonicienne." Chôra 17 (2019): 17–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/chora2019173.

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This article aims at showing that the definition of pleasure in Plato’s dialogues cannot be separated from a political educational program and an anthropology that consider pleasure as the main vehicle towards virtue. The political use of pleasure is as important as its definition, insofar as its manifestation and content are the prerogatives of the legislator. All pleasures are politically meaningful in the Republic and in the Laws, and among them especially the triad hunger, thirst and sex ; in making pleasures a “public” issue, as pleasures are object of surveillance and political control, Plato gives several means in order to shape the way pleasures are felt in the city, and in order to make the community of pleasure and pain a fundamental role in unifying the city under the reason’s commands.
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Carone, Gabriela Roxana. "Hedonism and the Pleasureless Life in Plato's Philebus." Phronesis 45, no. 4 (2000): 257–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156852800510225.

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AbstractThis paper re-evaluates the role that Plato confers to pleasure in the Philebus. According to leading interpretations, Plato there downplays the role of pleasure, or indeed rejects hedonism altogether. Thus, scholars such as D. Frede have taken the "mixed life" of pleasure and intelligence initially submitted in the Philebus to be conceded by Socrates only as a remedial good, second to a life of neutral condition, where one would experience no pleasure and pain. Even more strongly, scholars such as Irwin have seen the Philebus' arguments against false pleasures as an actual attack on hedonism, showing in Irwin's words "why maximization of pleasure cannot be a reasonable policy for the best life." Against these claims, I argue that the mixed life of pleasure and intelligence is presented in the Philebus as a rst best and not just as a second best for humans, and that, accordingly, Socrates proposes to incorporate rather than reject pleasure as one of the intrinsically desirable aspects of the happy life. Thus, I offer alternative readings of controversial passages that have given rise to the prevalent interpretation criticized here, and advance positive evidence that at least some pleasures are seen by Plato as inherently good. In addition, I demonstrate that Plato's arguments against false pleasures do not by themselves constitute an attack on hedonism. Rather, they can be seen as a strategy to show the hedonist that, in order to be a maximal, or even a consistent, hedonist, he should go for true, and not fake pleasures, if after all pleasure is the object of his pursuit. But, since this cannot be achieved without intelligence, then the mixed life of pleasure and intelligence is to be accepted even by hedonist themselves.
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Alwood, Andrew H. "How Pleasures Make Life Better." KRITERION – Journal of Philosophy 31, no. 1 (January 1, 2017): 1–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/krt-2017-310102.

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Abstract In this paper, I argue that Phenomenalists about pleasure can concede a key claim, Heterogeneity, commonly used to object to their theory. They also can then vindicate the aspirations of J. S. Mill's doctrine of higher pleasures, while grounding their value claims in a naturalistic metaethics. But once Phenomenalists concede Heterogeneity they can no longer consistently endorse Hedonism as the correct theory of wellbeing, since they implicitly commit to recognizing distinct kinds of pleasure that are independently good-making. I also explore further issues that arise for a Pluralist theory of pleasure: How could there be distinct kinds of pleasure? How can pleasures be measured? Is it possible for some pleasures to be superior in kind to others? What unifies the category of pleasant experiences? Is the value of pleasant experiences natural or non-natural?
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Cooke, Brandon. "‘Guilty’ pleasures are often worthwhile pleasures." Journal of Scandinavian Cinema 9, no. 1 (March 1, 2019): 105–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/jsca.9.1.105_1.

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A guilty pleasure is something that affords pleasure while being held in low regard. Since there are more opportunities to experience worthwhile pleasures than one can experience in a finite life, it would be better to avoid guilty pleasures. Worse still, many guilty pleasures are thought to be corrupting in some way. In fact, many so-called guilty pleasures can contribute to a good life, because they are sources of pleasure and because they do not actually merit guilt. Taking pornography as a case study, I argue that in the absence of compelling evidence for its harmfulness, pornography can contribute to well-being by promoting autonomy, social recognition, knowledge and flourishing personal relationships. The case of pornography demonstrates an argumentative strategy for defending many so-called guilty pleasures as worthwhile elements of a flourishing life.
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HEATHWOOD, CHRIS. "Unconscious Pleasures and Attitudinal Theories of Pleasure." Utilitas 30, no. 2 (August 11, 2017): 219–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0953820817000188.

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This article responds to a new objection, due to Ben Bramble, against attitudinal theories of sensory pleasure and pain: the objection from unconscious pleasures and pains. According to the objection, attitudinal theories are unable to accommodate the fact that sometimes we experience pleasures and pains of which we are, at the time, unaware. In response, I distinguish two kinds of unawareness and argue that the subjects in the examples that support the objection are unaware of their sensations in only a weak sense, and this weak sort of unawareness of a sensation does not preclude its being an object of one's attitudes.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Pleasure"

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Mooradian, Norman Arthur. "Pleasure and illusion : false pleasure in Plato's Philebus." Connect to resource, 1992. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view.cgi?acc%5Fnum=osu1265640050.

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Morita, Nicole. "Pondering pleasure." Connect to this title online, 2007. http://etd.lib.clemson.edu/documents/1181668163/.

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Grant, Laura Jane. "Pleasure Gardens." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/73680.

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This thesis is comprised of a series of paintings that study historical representations of styles, forms and symbols found in gardens. It is less a research project into the history, meaning, and rules of these different gardens throughout time and more of an appreciation, appropriation and reinvention in fantastical form. There is no attempt in these paintings to represent objects or things that exist in the physical world, but instead a desire to create a new fantasy world. The image of ‘garden as paradise’ has been part of our human mythos for a very long time. The image of ‘garden of eden’ appears in the old testament of the Bible. There was a similar early image of ‘garden as paradise’ in Zoroastrian beliefs in ancient ‘Persia’.
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Courtney, Claire. "The Pleasure Gap: Harnessing Pleasure to Increase Global Condom Use." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2014. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/354.

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The state of global health and wellbeing is threatened by the pervasive and dangerous decision to engage in unprotected sex. Only male or female condoms can prevent the spread of both sexually transmitted infections and unintended pregnancies. Despite this, condoms remain dangerously underused because of the perception that they diminish sexual pleasure. The pleasure gap in the design and promotion of condoms cripples sexual health outcomes. Acknowledging and harnessing the power of pleasure in sexual-decision making is key to increasing condom use.
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Jonmarker, Åsa. "Stockholm Pleasure Pier." Thesis, KTH, Arkitektur, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-96518.

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This project introduces the typology of the Pleasure Pier to Stockholm. The Pier starts at Ropsten, an area in the center of the municipality´s extensive plans for The Royal Seaport (or Norra Djurgårdsstaden). The project is a study of the pier typology, how to translate an old idea to give it relevance to Stockholm today, how a structure can be integrated in the intense traffic node that Ropsten will become, and how Stockholm´s abundance of water can become more accessible without diminishing its value.
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Race, Kane National Centre in HIV Social Research Faculty of Arts &amp Social Sciences UNSW. "Pleasure consuming medicine." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. School of Social Science and Policy, 2004. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/20473.

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Pleasure Consuming Medicine investigates the significance of the classification of drugs for conceptions of personhood in the context of consumer citizenship. It examines how drug discourses operate politically to sustain particular notions of personhood and organise bodies. As the normative conception of social life shifts to a discourse of consumer agency and active citizenship, it is argued, drugs come to describe the moral boundaries of a freedom configured around personal consumption. The thesis tracks the parallel rise of two discourses of drug mis/use from the 1970s - a discourse of 'drug abuse' and a discourse of 'patient compliance' - illustrating how these discourses bind personal agency to medical authority through a vocabulary of self-administration. It describes how illicit drugs are constructed as a sign and instance of excessive conformity to consumer culture, and how this excess is opportunistically scooped off and spectacularised to stage an intense but superficial battle between the amoral market and the moral state. Pleasure Consuming Medicine uses a theoretical frame developed from queer theory, corporeal feminism, governmentality studies and cultural studies to explore the political character of drug regimes, tracing some of the ramifications for sex, race, class, and citizenship. Then it turns to the field of gay men's HIV education to conceive some alternative and provisional vocabularies of safety. The thesis develops an argument on the exercise of power in consumer society, with the aim of contributing to cultural and critical understandings of consumption, embodiment, sex, health, and citizenship.
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Blackburn, Taylor. "The Pleasure Center." Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School, 2018. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/etd/686.

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Young, Suzie Sau Fong. "The horrors of pleasure and the pleasures of horror in David Cronenbergs's cinema /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p9961763.

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Reardon, Joanne. "Pleasure land and talking to the dead : a reflection on 'Pleasure land'." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.578241.

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Pleasure Land has a strong regional setting in the fairground of a seaside town North West England, a place where' carousel horses come to die'. A man who is supposed to be dead is found murdered. The detective investigating the murder, Tom Fairfax, is coming to terms with the death of his daughter and isn't really up to the job. A man on the edge, he's been given a second chance and doesn't want to blow it. Talking to the Dead This thesis will examine how I approached the writing of the crime novel Pleasure Land by using influences from both literary and crime fiction. Through reference to mythology and the structure of the hero’s journey I will explore how these influences have been helpful to me in finding a shape and framework for my crime novel and for the voice of its detective, Inspector Tom Fairfax. I will discuss how this has been explored by other crime writers - writers of classic crime noir as well as Contemporary European crime writers, and the influence their approach has had on my ownwork. I will consider some of the moral and philosophical questions raised by the writing of crime fiction, in particular how insistent the voices of the dead can be in the solving of a crime.
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Svensson, Johan. "Neural Correlates of Pleasure : A Review of the Neuroscientific Literature of Pleasure." Thesis, Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för biovetenskap, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-9890.

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Pleasure is part of hedonic well-being, with roots back to Epicurus 2000 years ago. With the new evolving neuroscientific methods of the late 20th and beginning of the 21st century, we are now able to study the biological components of pleasure. This thesis aims to review empirical studies on the neural correlates of pleasure, which can have important implications for well-being, and treatment of addiction and affective disorders. Recent studies have suggested that pleasure can be separated into coding and causing. Discoveries show that causing of pleasure is created in so called hedonic hot spots, areas of the brain that intensely creates pleasure in the shell of nucleus accumbens and in the ventral pallidum. Areas that codes pleasure on the other hand is represented into more cortical areas of the brain, including orbitofrontal cortex, anterior cingulate cortex and anterior insular cortex. There has been a growing understanding about how pleasure is represented in the brain, and a discussion on interpretations and limitations are provided followed by future research suggestions in the final section.
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Books on the topic "Pleasure"

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James, Eloisa. Pleasure For Pleasure. New York: HarperCollins, 2006.

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Sobrato, Jamie. Pleasure for pleasure. Toronto: Harlequin, 2003.

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Rhode Island. Bureau of Information., ed. Pleasures and pleasure spots in Rhode Island. Providence: Remington Press, 1987.

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Murray, John. Pleasure. Brampton, Cumbria: Panurge, 1996.

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Dickey, Eric Jerome. Pleasure. New York: Penguin Group USA, Inc., 2008.

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Dickey, Eric Jerome. Pleasure. New York, N.Y: Dutton, 2008.

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Dickey, Eric Jerome. Pleasure. Waterville, Me: Thorndike Press, 2008.

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A, Russell James, ed. Pleasure. Hove: Psychology Press, 2003.

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Frank, Jacquelyn. Pleasure. New York: Zebra Books/Kensington Pub., 2009.

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A, Russell James, ed. Pleasure. Hove: Psychology, 2003.

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Book chapters on the topic "Pleasure"

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McCloskey, Mary A. "Pleasure." In Kant’s Aesthetic, 18–23. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1987. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08796-9_3.

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Balderston, David C. "Pleasure." In Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion, 1777–80. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24348-7_200096.

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Destrée, Pierre. "Pleasure." In A Companion to Ancient Aesthetics, 472–85. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781119009795.ch31.

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Kozlowski, Desirée. "Pleasure." In Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences, 3951–52. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24612-3_544.

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Kozlowski, Desirée. "Pleasure." In Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences, 1–2. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_544-1.

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Hilmi, Angela. "Pleasure." In Agroecology, 87–90. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68489-5_5.

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Balderston, David C. "Pleasure." In Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion, 1–4. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27771-9_200096-1.

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Bennett, Andrew, and Nicholas Royle. "Pleasure." In An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory, 410–20. 6th ed. London: Routledge, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003255390-39.

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Korte, Barbara. "Introduction: Travelling Pleasure — Reading Pleasure." In English Travel Writing from Pilgrimages to Postcolonial Explorations, 1–4. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-62471-3_1.

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Johnson, Brian. "Pleasure Principle." In Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences, 3952–54. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24612-3_1411.

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Conference papers on the topic "Pleasure"

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Doi, Toshihisa, and Atsuo Murata. "Identifying Satisfaction Factors in Long-Term Use of Digital Products for Young Japanese Consumers." In 13th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2022). AHFE International, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1001857.

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The present study examined the factors leading to good UX that affect overall satisfaction in long-term product use. This finding would contribute to establishing design guidelines to enhance user experience (UX). A questionnaire was conducted to investigate overall satisfaction and impression of digital products. The four types of pleasures (physio-pleasure, socio-pleasure, psycho-pleasure, and ideo-pleasure) were considered aspects that constitute UX, and their impacts on overall product satisfaction were investigated. Moreover, what kind of product impressions lead to pleasure was also investigated. The effects of digital products' four pleasures and impressions on overall satisfaction were analyzed using multiple regression analysis. Physio-pleasure and psycho-pleasure were found to contribute to the overall satisfaction of digital products.
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Mead, Phillip G. "The Problematic Nature Between Architectural Pleasure and Well-Being." In 109th ACSA Annual Meeting Proceedings. ACSA Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.35483/acsa.am.109.46.

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This paper focuses on the problematic relationship between architectural pleasure and well-being or happiness. It attempts to update the ancient philosophical debate on the conflict between the pleasures promoted by hedonism, and the pleasures and virtues of well-being promoted by eudemonia in terms of architectural design through the lens of today’s positive psychology movement. This emerg¬ing field has identified, to a limited extent, when pleasure and well-being can conflict resulting in addiction, while at other times pleasure serves as a pump to the higher echelons of well-being, or what Aristotle calls eudaimonia. This paper attempts to identify the same for architecture. Since Vitruvius, architects have written on our preferences which appear to bring pleasure – some with empirical evidence. By taking stock of architectural writings and program elements that aim to deliver pleasure, this paper asks which of these resonate with philosophical and positive psychology findings on higher pleasures. Particularly relevant are the findings of psychologist Barbra Fredrickson’s broaden and build theory of positive emotions which sheds light on how design delight may lead to positive psychology’s promotion of higher forms of well-being such as: engagement, relationships or sense of community, meaning and achievement. The programming and design of Helsinki’s new central library by ALA Architects illustrates virtuous pleasures that serve a higher purpose in a country and city that ranks first in Gallup’s 2019 and 2020 World Happiness Reports.
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Douglas, Yellowlees, and Andrew Hargadon. "The pleasure principle." In the eleventh ACM. New York, New York, USA: ACM Press, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/336296.336354.

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Perlovsky, Leonid I., M. C. Bonniot-Cabanac, and M. Cabanac. "Curiosity and pleasure." In 2010 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN). IEEE, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ijcnn.2010.5596867.

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Jospe, Asher. "The Techno-Pleasure Society." In 10th International Conference on Humanities, Psychology and Social Sciences. Acavent, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.33422/10th.hps.2020.03.71.

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Ullrich, Anna. "The assumption of pleasure." In ACM SIGGRAPH 99 Electronic art and animation catalog. New York, New York, USA: ACM Press, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/312379.312502.

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Moujan, Carola. "From function to pleasure." In the 2011 Conference. New York, New York, USA: ACM Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2347504.2347541.

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Bardzell, Jeffrey, and Shaowen Bardzell. "Pleasure is your birthright." In the 2011 annual conference. New York, New York, USA: ACM Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1978942.1978979.

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Kerslake, M. "Designing foods for sensory pleasure." In 13th World Congress of Food Science & Technology. Les Ulis, France: EDP Sciences, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/iufost:20061093.

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Goh, Chern Kua, and Alexander Nareyek. "Pleasure propagation to reward predictors." In 2010 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG). IEEE, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/itw.2010.5593372.

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Reports on the topic "Pleasure"

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McFadden, Daniel. The New Science of Pleasure. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, January 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w18687.

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Ki, Chung-Wha, Kang-Bok Lee, and Youn-Kyung Kim. Luxury Fashion Consumption: The Interplay of Guilt and Pleasure. Ames: Iowa State University, Digital Repository, November 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.31274/itaa_proceedings-180814-98.

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Quaresma, José. Resenha do livro Henk Slager, "The Pleasure of Research". Jar-online.net, December 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.22501/jarnet.0026.

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Brett, Christopher, and Richard Hartshorn. FACS in the 21st century. AsiaChem Magazine, November 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.51167/acm00003.

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It is a great pleasure, on behalf of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, for us to greet the members of the Federation of Asian Chemical Societies, and to write this Foreword to the inaugural issue of AsiaChem, the new magazine of the FACS.
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Hirst, Julia, Rachel Wood, and Georgina Burns-O'Connell. Initiatives to support the inclusion of pleasure in sexual health and sex education work with young people An impact evaluation. Sheffield Hallam University, September 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.7190/shu-reports-170001.

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Echegoyen, Luis, Huai N. Cheng, and Bonnie Charpentier. Greetings from the American Chemical Society. AsiaChem Magazine, November 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.51167/acm00005.

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As the 2019, 2020, and 2021 presidents of the American Chemical Society (ACS), it is our pleasure to extend our well-wishes to the Federation of Asian Chemical Societies (FACS) in the inaugural issue of AsiaChem. ACS is proud to support the efforts of partner chemical societies around the world, particularly regional collaborators like FACS. The creation of this publication is a monumental step for FACS and we are pleased to be a part of this historic edition.
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van de Sand, Ron, and Jörg Reiff-Stephan. FrostByte Dataset. Technische Hochschule Wildau, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.15771/1894.

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It is with great pleasure that we announce the release of the “Frost Byte” dataset. The dataset was collected during research on fault detection and diagnosis (FDD) approaches and their transferability to heterogeneous systems of industrial refrigeration systems at the Technical University of Applied Sciences Wildau. The data collection took place between 2018 and 2019 and is intended to supplement the ASHRAE 1043-RP dataset (Comstock & Braun, 1999), which has been the only publicly available data source in this area to date. For comparison purposes, the method of data collection was chosen similarly, whereby this dataset collection was carried out using a ~ 100 kW refrigeration capacity ammonia system with plate heat exchangers. The dataset contains steady-data equally sampled from five classes: 1. Normal (fault-free operating condition) 2. Reduced Condenser Water Flow 3. Reduced Evaporator Water Flow 4. Non-Condensable Gases 5. Refrigeration Leak Each class was investigated under changing operational conditions and varying fault severity levels (SL).
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Schultz, Brian. Please Reduce Cycle Time. Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, December 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada612323.

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Pometto, II, and Paul P. Please Don't Break the China in State's Africa Bureau. Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, November 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada476431.

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Pugmire, Brian M. Psychological Operations: Will the Real Approval Authority Please Stand Up? Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, February 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada401091.

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