{"id":834,"date":"2026-02-20T18:08:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T23:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elena.holmgren.ca\/?page_id=834"},"modified":"2026-02-20T18:08:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T23:08:28","slug":"experience-for-its-own-sake-towards-a-phenomenology-of-autotelic-experience-and-well-being-presentation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/elena.holmgren.ca\/?page_id=834","title":{"rendered":"Experience For Its Own Sake: Towards a Phenomenology of Autotelic Experience and Well-being (presentation)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u2013<em>Oct. 2025<\/em>&nbsp;\u2013 Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), Virtual&nbsp;Conference<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2013<em>Oct. 2024<\/em>&nbsp;\u2013 International Society for the Philosophy of the Sciences of the Mind (ISPSM), Virtual Conference<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2013<em>Aug. 2024<\/em>&nbsp;\u2013 The Center For Subjectivity Research, Copenhagen, Denmark<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Abstract:&nbsp;<\/em>In this talk, I argue that understanding well-being is a phenomenological problem since the inherent normativity of states of well-being can be elucidated through phenomenological description. Moreover, I provide a phenomenological account of well-being as an autotelic state wherein action is its own reward. I then show how it is at a phenomenological level of analysis that we can distinguish between distinct senses in which autotelic experience can carry normative weight. I conclude by giving a Husserl-inspired account of the intentional, temporal micro-structure of autotelic states that allows us to make a principled distinction between the distinct forms of autotelicity evinced in neutral exercises of skill and in actions that facilitate the cultivation of virtue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-black-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/elena.holmgren.ca\/?page_id=827#conference_presentations\" style=\"background-color:#e9dfd4c7\"><strong>back to Talks<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2013Oct. 2025&nbsp;\u2013 Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), Virtual&nbsp;Conference \u2013Oct. 2024&nbsp;\u2013 International Society for the Philosophy of the Sciences of the Mind (ISPSM), Virtual Conference \u2013Aug. 2024&nbsp;\u2013 The Center For Subjectivity Research, Copenhagen, Denmark Abstract:&nbsp;In this talk, I argue that understanding well-being is a phenomenological problem since the inherent normativity of states of well-being&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-834","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elena.holmgren.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elena.holmgren.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elena.holmgren.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elena.holmgren.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elena.holmgren.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elena.holmgren.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":835,"href":"https:\/\/elena.holmgren.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/834\/revisions\/835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elena.holmgren.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}