Interviews, podcasts, public writings
The HPS Podcast: S3 Ep 3 - Anna Alexandrova on 'Philosophy of Well-Being Science', March 2024
What can science tell us about happiness? On Humans Poscast, Sept 2022
Why public policy should not be guided by master numbers New Statesman, May 27th 2022. Preprint
What does progress mean and how can it be measured? Remarks on panel at the Bennett Institute for Public Policy 2022 Conf
Is it the government's job to make us happy? Crossing Channels Podcast Episode 7, April 2022
Cambridge Conversations: Decisions, Politics, and Expertise, Panel discussion with John Aston and Dennis Gruber February 2022
On The Science of Wellbeing, Interview with Richard Marshall of 3:16, October 2021
Can science really tell us how to live well? Cambridge University Alumni Festival 2021, video talk
Thoughtlines Podcast Episode 9 Anna Alexandrova: We are what we question. September 2021
Anna Alexandrova on Measuring Wellbeing and Alternatives to Technocracy, Hear This Idea podcast interview
How humble are great scientists and artists? Podcast with Naked Reflections
Thriving: the role of culture in defining and advancing well-being, the WHO Culture and Health webinar series 2020 –May 7th 2020
Politics of Economics: Epistemic Humility, video conversation with Erik Angner, May 2020
Cultures of Expertise and the Politics of Behavioral Science, podcast conversation with Erik Angner and Michael Kenny, April 2020
Beware of Ugly Compromises: Well-being Science in the Pursuit of Policy Influence, blogpost for the Bennett 2020 Conference
Philosophy in Three Words "Social, Value, Expertise" podcast interview with Adrian Currie, November 2019
Philosophers of Economics: Anna Alexandrova, interview at the Lake Como Philosophy of Economics Summer School 2019
"Happiness and the Truth" (Review of "The Origins of Happiness" by Clark et al.) with Ramandeep Singh, Times Literary Supplement, November 20th 2018
Sci Phi Podcast interview with Nick Zautra
Reddit Philosophy Ask Me Anything
Brains Blog Books Series, December 2017
“Does anyone know what mental health is?” OUP Blog, October 7th 2017 (Quoted here)
“The Meaning of It All (with Anna Alexandrova)” Black Goat podcast Oct 4th 2017
The Page 99 Test “Anna Alexandrova’s A Philosophy For The Science of Well-being”, Sept 20th 2017
“Who is the expert on your well-being?” Oxford University Press Blog, Sept 15 2017
Interview with Voice of Islam London Radio, “Anger and happiness”, August 21st 2017
Quoted in “Anger and hatred can make us happy says study” By Katie Silver, http://www.bbc.com/news/health-40900811
Quoted in Elle Magazine “Feeling Angry and Hateful Might make us happier people” https://www.elle.com/uk/life-and-culture/culture/news/a37793/find-happiness-anger-emotions-study/ and in Woman’s World “Getting Angry Actually Makes you Happier, Study Suggests http://www.womansworld.com/posts/how-to-be-happier-139289
Interview with BBC Bristol radio with Laura Rawlings, August 15th 2017, “Happiness and negative emotions”
Interview with TalkRadio with Julia Hartley-Brown, August 15th 2017, “Can anger make you happier?”
Mental_Elf, July 3rd 2017, “Towards a Theory of Child Well-being: Podcast Interview with Anna Alexandrova”
Forum For European Philosophy, 24th Oct 2016, “Value-Added Science: Anna Alexandrova on value judgments and measurement of well-being”
Yuga Portal, 15th Nov 2016, “Philosopher Anna Alexandrova on the moral problems of AI” (in Russian)
RBC Kuban, Dec 14th 2016, “Philosopher from Cambridge: The rich are generally happier than the poor” (in Russian)
Auxiliary Hypotheses The Blog of the British Journal of Philosophy of Science, 30th Jul 2014, “Getting Tough on Armchair Models” (with Robert Northcott)