Abstract

This chapter examines whether _well-being_ talk is context-sensitive or pluralistic in a way that undermines theorizing about well-being. It examines recent arguments from Anna Alexandrova (2017) and Stephen Campbell (2016) who claim, respectively, that well-being talk is fundamentally context-sensitive or conceptually pluralistic in a manner hitherto neglected by well-being theorists. The chapter examines the sets of data that they provide. It concedes that some parts of well-being discourse—such as ‘doing well’ claims—are context-sensitive to some degree. However, it rejects the claim that well-being talk is fundamentally context-sensitive, or conceptually pluralistic, in a manner that undermines existing theorizing about well-being.