The general aim of the current thesis is to explore the impact of evolution on human subjective well-being. Its original contribution lies in exploring whether the kind of worries philosophers and psychologists might have when reflecting on human morality and reasoning in the light of evolutionary influences might also apply in the context of subjective well-being. Are there evolutionary influences that might produce biases, mistakes, or inauthentic judgments and evaluations of our own subjective well-being? As evolution only cares about an organism’s reproductive fitness, there seems – at least on the surface – to be room to be wrong in that domain.
Permanent link to this resource: https://doi.org/10.24384/nrsd-r321
Dézèque, Fabien
Supervisors: Boulter, Stephen; Cain, Mark
Department of History, Philosophy and CultureFaculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Year: 2022
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