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    Life satisfaction theories are not fully adequate as accounts of happiness

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    • 1.Life satisfaction judgments are cognitively vulnerable to framing effects, mood states, and order-of-questioning biases (Schwarz & Strack, 1999).
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    • 2.A reliable theory of happiness must track welfare-relevant states, not artifacts of how questions are posed to subjects.
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    • 3.If life satisfaction reports systematically diverge from stable welfare conditions, they cannot ground a complete theory of happiness.
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    • 1.Nozick's experience machine argument shows that what we endorse upon reflection need not exhaust what genuinely constitutes our good.
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    • 2.Life satisfaction theories collapse the distinction between authentically flourishing and merely endorsing one's circumstances under adaptive preferences.
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    • 3.Adaptive preference formation, as analyzed by Elster and Sen, allows oppressed or deprived persons to sincerely affirm lives that objectively fail their interests.
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    • 1.Life satisfaction is compatible with profoundly negative emotional states like depression
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    • 2.A suffering artist might wholeheartedly affirm her life while experiencing deep suffering
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    • 3.It is counterintuitive to deem a person who is suffering deeply to be happy
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    How do we determine which theory is correct? Traditional philosophical methods of conceptual or linguistic analysis can give us some guidance, indicating that some accounts offer a better fit with the ordinary concept of happiness. Thus it has been argued that hedonism is false to the concept of happiness as we know it; the intuitions taken to support hedonism point instead to an emotional state view (Haybron 2001). And some have argued that life satisfaction is compatible with profoundly negati
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