Happiness and desire satisfaction

This paper develops and defends a novel version of a relatively neglected category of theory of the nature of happiness: the desire‐satisfaction theory. My account is similar in its fundamentals to Wayne Davis's theory of happiness‐as‐subjective‐desire‐satisfaction. After arguing that this is the best general way to proceed for the desire‐based approach, I develop an improved version of subjective desire satisfactionism in light of recent arguments in the happiness literature.