Filipe Nobre Faria is Researcher and Lecturer in Political Philosophy and Ethics at the Nova University of Lisbon, Portugal. He earned his PhD in Political Theory (2016) from King's College London and his Master's degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (2011) from the University of East Anglia. His main research interest lies in applying the insights of the biological sciences to issues in social and political philosophy.

Studies the impact of liberal morality on the evolutionary fitness of social groups, concluding that such a morality has a detrimental impact

Develops an evolutionary political theory of preference satisfaction that operates in the tradition of scientific realism and that constitutes a more accurate explanation of public choice

Asserts that both liberal democracy and markets have a high potential in terms of maximising the satisfaction of individual preferences

1. Introduction.- 2. From Public Choice to Evolutionary Theory.- 3. Public Choice Theory: Liberal Democracy's Shortcomings and Their Institutional Market Enhancing Solutions.- 4. The Evolutionary Framework: Multilevel Selection, Morality and Preferences.- 5. Reassessing Liberal Democracy's Shortcomings and Their Institutional Market Enhancing Solutions.- 6. The Market: Evolutionary Limits and Possibilities.- 7. Conclusion.