Preference and Information

ISBN-13: 9781138278226 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 176 str.

Dan Egonsson

Opis

Standard preferentialist theories allege that a person's preferences and their satisfaction are the correct measure of well-being. In this book, Egonsson presents a critical analysis of the "full-information account of the good," which claims that only the satisfaction of rational and fully informed preferences has value for a person.

Recenzje

'Anyone concerned with questions about welfare, preferentism, or the rationality of desire will find this book fascinating. Those who come to it thinking that full information accounts are fundamentally right will quickly learn that their favored approach confronts unexpected difficulties; those who are inclined to dismiss the full information approach will quickly learn that, in the hands of a creative advocate, the theory can be developed in new ways that accommodate some profoundly difficult cases. Those who come to it with an open mind will find much to ponder in this subtle, thoughtful, and deeply imaginative book.' Fred Feldman, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, MA

Spis treści

Contents: Preface; Introduction; Analysing disappointment; The quantitative element; The qualitative element; The qualitative element criticized; Comparing examples; Truth and deliberation; Intrinsic and final preferences; Strongly intrinsic preferences; A problem of hypothetical approval; Hypothetical approval in medicine; Summary and conclusions; Bibliography; Index.

O autorze

Dan Egonsson is Reader in the Department of Philosophy, Lund University, Sweden.